SRT research

Implementations

Authoring tools

• SubRip (Windows only)
• Subtitle Editor (For UNIX/GTK+2/GStreamer)

Test cases

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Interpreters

For each interpreter, please link to a page with videos showing how the test files are rendered, or describe the results.

VLC

• 1-001 - PASS (basic one-cue)
• 1-002 - PASS (basic one-cie two-line)
• 1-003 - PASS (basic two-cue)
• 1-004 - no X1: support apparent; positioning information ignored
• 1-005 - PASS non-numeric IDs supported
• 1-006 - PASS IDs optional
• 1-007 - PASS (control)
• 1-008 - PASS out-of-order IDs ignored
• 1-009 - FAIL non-chronological titles strangely skipped
• 1-010 - FAIL non-chronological titles strangely skipped
• 1-011 - PASS simultaneous titles supported
• 1-012 - <i>, <b>, <u> supported; <font> parsed but ignored with no effect
• 1-013 - inline formatting supported in a somewhat buggy fashion; end tags implied; unknown tags ignored if matched only; known tags auto-close
• 1-014 - PASS decimal separator supported
• 1-015 - PASS unknown settings ignored
• 1-016 - Leading WEBSRT header ignored

Totem Movie Player

Does not seem to support SRT files with less than 3 cues.

• 1-004 - no support for X1.
• 1-005 - no support for non-numeric IDs
• 1-006 - no support for missing IDs
• 1-007 - PASS
• 1-008 - PASS - out of order IDs ignored
• 1-009 - FAIL - everything but ---- and ---4 is not shown
• 1-010 - FAIL - everything but ---- and ---4 is not shown
• 1-011 - FAIL - only the "P" is displayed
• 1-012 - only italics and underline work (with non-default font settings bold also works)
• 1-013 - end tags implied at end of cue; numbers following < causes < to be emitted, <b <i> gives <b followed by text in italics; unknown tags ignored

MPlayer

• 1-001 - PASS

Test cases

1. http://www.hixie.ch/tests/adhoc/srt/ (Theora test video: http://senduit.com/057437)

Existing content

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