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by Maken 336 days ago
SRT is ancient. Nowadays everyone uses ASS subtitles which can be randomly styled.
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simsla 336 days ago
In general? In the past I've known ASS to be used a lot for things like anime, but less for live action shows.
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Maken 336 days ago
I have also found them inside mkvs as the subtitle track. I think SRT was the default because most content was ripped from DVD/BD, but now most of the content is from streaming sources and you need to convert the subtitles anyway.
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conradev 336 days ago
WebVTT (a SubRip successor) is probably more widely used than ASS
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Maken 336 days ago
By legit providers, probably.
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