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SLider3
23rd October 2003, 23:47
Hi :)

I want to make a program to read and write subtitles in .ssa format but i need to know well the internal structure. I made some some .ssa subtitles with diferent programs and sometimes their header have many differences. So can someone explain me what each line means? (yeah...i know some lines are very intuitive but others aren't mainly because some programs write some lines and other programs write other lines).

Thanks ;)

Atamido
24th October 2003, 00:07
Here (http://moodub.free.fr/ass-specs.doc) is the link in the Matroska specs to a copy of the SSA/ASS specs. You may want to look at USF also.

SLider3
24th October 2003, 09:41
Thanks Pamel, that is everything i need. :D

ChristianHJW
24th October 2003, 10:43
Just be aware that SSA may never be supportable on hardware devices, while USF may be supported, and can offer a lot of the SSA features also ( not all ) .... and while i am writing this Mosu has promised me to look into USF muxing in mkvmerge :) ...