Subviewer (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. SubViewer is a utility for adding and synchronizing subtitles to video content. It was created by David Dolinski in 1999, and offered for download on his personal website. A friend of David Dolinski created, at the same time, software to extract subtitles from DVD named SubRip. SubViewer became popular when support for it was included in the DivX media player. On August 28 2008, YouTube included support for SubViewer and SubRip, allowing existing videos to be retroactively subtitled. The SubViewer program contains a text editor and an embedded Microsoft ActiveX Media Player to help coordinate the captions. SubViewer uses text files with the .sub extension to describe timing and titling data. Alternate languages or intents can be included by creating a separate .sub file for each case.