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SubRip
SubRip is a free software program for Windows which
SubRip
"rips" (extracts) subtitles and their timings from video. It is
free software, released under the GNU GPL. SubRip is also Developer(s) Brain, Zuggy[1]
the name of the widely used and broadly compatible subtitle Stable release 1.57.1 /
text file format created by this software. November 14, 2018[2]
Written in Delphi
Operating system Microsoft Windows
Contents Available in English

SubRip software Type Subtitle editor

Formatting License GPL[1]
Compatibility Website zuggy.wz.cz (http://zu
WebVTT ggy.wz.cz)
Text encoding
See also
Notes
References
External links

SubRip software
Using optical character recognition, SubRip can extract from live video, video files and DVDs, then
record the extracted subtitles and timings as a Subrip format text file.[3] It can optionally save the
recognized subtitles as bitmaps for later subtraction (erasure) from the source video.[4][5]

In practice, SubRip is configured with the correct codec for the video source, then trained by the user
on the specific text area, fonts, styles,[6] colors and video processing requirements[7] to recognize
subtitles. After trial and fine tuning, SubRip can automatically extract subtitles for the whole video
source file during its playback. SubRip records the beginning and end times and text for each subtitle
in the output text .srt file.[8]

SubRip uses AviSynth to extract video frames from source video, and can rip subtitles from all video
files supported by that program.

The SubRip file format, as reported on the Matroska multimedia container format website, is
"perhaps the most basic of all subtitle formats."[9] SubRip (SubRip Text) files are named with the
extension .srt, and contain formatted lines of plain text in groups separated by a blank line. Subtitles
are numbered sequentially, starting at 1. The timecode format used is

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hours:minutes:seconds,milliseconds with time units fixed to two zero-padded digits and

fractions fixed to three zero-padded digits (00:00:00,000). The fractional separator used is the
comma, since the program was written in France.

1. A numeric counter identifying each sequential subtitle

2. The time that the subtitle should appear on the screen, followed by --> and the time it should
disappear
3. Subtitle text itself on one or more lines
4. A blank line containing no text, indicating the end of this subtitle[9]
Example:

168
00:20:41,150 --> 00:20:45,109
- How did he do that?
- Made him an offer he couldn't refuse.

Formatting
Unofficially the format has very basic text formatting, which can be either interpreted or passed
through for rendering depending on the processing application. Formatting is derived from HTML
tags for bold, italic, underline and color:[10]

Bold – <b> ... </b> or {b} ... {/b}

Italic – <i> ... </i> or {i} ... {/i}
Underline – <u> ... </u> or {u} ... {/u}
Font color – <font color="color name or #code"> ... </font> (as in HTML)
Nested tags are allowed; some implementations prefer whole-line formatting only.

Compatibility
The SubRip .srt file format is supported by most software video players listed in Comparison of
video player software such as VLC and Media Player Classic Home Cinema. For Windows software
video players that do not support subtitle playback directly, the VSFilter DirectX filter displays
SubRip and other subtitle formats.[11] The SubRip format is supported directly by many subtitle
creation/editing tools,[12] and some hardware home media players.[13][14][15][16][17] In August 2008,
YouTube added subtitle support to its Flash video player under the "Closed Captioning" option -
content producers can upload subtitles in SubRip format.[18][19]

WebVTT
A format originally called WebSRT (Web Subtitle Resource Tracks) was as of October 2010 being
specified by the Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group for the proposed HTML5
<track> element. It shared the .srt file extension and was "broadly based on" (parts of) the SubRip
format, but was not fully compatible with SubRip.[20][21] The prospective format was later renamed
WebVTT (Web Video Text Track).[22][23] Google's Chrome and Microsoft's Internet Explorer 10
browsers were the first to support <track> tags with WebVTT files for HTML5 videos. Mozilla Firefox

