SubRip (.SRT) subtitles support in players
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 1.2.0 2011-06-26 1900 Nightly |
The KMPlayer 2.9.4.1435 |
BS.Player 2.30.970 |
MPlayer 1.0rc2 GUI |
DirectVobSub (aka VSFilter) 2.39.5.3 [a] |
ffdshow [a] rev. 2364 |
Windows Media Player | |
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Hide hidden data | It doesn't support SubRip subtitles |
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Font color | 99% Yes [5] | 99% Yes [5] | 99% Yes [5] | 99% Yes [5] | ||||||||||
Font face | 10/10 | 6/11 [BUG] | 8/9 [11] | 10/10 | ||||||||||
Font size | 99% Yes [BUG] | |||||||||||||
Unicode | Partial | Partial [BUG] | Partial [BUG] | Partial [BUG] | 99% Yes [0] | |||||||||
A html tag inside another html tag | 99% Yes [12] | |||||||||||||
Font tag with many parameters | ||||||||||||||
Parameters in a INCORRECT way [*] | Partial | |||||||||||||
Bold | ||||||||||||||
Italics | ||||||||||||||
Underline | ||||||||||||||
Strikethrough | ||||||||||||||
Html tags on more than one line | ||||||||||||||
Hide invalid closed html tags [F2] | Partial | |||||||||||||
Don't hide html tags NOT opened [F2] | Partial | [BUG] | [BUG] | [BUG] | Partial | |||||||||
Support valid html tags NOT closed [F2] | Broken [BUG] | Broken [BUG] | Broken [BUG] | |||||||||||
Don't hide invalid html tags NOT closed [F2] | Broken [BUG] | Broken [BUG] | Broken [BUG] | |||||||||||
Display without problems these chars: < > [**] | 99% Yes | 99% Yes [8] | 99% Yes [8] | |||||||||||
Support for "display coordinates" [F1] | , very bad [1] | |||||||||||||
Support for {\anX} | ||||||||||||||
Display correctly this special case [***] | ||||||||||||||
Display correctly overlapped subtitles | Bugged | 70% Yes [2] | Different implement. |
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Hide these tags: {\some_letters_or_numbers_or_chars} | ||||||||||||||
Hide these tags: {Y:some_letters_or_numbers_or_chars} | ||||||||||||||
Show this: {normal text} | ||||||||||||||
Show this: \text | ||||||||||||||
Display correctly a large not-breakable line | [BUG] | [BUG] | Partial [BUG] | Partial [10] | ||||||||||
Hard space: \h | ||||||||||||||
Forced line break: \N | Broken | |||||||||||||
Trim spaces at the start and at the end of the line | ||||||||||||||
Accept dots instead of commas in timestamps [F3] | ||||||||||||||
Display a sub. line when seeking in the middle of it | ||||||||||||||
Points | ||||||||||||||
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 | |||
Read subs inside a OpenDML AVI (GAB2) | [4] | Broken [9] [BUG] | [3] | |||||||||||
Read subs inside an AVI 1.0 (GAB2) | [3] | |||||||||||||
Show the name of subtitle tracks in AVI | Partial | Partial | ||||||||||||
Show the UTF-16LE name of sub. tracks in AVI | 99% Yes [BUG] | |||||||||||||
Notes (The quality refers to the readability of the text) |
Good quality | Good quality | Good quality | Bad quality | Bad quality | Bad quality | Good quality |
New lines lost sometimes [BUG] |
CUT SUBS | Almost good quality |
Bad quality, default size badly handled |
<o_o> |
[a] It isn't a player but it allow to insert subtitles in the video track on the fly for players that don't support subtitles
[*] Example: <font color=#ff0000></font> or <font color="ff0000"></font> instead of <font color="#ff0000"></font>
[**] If the parser find a > without first encounter a < (not already part of other < > couples) it is considered as text. If the parser find a < and then another < then re-consider the first as text
[***] This case: <font color="#00FF00" size="6">This could be the <font size="35">m<font color="#000000">o</font>st</font> difficult thing to implement</font>
[0] It isn't supported when subtitles are inside a Multipart OpenDML AVI
[1] [BUG] The presence of "display coordinates" cause the player to recognize timings as text
[2] Fourth text has moved at 00:00:45 of "SubRip subtitles capability tester by ale5000", this also fail: "Tester for overlapped subtitles in SubRip subtitles by ale5000"
[3] It doesn't work when it is set to "Load when needed"
[4] It cause a runtime error in the ANSI build, it is OK in the UNICODE build
[5] It is unable to display this color: #000000 (It should be black)
[8] [BUG #3229] Look at 00:00:14 of "SubRip subtitles capability tester by ale5000", I have tried many times and the behaviour is random, sometime the text doesn't appear at all and sometimes it have a random character at the bottom
[9] [BUG] Multiple subtitles tracks are mixed (when you move the video forward and backward it display a different subtitles track)
[10] It breaks the line
[11] If you change the default font of the player, it isn't used in the case a subtitle choose a font that doesn't exist on the system, example: <font face="Non-existent font">Text</font>
[12] Underline and strikethrough cannot be combined
[B1] Fail with: Subtitles starting at 00:00:00,000, Files without newlines at the end
[B2] Fail with: Only one subtitle line
[F1] Display coordinates (subtitle box pixel coordinates):
Subtitle index number
Start time --> End time X1:Position left X2:Position right Y1:Position up Y2:Position down
Text of subtitle (one or more lines)
Blank line
Example:Start time --> End time X1:Position left X2:Position right Y1:Position up Y2:Position down
Text of subtitle (one or more lines)
Blank line
1
00:00:02,001 --> 00:00:16,001 X1:000 X2:000 Y1:050 Y2:100
Let us have some! Let us have some!
00:00:02,001 --> 00:00:16,001 X1:000 X2:000 Y1:050 Y2:100
Let us have some! Let us have some!
Info:
X1: Subtitle corner X coordinate in pixels (left)
Y1: Subtitle corner Y coordinate in pixels (up)
X2: Subtitle corner X coordinate in pixels (righ)
Y2: Subtitle corner Y coordinate in pixels (down)
X1: Subtitle corner X coordinate in pixels (left)
Y1: Subtitle corner Y coordinate in pixels (up)
X2: Subtitle corner X coordinate in pixels (righ)
Y2: Subtitle corner Y coordinate in pixels (down)
[F2] HTML tags:
1) Closed tags are hidden (both supported and unsupported/invalid), closed tags: <i></i> and <gggg></gggg>2) Tags NOT opened are showed as text and ignored (both supported and unsupported/invalid), tags NOT opened: </i> and </gggg>
3) Tags NOT closed (<i> and <gggg>):
- Supported tags are hidden and they do what they should do (since some subtitles may incorrectly have html tags not closed), so this include only: <b> <i> <u> <s> <font>
- Unsupported/invalid tags are showed as text (because they aren't closed)
1
00:00:02,001 --> 00:00:16,001
<s>Both line should be strikethrough
but the wrong closing tag should be showed</b>
00:00:02,001 --> 00:00:16,001
<s>Both line should be strikethrough
but the wrong closing tag should be showed</b>
Should be displayed like this:
Both line should be strikethrough
but the wrong closing tag should be showed</b>
but the wrong closing tag should be showed</b>
Look from 00:01:00 to 00:01:08 of "SubRip subtitles capability tester by ale5000"
[F3] Accept dots instead of commas in timestamps, although the correct one is comma, some subtitles may incorrectly use dots.
Example:1
00:04:55.379 --> 00:04:58.006
Text
00:04:55.379 --> 00:04:58.006
Text