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Type of :Subtitles

http://wiki.videolan.org/index.php/Subtitles

There are a lot of different types of external subtitle files. Most contain textual data. That is the subtitle and a timestamp at which this subtitles is to be shown. Some of these allow for additional formatting, others don't.

SubRip
SubViewer
SAMI
MicroDVD
VPlayer
Sub Script Alpha
JacoSub
MPsub

There are also subtitles which are essentially pictures instead of text. These kind of subtitles are used in DVDs, VCDs and the external VobSub files.

DVD subtitles
DVB sutitles
VobSub
CVD
OGT

There are also some fileformats to which you can add subtitles. These include:

MOV
MP4
OGM
Matroska

It is not easy to stream subtitles. DVB or DVD subtitles encapsulated in a TS MPEG stream is your best bet.

SubRip

http://wiki.videolan.org/index.php/SubRip

From VideoLAN wiki

This is the native subtitle format of the SubRip (http://zuggy.wz.cz/) (cache) program. It is one of the most used formats for subtitles.

Subtitles are formatted like:

n h1:m1:s1,d1 --> h2:m2:s2,d2
Line1
Line2
...
<empty line>

n = sequential number
h1:m1:s1,d1 = start time
h2:m2:s1,d2 = stop time

SubRip

http://www.videohelp.com/guides.php?guideid=186&howtoselect=5;20

Usual subtitle formats are *.srt (subrip), *.sub (microDVD), *.sub (subviewer), *.ssa (Sub Station Alpha), *.sub (vobsub, requires a *.idx too).

documented on: 2005.04.11