Wow! Thanks a million sir. Following your solution advice, I right clicked the downloaded Notepad icon and selected ' open with WinRaR which showed me the SRT file with the option to exttract. I extracted it and I had my SRT file which I uploaded to my VLC video player and all was well. Problen solv...

Okay. So I right clicked the Notepad icon and went to properties. I got

Type of file: ZIP file (.zip)

Opens with: Notepad

Thanks for your reply Maybe I was not clear enough. The problem is that anytime I download an English subtitle from tghe opensubtitles site or any other site, it is downloaded and saved as a Notepad icon . This will not upload to the vlc as subtitle. When I open the Notepad icon to see what is insid...

Hi

I have a problem with subtitle downloads. When I download a file from opensubtitle or any other sub site it is now Notepad and not .SRT so I cannot upload it to the movie. I play movies in VLC. Please help someone.