| Tested on Windows XP SP3 only | Media Player Classic 6.4.9.0 ANSI & UNICODE |
Media Player Classic 6.4.9.1 rev. 86 2008-11-15 UNICODE |
MPC HomeCinema 1.3.1458.0 32 bit |
VLC 0.8.6i | VLC 1.0.3 | VLC 1.0.5 2010-01-17 0202 Nightly |
VLC 1.1.0 2010-01-24 0002 Nightly |
The KMPlayer 2.9.4.1435 |
The KMPlayer 2.9.3.1432 R2 Beta |
BS.Player 2.30.970 |
MPlayer 1.0rc2 GUI |
DirectVobSub 2.39 [a] |
ffdshow [a] rev. 2364 |
Windows Media Player |
| Hide hidden data | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | It doesn't support SubRip subtitles |
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| Font color | 99% Yes [5] | 99% Yes [5] | 99% Yes [5] | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | 99% Yes [5] | Yes | |
| Font face | Yes | Yes | 9/9 | No | No | No | Broken [7] | 8/9 [11] | No | No | Yes | Yes | ||
| Font size | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | |
| Unicode | Yes | Yes | Yes | Partial | Partial [BUG] | Partial [BUG] | Partial [BUG] | 99% Yes [0] | Partial | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | |
| A html tag inside another html tag | Yes | Yes | Yes | N/A | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | N/A | Yes | Yes | |
| Font tag with many parameters | Yes | Yes | Yes | N/A | Yes | Yes | Yes | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | Yes | Yes | |
| Parameters in a INCORRECT way [*] | Yes | Yes | Yes | N/A | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | N/A | N/A | Yes | Partial | |
| Bold | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | |
| Italics | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | |
| Underline | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | |
| Strikethrough | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | |||||||
| Html tags on more than one line | Yes | Yes | Yes | N/A | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | N/A | Yes | Yes | |
| Hide closed html tags [F2] | No | No | No | Partial | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | |
| Don't hide html tags NOT opened [F2] | Partial | No [BUG] | No [BUG] | No [BUG] | No | |||||||||
| Support valid html tags NOT closed [F2] | Yes | Broken [BUG] | Broken [BUG] | Broken [BUG] | N/A | |||||||||
| Don't hide invalid html tags NOT closed [F2] | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Broken [BUG] | Broken [BUG] | Broken [BUG] | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | |
| Display without problems these chars: < > [**] | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | 99% Yes | 99% Yes [8] | 99% Yes [8] | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | |
| Support for "display coordinates" [F1] | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No, very bad [1] | No, very bad [1] | No | No | No | No | |
| Support for {\anX} | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | |
| Display correctly this special case [***] | No | No | No | N/A | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | N/A | N/A | N/A | No | No | |
| Display correctly overlapped subtitles | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Bugged | Bugged | No | No | 99% Yes [2] | Different implement. |
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| Hide these tags: {\some_letters_or_numbers_or_chars} | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | |
| Hide these tags: {Y:some_letters_or_numbers_or_chars} | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | |||||||
| Show this: {normal text} | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | |||||||
| Show this: \text | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||||||||
| Display correctly a large not-breakable line | Yes | No [6] [BUG] | No [6] [BUG] | No [6] [BUG] | Partial [10] | |||||||||
| Hard space: \h | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | |||||||
| Forced line break: \N | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | |||||||
| Trim spaces at the start and at the end of the line | Yes | No | No | No | No | |||||||||
| Accept dots instead of commas in timestamps [F3] | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||||||||
| Points | 8.5/18 | 8/19 | 1/19 | 16.8/20 | 15.25/25 | -1/31 | ||||||||
| Bugs detected by SubRip subtitles bug tester | 0/5 | 0/5 | 0/5 | 2/5 [B1] | 0/5 | 0/5 | 0/5 | 1/5 [B2] | 0/5 | 0/5 | 0/5 | N/A | ||
| Read subs inside a OpenDML AVI (GAB2) | Yes [4] | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Broken [9] [BUG] | No | No | Yes [3] | Yes | No | |
| Read subs inside a AVI 1.0 (GAB2) | ||||||||||||||
| Show the names of the subtitle tracks in a AVI | Yes | Partial | Partial | 99% Yes [BUG] | No | Yes [3] | Yes | No | ||||||
| Notes (The quality is referred to the readability of the text) |
Good quality | Good quality | Good quality | Bad quality | Bad quality | Bad quality | Bad quality, No subtitles autoload [BUG] |
New lines lost sometimes [BUG] | CUT SUBS | Almost good quality |
Bad quality, default size badly handled |
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