- From: Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 7 Aug 2010 17:24:35 +1000
On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 1:50 AM, Philip J?genstedt <philipj at opera.com> wrote: > Snipping liberally... > > On Thu, 05 Aug 2010 17:01:47 +0200, Silvia Pfeiffer < > silviapfeiffer1 at gmail.com> wrote: > > CONSIDERING EXISTING FORMATS >> > > Note that the subtitling community has traditionally been using the Subrip >> (srt) or SubViewer (sub) formats as a simple format and SubStation alpha >> (ssa/ass) as the comprehensive format. Aegisub, the successor of >> SubStation >> Alpha, is still the most popular subtitling software and ASS is the >> currently dominant format. However, even this community is right now >> developing a new format called AS6. This shows that the subtitling >> community >> also hasn't really converged on a "best" format yet. >> > > Maybe it's just me, but I've very rarely seen ASS in the wild. In fact, > almost all fansubbed videos I've seen were hardsubbed (subtitles encoded as > part of the video), presumably because the subbers thought their choice of > font and colors was really important. Perhaps they were still using ASS or > similar to author the subtitles, I don't know. (In my own limited fansubbing > efforts, SRT was quite sufficient.) Actually, many of the subtitles on http://www.opensubtitles.org/ are in .ssa format. It's not dominant next to .sub and .srt, but it's the one more complex format that is used and very actively supported in Matroska. Cheers, Silvia. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/attachments/20100807/c1cc9b00/attachment.htm>
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