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Subtitle Overlay

👥 803 users
📦 v1.4.0
💾 167KiB
📅 2026-05-26
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Overview

🎬 Subtitle Overlay — Custom subtitles for any video
Add your own subtitle files to any video playing in your browser. Perfect for when streaming services don't provide subtitles in your language, when studying a foreign language, or when existing subtitles need timing adjustments.

✨ Features
- Supported formats: SRT, SMI, VTT, ASS
- Search and download subtitles directly from OpenSubtitles
- Automatic character encoding detection
- Deeply customizable styling: adjust font size, family, color, and background
- Text outline and background blur to maximize readability
- Subtitle positioning: top, middle, or bottom
- Real-time timing adjustment with keyboard shortcuts
- Visual Sync Timeline panel — see every subtitle line, jump directly to any part, or click to instantly snap it to the current playback time
- Click-to-copy: simply click the on-screen subtitle to instantly copy its text to your clipboard
- Works flawlessly in fullscreen and across major streaming sites
- Auto-Restore Subtitles — Revisit a video, restore its last subtitle and sync in one click. Completely local and private.
- Interface fully localized in 9 languages

⌨️ Keyboard shortcuts
+ / − Resize subtitles
< / > Adjust timing
A / D Previous / Next subtitle
R Reset timing
H Show / hide subtitles
P Cycle position
V / B Cycle text / background color
O Cycle background opacity

🚀 How to use
1. Open the extension while a video is playing.
2. Search for subtitles or upload your own file.
3. Hover near the right edge of the page to reveal the Sync Timeline panel. Click any subtitle line to jump to that scene, or align it with the current playback time. You can also click the pin to keep the panel open.
4. Click the subtitle text on the video to instantly copy it to your clipboard.
5. Use keyboard shortcuts to fine-tune timing and size on the fly.
6. Customize the appearance to your liking in the Styling tab.

ℹ️ Note
This extension does not modify or download any video content. It simply renders your subtitle files on top of the video player in your browser.

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Privacy Practices

Not being sold to third parties, outside of the approved use cases
Not being used or transferred for purposes that are unrelated to the item's core functionality
Not being used or transferred to determine creditworthiness or for lending purposes

🔐 Security Analysis

This extension hasn't been security-scanned yet.

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