SubTitles?

[tjceo]

When making subtiltles what is the best, most compatible format? (the format that more progams can run)?

[UncasMS]

i think SRT + SUB are widely supported by many player

[tjceo]

What´s the best program to rip subtitles (what is the program that do you use?)


Thanks

[UncasMS]

i hardly care about subtitles ( i do bilingual avis)

i did only very few movies with subtitles (godfather, traffic, episode1 to name a few) and in those cases, i went for permanent subtitles.

this, however, ist much more work than srt or sub files.

take a look here for subtitle-tools:

http://www.divx-digest.com/software/index4.html#subtitles

[khp]

IMHO the best way to rip subs, is to use DirectVobSub.

http://www.doom9.org/dvobsub.htm

Of course this does not let you edit the subs.

[Qyd]

SubRip 1.02 works just fine for me
It gives you .srt files (editable indeed), and if placed in the same directory and with the same name as the .avi file, players (beggining with mplayer2) load them automaticaly.

[tjceo]

What is better:
.str
or
.sub

(both they instantly play when are with the movie?)

[Qyd]

I do like .srt better, mainly because it's a time-based subtitle file (as oposed to frame-based, as are the MicroDVD subtitles files). If you use MicroDVD you would definitly need .sub. However, download and install Subtitle Workshop (this is the best subtitle editing/converting tool I've used).
As for the other question, I guess .srt is loaded automaticaly once you've installed SubRip on your system.