Importing Subtitles

Just tried import two different subtitle files I was given for a movie I encoded and neither worked. DSP said something like incompatible file format. One has an .srt extension the other a .stl extension. How can I get one of these to import? I thought DSP accepted .stl files.
Thank You
Danny

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