Free and common subtitles format, expected to serve as the basis for the new WebSRT standard [1]. It consists of:
- A number indicating the which subtitle it is in the sequence.
- The time that the subtitle should appear on the screen, given in hours:minutes:seconds,milliseconds.
- The text of the subtitle itself.
- A blank line.
Formatting is permitted using <b>bold</b>, <i>italic</i>, and <u>underline</u> tags.
Example:
1 00:00:20,000 --> 00:00:25,000 This is the first subtitle 2 00:00:25,200 --> 00:00:30,200 in the video sequence.
Notes
[1] See http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/websrt.html. The format specification is originally derived from the SubRip program, which "rips" hardcoded subtitles from videos using OCR. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SubRip for further web links.

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