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22: 282:), it is more verbose and far harder for software to read, write and manipulate. Also, it is not easily human readable and much harder to edit "by hand" in text editors such as Notepad. For these reasons, as well as the lack of a generic cross-platform parsing/rasterizing library and mature editing programs that natively support it, the format has not gained wide acceptance. 839: 46:
of the topic and provide significant coverage of it beyond a mere trivial mention. If notability cannot be shown, the article is likely to be
98: 256:) was a CoreCodec project that attempted to create a clean, documented, powerful and easy to use subtitle file format. It is based on 70: 117: 77: 43: 867: 84: 850: 39: 55: 178: 66: 293:(starting with the 0.9.0 release) can extract the subtitle text, timing information and very restricted formatting. 805: 32: 279: 845: 91: 51: 47: 296:
Documentation for the format is now hosted by the Danish subtitling software company Titlevision
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No known media player software implements more than basic support for this format.
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for flexibility, unicode support, hierarchical system, and ease of administration.
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Below is the example USF file as presented in the v1.1 specification:
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Please help to demonstrate the notability of the topic by citing
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community, because compared to the format it aimed to replace,
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Welcometo '''TheCoreMediaPlayer'''
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The format has come under criticism, especially from the
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