Subtitles display in moview - iphone

I have a video downloaded from a link and also the .srt files for it.
How can I show the subtitles?
They are not included with in the video, instead they are given as a separate url.
From what I browsed so far MPMoviePlayerController wont support such kind of external subtitles but AVPlayer does.
Can any one please suggest a solution for it?

You have to implement the subtitle thing yourself. So you first need to parse the .srt and then display UILabels with the text at the right time.
Look at this:
How to display subtitles within MPMoviePlayerController

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It doesnot matter if I play 1 video at a time but which ever video I want must play there itself.
So the videos are placed one below other.
I have tried using mpmoviecontroller but it's drawback is it can have only one instance in the whole applicaiton So if i try to alloc 2 players in a view then the first one does not work and only one player works..
Is there any legal alternate way for the same?
MPMoviePlayerController will allow multiple instances, but only one of them can be playing their movie at any given time.
Please check the link : http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/mediaplayer/reference/MPMoviePlayerController_Class/MPMoviePlayerController/MPMoviePlayerController.html
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Look the AVPlayerDemoPlaybackViewController class from this very useful open source control released by Peter Steinberger
https://github.com/steipete/PSPushPopPressView
Thanks again Peter!

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in my iPhone app, I have an UIWebView with some simple HTML links to audio files.
When the user opens such an audio file, media player plays it an leaves my
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alt text http://img.skitch.com/20090622-rnx614kynh8faecjmuiyec159b.jpg
How do I dismiss it after the audio file was played?
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