If you need to upload subtitles with HTML5 styles, you can use other formats such as VTT, however, YouTube also limits the styles to a few, referred mostly to bold, italics among others.īelow is an example of the format and layout allowed by YouTube: YouTube emphasizes that the subtitle file must be in plain text UTF-8 format. Therefore, the style information is not recognized through markup language. YouTube only supports SRT files with basic formatting. However, YouTube has certain limitations for subtitle files, and they even have their own format called Scenarist, with an SCC extension. Some SRT files also include position and style information, some may also contain HTML5 styles, which is particularly useful for deaf or hard of hearing users. SRT file include timing information for when specific subtitles should appear. SRT extension are used by the SubRip software to store text subtitles extracted from the video file.
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