Gnome Subtitles is a subtitle editor for the GNOME desktop. It supports the most common
text-based subtitle formats and allows for subtitle editing, translation and synchronization.

Subtitle formats:

• Adobe Encore DVD
• Advanced Sub Station Alpha
• AQ Title
• DKS Subtitle Format
• Karaoke Lyrics LRC
• Karaoke Lyrics VKT
• MacSUB
• MicroDVD
• MPlayer
• MPlayer 2
• MPSub
• Panimator
• Phoenix Japanimation Society
• Power DivX
• Sofni
• SubCreator 1.x
• SubRip
• Sub Station Alpha
• SubViewer 1.0
• SubViewer 2.0
• ViPlay Subtitle File

Built-in Video Previewing

• Uses GStreamer as the backend
• Built-in subtitle display
• Video length and current position display
• Set subtitle timings based on the video position
• Automatically select video when opening subtitles

User Interface:

• WYSIWYG - What You See Is What You Get
• Subtitles displayed similar to the end result
• Bold, italic and underline styles
• Subtitle translation support
• Spell checking support
• Edit subtitle headers
• Find and Replace, including regular expressions
• Multi-level undo/redo
• Internationalization (i18n) support, currently for:
• Arabic (ar)
• Brazilian Portuguese (pt_BR)
• British English (en_GB)
• Catalan (ca)
• Dzongkha (dz)
• Finnish (fi)
• French (fr)
• Greek (el)
• Hebrew (he)
• Occitan (oc)
• Polish (pl)
• Portuguese (pt)
• Spanish (es)
• Swedish (sv)

Timing operations:

• Auto-adjust timings based on 2 correct times / synchronization points
• Shift subtitles by a specified delay (which can be based on the video)
• Convert between framerates
• Set input and output framerates
• Edit times and frames

Other features:

• User manual
• Character coding and subtitle format auto-detection (on opening)
• Allow to manually choose from multiple character codings
• Allow to choose the type of newline to be used when saving
• Relaxed subtitle reading, to read subtitles that contain errors

Gnome Subtitles is targeted to the GNU/Linux Operating System and released under the GNU General Public License (GPL).

In The Press

Linux Pratique #40

• Linux Pratique is a French magazine issued every 2 months.
• Issue #40 is of March and April, 2007.
• A 2-page article covers many things that can be done with Gnome Subtitles, as well as some basics of working with subtitle files.
• The article refers to Gnome Subtitles 0.1.
• A thumbnail version is available (Gnome Subtitles is in pages 26 and 27).

Credits

A list of people related to the project is presented in Credits.