SubViewer

SubViewer is a file format for storing subtitles. It may have the file extension .sub.

Specification

SubViewer 1

A sample SubViewer document may look like;

[INFORMATION] <-- beginning of optional info section, closing tag required
[TITLE] Title of film.
[AUTHOR] Author of film.
[SOURCE] Arbitrary text
[FILEPATH] Arbitrary text
[DELAY]    (time in frames to delay all subtitles
[COMMENT]  Arbitrary text
[END INFORMATION]
[SUBTITLE]   <-- beginning of subtitle section, no closing tag required.
[COLF]&HFFFFFF,[SIZE]12,[FONT]Times New Roman
00:01:00.10,00:02:00.20
Oh, no.
The eggs are hatching!
<blank line>
00:02:00.30,00:03:00.40
No, never mind, I was hallucinating.

SubViewer 2

In SubViewer 2.0 format, the whole subtitle is written on one line, with line breaks indicated by [br], as follows:

00:01:00.10,00:02:00.20
Oh, no.[br]The eggs are hatching!

References

Divxstation article by Stachken