Subtitle file formats

The “DivX” brand is distinct from “DIVX” (Digital Video Express), an unrelated attempt by the now defunct U.S. retailer Circuit City to develop a video rental system requiring special discs and players[1]. The winking emoticon in the early “DivX ;-)” codec … Read More

DivX is a brand name of products created by DivX, Inc. (formerly DivXNetworks, Inc.), including the DivX Codec which has become popular due to its ability to compress lengthy video segments into small sizes while maintaining relatively high visual quality. … Read More

Aegisub – Free and open source software. A relatively new editor, focused mostly on typesetting. It works in Windows NT, 2000, XP and Vista, and with limited functionality on Linux, FreeBSD and Mac OS X. Since it has the most … Read More

The most basic SSA subtitle is one like this (modified version from an original script): [Script Info] ; This is a Sub Station Alpha v4 script. ; For Sub Station Alpha info and downloads, ; go to http://www.eswat.demon.co.uk/ ; or … Read More

SubStation Alpha (or Sub Station Alpha), abbreviated SSA, is a subtitle file format created by Kotus that allows for more advanced subtitles than the conventional SRT and similar formats. This format can be rendered with VSFilter in conjunction with a … Read More

SubRip is an optical character recognition program for Windows which rips (extracts) subtitles and their timings from video files or DVDs, recording them as a text file. Subrip is also the name of the subtitle format created by this software. … Read More