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Watch videos and add subtitles

Play your videos in Drime with speed, loop and frame-by-frame controls, add SRT or VTT subtitles, and play formats your browser does not support.

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Videos play directly in Drime. You can adjust playback, add subtitle files and play formats your browser cannot read on its own.

#Playback controls

Double-click a video to open it. In the player you can:

  • change the speed, from 0.5x to 2x;

  • loop the video;

  • jump 10 seconds back or forward, or move frame by frame;

  • go full screen with F.

To use the current image as the video's thumbnail in your Drive, choose Set this frame as a thumbnail in the player's menu.

#Add subtitles

  1. Open the video and open the Subtitles panel.

  2. Click Add a subtitle track.

  3. Choose Choose from Drime or Upload from this device.

    Choose from Drime picks an SRT or VTT file already in your Drive.

    The Subtitles panel of a demo video with one track and the Add a subtitle track button

Subtitle track added. confirms it. A video can have up to 20 tracks, and each subtitle file can be up to 2 MB.

From a track's menu, you can Edit it, download it as Download .vtt or Download .srt, or Delete it.

#Video formats and videos that do not play

Format

What happens when you open it

MP4, MOV, M4V, WebM, MKV, OGG and OGV, 3GP

Plays right away in the Drime player, as long as your browser can decode the video's codec.

AVI, WMV, TS, M2TS, MTS, VOB and other video formats

Drime plays an MP4 copy made for the web: one prepared after the upload, or one converted in your browser when you open the video, with its progress shown.

A video whose codec your browser cannot decode

Drime shows This video uses a codec your browser can't decode (…). or This video can't be played in the browser. with Download, and Convert in this browser when the conversion can run in your browser.

Convert in this browser is not offered for very large files, nor on a share link page. Converting happens on your device and can take a few minutes. Otherwise, download the video and play it in a desktop player such as VLC.

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