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SubRip is a free software program for Microsoft Windows which extracts subtitles and their timings from various video formats to a text file. It is released under the GNU GPL . [ 9 ] Its subtitle format's file extension is .srt and is widely supported.
Gnome Subtitles is an open-source subtitle editor for the GNOME desktop, based on Mono. It supports the most common text-based subtitle formats, video previewing, timings synchronization and subtitle translation. Gnome Subtitles is free software released under the GNU General Public License.
"Hard" subtitles, or hard subs, are encoded into the footage, and thus become hard to remove from the video without losing video quality. "Soft" subtitles, or soft subs , are subtitles applied at playback time from a subtitle datafile, either mixed directly into the video file (.mkv, .ogm, etc.), or in a separate file (.ssa, .srt, etc.).
SE supports 250+ subtitle formats. Some of the most popular ones are SubRip, Timed Text, DFXP (Netflix standards), ITT (iTunes), SubStation Alpha, MicroDVD, SAMI, D-Cinema and BdSub. It uses the VLC media player, MPC-HC, Mpv or DirectShow to play videos. It is available in 34 languages and works on Windows and Linux.
Subtitles exist in two forms; open subtitles are 'open to all' and cannot be turned off by the viewer; closed subtitles are designed for a certain group of viewers, and can usually be turned on or off or selected by the viewer – examples being teletext pages, U.S. Closed captions (608/708), DVB Bitmap subtitles, DVD or Blu-ray subtitles.
Subtitle Composer is an open-source subtitle editor for the Linux and Microsoft Windows operating systems, based on Qt and KDE Frameworks. The project became part of KDE starting in December 2019. [ 17 ]
Windows Cyrillic + German is a modification of Windows-1251 that was used by Paratype to cover languages that use the Cyrillic script such as Russian, Bulgarian, and Serbian Cyrillic on a German language keyboard. This encoding was also used by Gamma Productions (now Unitype). [1] This encoding is supported by FontLab Studio 5. [2]
The term closed indicates that the captions are not visible until activated by the viewer, usually via the remote control or menu option. On the other hand, the terms open, burned-in, baked on, hard-coded, or simply hard indicate that the captions are visible to all viewers as they are embedded in the video.