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<!DOCTYPE html> <html class="client-nojs" lang="en" dir="ltr"> <head> <meta charset="UTF-8"/> <title>Category:Subtitle Formats - MultimediaWiki</title> <script>document.documentElement.className="client-js";RLCONF={"wgBreakFrames":false,"wgSeparatorTransformTable":["",""],"wgDigitTransformTable":["",""],"wgDefaultDateFormat":"dmy","wgMonthNames":["","January","February","March","April","May","June","July","August","September","October","November","December"],"wgRequestId":"fdaf9cfd6b91f14d79039130","wgCSPNonce":false,"wgCanonicalNamespace":"Category","wgCanonicalSpecialPageName":false,"wgNamespaceNumber":14,"wgPageName":"Category:Subtitle_Formats","wgTitle":"Subtitle Formats","wgCurRevisionId":8207,"wgRevisionId":8207,"wgArticleId":1668,"wgIsArticle":true,"wgIsRedirect":false,"wgAction":"view","wgUserName":null,"wgUserGroups":["*"],"wgCategories":[],"wgPageContentLanguage":"en","wgPageContentModel":"wikitext","wgRelevantPageName":"Category:Subtitle_Formats","wgRelevantArticleId":1668,"wgIsProbablyEditable":false,"wgRelevantPageIsProbablyEditable":false,"wgRestrictionEdit":[],"wgRestrictionMove":[],"wgVector2022PreviewPages":[]};RLSTATE={ "site.styles":"ready","user.styles":"ready","user":"ready","user.options":"loading","mediawiki.action.styles":"ready","mediawiki.helplink":"ready","skins.vector.styles.legacy":"ready"};RLPAGEMODULES=["site","mediawiki.page.ready","skins.vector.legacy.js"];</script> <script>(RLQ=window.RLQ||[]).push(function(){mw.loader.implement("user.options@12s5i",function($,jQuery,require,module){mw.user.tokens.set({"patrolToken":"+\\","watchToken":"+\\","csrfToken":"+\\"});});});</script> <link rel="stylesheet" href="/load.php?lang=en&modules=mediawiki.action.styles%7Cmediawiki.helplink%7Cskins.vector.styles.legacy&only=styles&skin=vector"/> <script async="" src="/load.php?lang=en&modules=startup&only=scripts&raw=1&skin=vector"></script> <meta name="generator" content="MediaWiki 1.39.5"/> <meta name="format-detection" content="telephone=no"/> <meta name="viewport" content="width=1000"/> <link rel="icon" href="/favicon.ico"/> <link rel="search" type="application/opensearchdescription+xml" href="/opensearch_desc.php" title="MultimediaWiki (en)"/> <link rel="EditURI" type="application/rsd+xml" href="https://wiki.multimedia.cx/api.php?action=rsd"/> <link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" title="MultimediaWiki Atom feed" href="/index.php?title=Special:RecentChanges&feed=atom"/> </head> <body class="mediawiki ltr sitedir-ltr mw-hide-empty-elt ns-14 ns-subject page-Category_Subtitle_Formats rootpage-Category_Subtitle_Formats skin-vector action-view skin-vector-legacy vector-feature-language-in-header-enabled vector-feature-language-in-main-page-header-disabled vector-feature-language-alert-in-sidebar-disabled vector-feature-sticky-header-disabled vector-feature-sticky-header-edit-disabled vector-feature-table-of-contents-disabled vector-feature-visual-enhancement-next-disabled"><div id="mw-page-base" class="noprint"></div> <div id="mw-head-base" class="noprint"></div> <div id="content" class="mw-body" role="main"> <a id="top"></a> <div id="siteNotice"></div> <div class="mw-indicators"> <div id="mw-indicator-mw-helplink" class="mw-indicator"><a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Categories" target="_blank" class="mw-helplink">Help</a></div> </div> <h1 id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading mw-first-heading"><span class="mw-page-title-namespace">Category</span><span class="mw-page-title-separator">:</span><span class="mw-page-title-main">Subtitle Formats</span></h1> <div id="bodyContent" class="vector-body"> <div id="siteSub" class="noprint">From MultimediaWiki</div> <div id="contentSub"></div> <div id="contentSub2"></div> <div id="jump-to-nav"></div> <a class="mw-jump-link" href="#mw-head">Jump to navigation</a> <a class="mw-jump-link" href="#searchInput">Jump to search</a> <div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content mw-content-ltr" lang="en" dir="ltr"><div class="mw-parser-output"><p>Subtitles can