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implemented WebVTT in its nightly builds (Firefox 24), and as of Firefox 31 (July 24, 2014), Mozilla
enabled WebVTT on Firefox by default.[24] The feature had to be enabled in Firefox by going to the
"about:config" page and setting the value of "media.webvtt.enabled" to true.[25] YouTube began
supporting WebVTT in April, 2013.[26]

Text encoding
SubRip's default output encoding is configured as Windows-1252. However, output options are also
given for many Windows code pages as well Unicode encodings, such as UTF-8 and UTF-16, with or
without Byte Order Mark (BOM). Therefore, there's no de facto character encoding standard for .srt
files, which means that any SubRip file parser must attempt to use Charset detection. Unicode Byte
Order Mark (BOM) are typically used to aid detection.

See also
Subtitles
Closed Captioning
Timed Text
Comparison of video player software, subtitle ability
Avidemux
List of free television software
MicroDVD
SubStation Alpha
Universal Subtitle Format
DirectVobSub is able to extract subtitles from a DVD without first extracting the files from it.
Time synced lyrics a related format for songs

Notes
1. Zuggy, DVD, November 6, 2006.
2. SubRip Download on SourceForge (https://sourceforge.net/projects/subrip/files/subrip/SubRip%2
01.56.1/)
3. Thaureaux 2007, pp. 131–134
4. Zuggy, News, entry dated May 28, 2005.
5. Thaureaux 2007, p. 132
6. Thaureaux 2007, p. 136
7. Zuggy, Guide.
8. Thaureaux 2007, p. 137
9. "SRT Subtitles" (http://www.matroska.org/technical/specs/subtitles/srt.html). matroska.org.
CoreCodec Inc. Retrieved 2010-08-19.
10. SubRip (.SRT) subtitles support in players (http://ale5000.altervista.org/subtitles.htm) –
ale5000.altervista.org
11. 陈波, 杨涛 (2006). 实用工具软件玩家攻略
(https://books.google.com/books?id=FjF2XragdYYC&pg
=PA75#v=onepage&q). 清华大学出版社. pp. 75–76. ISBN 978-7-302-11994-4. Retrieved
2010-09-11.

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12. Martin, Chris (Dec 29, 2009). "15 best subtitle tools" (http://www.aboutonlinetips.com/best-subtitle-
editor-tools/). aboutonlinetips.com; Binary Head. All apps listed support SubRip(SRT), but the
article is specific about 7 of 15.
13. Staff (September 2003). "A DivX Player for the Living Room" (Neuston Maestro DVX-1201) (http
s://books.google.com/books?id=XeoDAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PT67&dq=subrip&pg=PT67#v=onepage&
q&f=false). Review. hardwaremag.com; Singapore HWM.
14. tokig (July 13, 2003). "Review of KiSS DP-500 – Playback" (http://www.nordichardware.com/test-l
ab/42-multimedia/11055-kiss-dp-500.html?start=3#content). nordichardware.com; Nordic
Hardware.
15. Argosy Media Player HV335T HDD(HD1080p) Product page (http://www.argosy.com.tw/product-d
etial.php?prod_id=154) Archived (https://web.archive.org/web/20100208224243/http://www.argos
y.com.tw/product-detial.php?prod_id=154) 2010-02-08 at the Wayback Machine argosy.com;
Argosy, 2009.
16. Cericola, Rachel (2009-12-08). Western Digital WD TV Live HD Media Player (http://www.bigpictu
rebigsound.com/Western-Digital-WD-TV-Live-HD-Media-Player.shtml) Review.
bigpicturebigsound.com; Big Picture Big Sound.
17. Suerte Felipe, Carlo (February 16, 2009). Get stylish with Samsung DVD-F1080 (http://www.mb.c
om.ph/node/196529). Manila Bulletin Publications. Retrieved 2010-08-19.
18. Chisholm and May: p. 82.
19. "New Captions Feature For Videos" (https://youtube.googleblog.com/2008/08/new-captions-featur
e-for-videos.html). Official YouTube Blog. August 28, 2008.
20. Understanding WebSRT format (http://www.delphiki.com/websrt/)
21. WebSRT (https://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/websrt.html), from the WHATWG
HTML draft specification, retrieved 2010-10-14
22. Kennedy, Antony; de Leon, Inayaili (2011). Pro CSS for High Traffic Websites (https://books.googl
e.com/books?id=9A6w3ZBDtysC&pg=PA168#v=onepage&f=false). Apress. ISBN 978-1-4302-
3288-9.
23. Pfeiffer, Silvia (June 27, 2011). "Recent developments around WebVTT" (http://blog.gingertech.ne
t/2011/06/27/recent-developments-around-webvtt/).
24. "Firefox 31 Release Notes" (https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/mobile/31.0/releasenotes/).
25. "Implement the track element" (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=629350).
26. "Caption File - YouTube Help" (https://support.google.com/youtube/bin/answer.py?answer=27346
98&topic=3014331&ctx=topic).

