# 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.

Updated: 2026-10-20  
Source: https://drime.cloud/support/drive/watch-videos-and-add-subtitles

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](https://drime.cloud/media/01M59FNK8RDS1E0YEVS04V3EF0/6132158eeeb5-web-video-subtitles-panel.png)

**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.