WebVTT (.vtt) Files

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WebVTT (.vtt) Files

The WebVTT format (Web Video Text Tracks) is a format intended for marking up external text track resources.

The HTML5 standard uses these files to display captions in synchronization with a video or audio material in the user's web browser.

To load WebVTT file in EZTitles you need to choose the file's code page only although, by specifications, WebVTT shall be delivered as Unicode UTF-8 encoded files:

Here is a list of the most commonly used code pages:

1250

ANSI Eastern European: Central European and Eastern European languages that use Latin script, such as Polish, Czech, Slovak, Hungarian, Slovene, Croatian, Serbian (Latin script), Romanian, Albanian, etc.

1251

ANSI Cyrillic

1252

ANSI US - Western European languages (English, Spanish, German, French, Italian, etc.)

1253

ANSI Greek

1254

ANSI Turkish

1257

ANSI Baltic, used for Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian languages

932

Japanese

936

Chinese (PRC, Singapore)

949

Korean

950

Chinese (Taiwan, Hong Kong)