#Aegisub subtitle outlinecolor disappear portable

For comparison, I've re-created the script in ASS: The above sample is the 'official' sample included with the specs, stripped down to make a suitable 'hello world'. This is a demo ofThe Core Media Playersubtitle format And what's with 'hierarchical system'? It is true, but isn't it also completely irrelevant? Subtitles are NOT intrinsically hierarchical - forcing them to be only complicates matters.īut let's have a look at the format itself. And how is it easier to manage? Only if they mean that it's easier to avoid horribly misshapen subtitle files (you know, the kind of file that's always floating around the community and that VSFilter will happily eat). But it's still an incredibly verbose format that no sane person would try to edit by hand. Is that supposed to be a joke? It sure is human readable - compared to binary formats. But they go ahead and claim human readability and easier management.

#Aegisub subtitle outlinecolor disappear portable

The format is based on XML for many reasons: flexibility, human readability, portability, Unicode support, hierarchical system and easier management.While I can certainly understand 'flexibility' and 'portability', I don't see why you need XML to have a portable format, or Unicode support. This is what its page on CoreForge has to say: It was chosen as the default subtitle format for the Matroska multimedia container, and was the primary format of Medusa's unfortunate successor, ChronoSub. It was a XML-based subtitle format, supposed to replace the old and problematic community standard, Advanced Substation Alpha (ASS). The Universal Subtitle Format (USF) was an ambitious project.