References
Thaureaux, Thierry (2007). DivX - Copiez vos vidéos sur CD (Nouvelle édition) (https://books.goo
gle.com/books?id=f2kmYyTs0lgC&lpg=PP1&dq=divx%20subrip&pg=PT126) (in French).
Herblain, FR: Editions ENI. pp. 133–136. ISBN 978-2-7460-3812-7.
Zuggy, T.V. "SubRip home" (http://zuggy.wz.cz). zuggy.wz.cz. Retrieved 2010-08-19.
Zuggy, T.V (December 8, 2005). "SubRip 1.20/1.50b – DVD subtitles ripper" (http://zuggy.wz.cz/dv
d.php). zuggy.wz.cz. Retrieved 2010-01-10. (Software release page.)
Zuggy, T.V (August 1, 2007). "News page" (http://zuggy.wz.cz/news.php). zuggy.wz.cz. Retrieved
2009-07-02.
Zuggy, T.V (June 17, 2005). "Guide: Ripping subtitles from video files using SubRip" (http://zuggy.
wz.cz/redir.php?co=101). zuggy.wz.cz. Retrieved 2009-07-02.
Xiao, Han; Wang, Xiaojie (March 27, 2009). "Constructing Parallel Corpus from Movie Subtitles"
(https://books.google.com/books?id=EqlV6gBmii8C&lpg=PA330&dq=subrip%20subtitles&pg=PA3
30). In Li, Wenjie; Mollá-Aliod, Diego (eds.). Proc. Int. Conf. on Computer Processing of Oriental
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Languages. Hong Kong: Springer. pp. 329–336. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-00831-3_32 (https://doi.or

g/10.1007%2F978-3-642-00831-3_32). Retrieved 2009-07-02.
Chisholm, Wendy; May, Matt (2008). Universal design for Web applications (https://books.google.
com/books?id=uQFhpLdSBOIC&lpg=PA82&dq=subrip%20subtitles%20youtube&pg=PA82#v=one
page&q). O'Reilly Media. ISBN 978-0-596-51873-8. Retrieved 2010-06-28.
Bruegmann, Ulrich (2006). Divx R.t.f.m. – Divx 6 (https://books.google.com/books?id=_4j9S7hyiW
kC&pg=PA303&dq=subrip+subtitles&q=subrip) (in German). Lulu.com. ISBN 978-1-84728-676-5.

External links
Official website (http://zuggy.wz.cz/)
".SRT SubRip file format specification" (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=470941#post4
70941). Doom9. Retrieved April 7, 2004. "Derived from the SubRip source code"
WebVTT Standard (http://dev.w3.org/html5/webvtt/)
Mozilla's developer page concerning WebVTT implementation (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-U
S/docs/Web/API/Web_Video_Text_Tracks_Format)
SubRip (.SRT) subtitle features and support in players (http://ale5000.altervista.org/subtitles.htm)
– comparison of .srt feature handling in a range of common players
VTTandSRT (http://www.blueman.name/Delphi.php), small French free software to convert a .SRT
subtitles file into a .VTT subtitles file (and conversely).

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