be categorized by the following criteria: script- or picture-based; embedded into containers like <a href="/index.php/AVI" class="mw-redirect" title="AVI">AVI</a>, <a href="/index.php/Matroska" title="Matroska">Matroska</a> and so on or in one or more separate files. </p><p>The simple script-based subtitle formats only give a time position and the text which should be shown. More advanced formats also know styling (color, font, font size and so on) and positioning (visual, like centered bottom). </p><p>The best known picture-based subtitle format is the DVD subpicture format. The picture-based subtitles are good for non-computer-based environments like DVD players, TV and videoconferencing. </p><p>Samples: <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://samples.mplayerhq.hu/sub/">http://samples.mplayerhq.hu/sub/</a> </p>    </div><div class="mw-category-generated" lang="en" dir="ltr"><div id="mw-pages"> <h2>Pages in category "Subtitle Formats"</h2> <p>The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 total. </p><div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr"><div class="mw-category mw-category-columns"><div class="mw-category-group"><h3>C</h3> <ul><li><a href="/index.php/CMML" title="CMML">CMML</a></li> <li><a href="/index.php/CVD" title="CVD">CVD</a></li></ul></div><div class="mw-category-group"><h3>D</h3> <ul><li><a href="/index.php/DVD_subtitles" title="DVD subtitles">DVD subtitles</a></li> <li><a href="/index.php/DXFP" title="DXFP">DXFP</a></li></ul></div><div class="mw-category-group"><h3>J</h3> <ul><li><a href="/index.php/JACOsub" title="JACOsub">JACOsub</a></li></ul></div><div class="mw-category-group"><h3>K</h3> <ul><li><a href="/index.php/Kate" title="Kate">Kate</a></li></ul></div><div class="mw-category-group"><h3>M</h3> <ul><li><a href="/index.php/MicroDVD" title="MicroDVD">MicroDVD</a></li> <li><a href="/index.php/MPEG" title="MPEG">MPEG</a></li> <li><a href="/index.php/MPL2" title="MPL2">MPL2</a></li></ul></div><div class="mw-category-group"><h3>P</h3> <ul><li><a href="/index.php/Philips_Overlay_Graphics_Text" title="Philips Overlay Graphics Text">Philips Overlay Graphics Text</a></li></ul></div><div class="mw-category-group"><h3>S</h3> <ul><li><a href="/index.php/STL" title="STL">STL</a></li> <li><a href="/index.php/SubRip" title="SubRip">SubRip</a></li> <li><a href="/index.php/SubStation_Alpha" title="SubStation Alpha">SubStation Alpha</a></li></ul></div><div class="mw-category-group"><h3>T</h3> <ul><li><a href="/index.php/TMPlayer" title="TMPlayer">TMPlayer</a></li></ul></div><div class="mw-category-group"><h3>U</h3> <ul><li><a href="/index.php/Universal_Subtitle_Format" title="Universal Subtitle Format">Universal Subtitle Format</a></li></ul></div><div class="mw-category-group"><h3>V</h3> <ul><li><a href="/index.php/VOBsub" title="VOBsub">VOBsub</a></li></ul></div><div class="mw-category-group"><h3>W</h3> <ul><li><a href="/index.php/WebVTT" title="WebVTT">WebVTT</a></li></ul></div><div class="mw-category-group"><h3>X</h3> <ul><li><a href="/index.php/XSUB" title="XSUB">XSUB</a></li></ul></div></div></div> </div></div> <div class="printfooter" data-nosnippet="">Retrieved from "<a dir="ltr" href="https://wiki.multimedia.cx/index.php?title=Category:Subtitle_Formats&oldid=8207">https://wiki.multimedia.cx/index.php?title=Category:Subtitle_Formats&oldid=8207</a>"</div></div> <div id="catlinks" class="catlinks catlinks-allhidden" data-mw="interface"></div> </div> </div> <div id="mw-navigation"> <h2>Navigation menu</h2> <div id="mw-head"> <nav id="p-personal" class="vector-menu mw-portlet mw-portlet-personal vector-user-menu-legacy" aria-labelledby="p-personal-label" role="navigation" > <h3 id="p-personal-label" class="vector-menu-heading " > <span class="vector-menu-heading-label">Personal tools</span> </h3> <div class="vector-menu-content"> <ul class="vector-menu-content-list"><li id="pt-login" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/index.php?title=Special:UserLogin&returnto=Category%3ASubtitle+Formats" title="You are encouraged to log in; 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