One of the common format for movies and tv series nowadays is mkv. This type of file has some special characteristic regarding the subtitle. It's subtitle some kind of half soft and half hard-subbed. If you're using Media Player Classic (just like me), you still can turn on and off the subtitle but you can't find the subtitle file (eg srt, sub etc.) That's why I said half soft and hard-subbed. Normally, for avi file, if you have soft-subbed file, you can turn on and off the subtitle but for hard-subbed avi file, you can't. So if you have hard-subbed file with foreign language which you don't understand, you have to bear with it (it's some sort of annoying).
For mkv files, the half soft and hard-subbed is called MUX. The uploader muxing the subtitle during the convertion process from any type of file (normally avi) to mkv. You don't have to download another subtitle file but you still can turn it on and off. I can say it's quite convenient if you have downloaded movie with subtitle in foreign language because you can still turn it off. And still, you can find another subtitle that you can understand and play the mkv movie with it.
How do you turn it on and off? I guess I'll tell you later in my next post.
