Articles | Subtitle Formats

published: 11.03.2006 @ 04:30:36 author: Šrimfy

Subtitle Formats

Rating:

(8/10)

1. Subrip (*.srt)

quality overall +++

A running number, end- and startime down to milliseconds given for each subtitle.

Example
1 00:02:26,407 --> 00:02:31,356
Detta handlar om min storebrors
kriminella beteende och foersvinnade.

2 00:02:31,567 --> 00:02:37,164
Vi talar inte laengre om Wade. Det aer
som om han aldrig hade existerat

2. SubViewer (*.sub)

quality overall +++

This one is verry easy usable in windows media player.If the subtitelname has the same filename as the movie and is located in the same directory as where the movie is located then WMP will automaticly detect the subtitle.

Some information in the beginning about the movie. Start and end times given for each subtitle

Example
[INFORMATION]
[TITLE]xxxxxxxxxx
[AUTHOR]xxxxxxxx
[SOURCE]xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[FILEPATH]
[DELAY]0
[COMMENT]
[END INFORMATION]
[SUBTITLE]
[COLF]&HFFFFFF,[STYLE]bd,[SIZE]18,[FONT]Arial
00:00:41.00,00:00:44.40
The Age of Gods was closing.
Eternity had come to an end.

00:00:55.00,00:00:58.40
The heavens shook as the armies
of Falis, God of Light...

3. MicroDVD (*.*)

not much in use

A compact textfile with start- and endframes in brackets {} in the beginnig of every line. Linebreakes are marked by |

Example
{1025}{1110}The Age of Gods was closing.|Eternity had come to an end.
{1375}{1460}The heavens shook as the armies|of Falis, God of Light...

4. SubStationAlpha (*.ssa)

allmost not in use

Formated textfile with every subtitleline starting with ''''''''Dialogue''''''''

Example
[Script Info]
Title:
Original Script:
Original Translation:
Original Editing:
Original Timing:
Original Script Checking:
Synch Point:
Script Updated By:
Update Details:
ScriptType: v4.00
Collisions: Normal
PlayResY: 864
PlayDepth: 0
Timer: 100.0000

[V4 Styles]
Format: Name, Fontname, Fontsize, PrimaryColour, SecondaryColour, TertiaryColour, BackColour, Bold, Italic, BorderStyle, Outline, Shadow, Alignment, MarginL, MarginR, MarginV, AlphaLevel, Encoding
Style: Default,Arial,20,65535,65535,65535,-2147483640,-1,0,1,3,0,2,30,30,30,0,0

[Events]
Format: Marked, Start, End, Style, Name, MarginL, MarginR, MarginV, Effect, Text
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:02:32.85,0:02:34.33,*Default,1,0000,0000,0000,,Bio-readouts are all in the green. Looks like she''''''''s alive.

5. Sami (*.smi)

allmost not in use

Rare HTML-format with startframes given for each subtitle

Example

<TITLE>Whatever
<STYLE TYPE="text/css">

<BODY>

<SYNC Start=30886>
The Age of Gods was closing.

<SYNC Start=34037>
The heavens shook as the armies of Falis