SubRip is a free software program for Microsoft Windows which extracts subtitles and their timings from various video formats to a text file. It is released under the GNU GPL. Its subtitle format's file extension is .srt and is widely supported. Each .srt file is a human-readable file format where the subtitles are stored sequentially along with the timing information. Most subtitles distributed on the Internet are in this format. SubRip software Using optical character recognition, SubRip can extract from live video, video files and DVDs, then record the extracted subtitles and timings as a Subrip format text file. It can optionally save the recognized subtitles as bitmaps for later subtraction (erasure) from the source video. In practice, SubRip is configured with the correct codec for the video source, then trained by the user on the specific text area, fonts, styles, colors and video processing requirements to recognize subtitles. After trial and fine tuning, SubRip can automatically extract subtitles for the whole video source file during its playback. SubRip records the beginning and end times and text for each subtitle in the output text .srt file. SubRip uses AviSynth to extract video frames from source video, and can rip subtitles from all video files supported by that program. SubRip file format The SubRip file format is described on the Matroska multimedia container format website as "perhaps the most basic of all subtitle formats." SubRip (SubRip Text) files are named with the extension .srt, and contain formatted lines of plain text in groups separated by a blank line. Subtitles are numbered sequentially, starting at 1. The timecode format used is hours:minutes:seconds,milliseconds with time units fixed to two zero-padded digits and fractions fixed to three zero-padded digits (00:00:00,000). The fractional separator used is the comma, since the program was written in France. A numeric counter identifying each sequential subtitle The time that the subtitle should appear on the screen, followed by --> and the time it should disappear Subtitle text itself on one or more lines A blank line containing no text, indicating the end of this subtitle Example for Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones: 1 00:02:16,612 --> 00:02:19,376 Senator, we're making our final approach into Coruscant. 2 00:02:19,482 --> 00:02:21,609 Very good, Lieutenant. 3 00:03:13,336 --> 00:03:15,167 We made it. 4 00:03:18,608 --> 00:03:20,371 I guess I was wrong. 5 00:03:20,476 --> 00:03:22,671 There was no danger