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At least for English, those "fansubs" aren't typically burnt into the movie*, but ride along in the video container (MP4/MKV) as subtitle streams. They can typ
by simsla 1y ago
At least for English, those "fansubs" aren't typically burnt into the movie*, but ride along in the video container (MP4/MKV) as subtitle streams. They can typically be extracted as SRT files (plain text with sentence level timestamps).
*Although it used to be more common for AVI files in the olden days.
- ethbr1 1y agoflashbacks of trying to track down subs sync’d to a specific release
- Maken 1y agoSRT is ancient. Nowadays everyone uses ASS subtitles which can be randomly styled.
- simsla 1y agoIn general? In the past I've known ASS to be used a lot for things like anime, but less for live action shows.
- Maken 1y agoI have also found them inside mkvs as the subtitle track. I think SRT was the default because most content was ripped from DVD/BD, but now most of the content is from streaming sources and you need to convert the subtitles anyway.
- conradev 1y agoWebVTT (a SubRip successor) is probably more widely used than ASS
- Maken 1y agoBy legit providers, probably.