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What is the SRT format?

SRT — SubRip Subtitle

SRT is the most widely used subtitle format: a plain text file with numbered lines, start and end times and the text shown on screen.

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About the SRT format

An SRT file comes from SubRip, a 2000s program that read subtitles off DVDs. Each entry has a number, a time range such as 00:01:05,500 --> 00:01:08,000 and one or two lines of text. Simple tags for italic and bold are allowed, but no positions or fonts.

Almost every player and editor reads SRT: VLC, MPC-HC, Plex, Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve, YouTube and Facebook. Web pages are the exception, because the HTML5 video player only takes WebVTT, so SRT files are converted to VTT for the web.

Programs that open SRT

  • VLC Media Player
  • MPC-HC
  • Aegisub
  • Subtitle Edit
  • Adobe Premiere Pro
  • DaVinci Resolve
  • Any text editor

What SRT is used for

  • Subtitles for films and series
  • Captions uploaded to YouTube
  • Translations of videos
  • Subtitles for video editors

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