How many times have you been in the position of watching a movie with poor subtitle - whether it was not well synchronized, badly translated, or it used bad grammar?
Subtitles can be manually corrected by opening them in an editor (such as Notepad), but this takes a lot of time and effort. In the end, it's just not worth it.
VobSub is a small multimedia tool that's designed to help you easily fix subtitles, but also integrate them into a video file.
The installation package actually placedstwo different applications on the computer - SubMux and SubResync.
Both of them have a standard interface, and little features, but they are both highly practical.
SubMux lets you combine a video file and a subtitle file (with a certain type of format) by drag-and-drop, and the result will be of the same video file but with the "built-in" subtitle.
This is particularly practical if you're used to burning two files on a CD, instead of one - the movie AND its subtitle.
SubResync allows you to correct subtitles, by changing their position or content (including colors, font, and size).
Due to the fact that it's such a small application, VobSub takes up minimum CPU resources. The integration of subtitles into videos is extremely fast, and we haven't encountered major issues.
The first time we tried to merge a video and a subtitle, SubMux refused to load the subtitle. This continued to happen until we changed it.
In conclusion, everyone should have a copy of VobSub on their computer, especially if they consider themselves experts in organizing their multimedia files. It's free, after all!