MPEG-4 Part 17

<h2 id="supporting-implementations">Supporting implementations</h2>
<p><a href="/facts/QuickTime/rA3GQp2j">QuickTime Pro</a> and <a href="/facts/MP4Box/zFpDFDWg">MP4Box</a> can create or produce these subtitle streams out of various subtitle input formats. MP4Box uses the <a href="/facts/FourCC/4AxE2jJa">FourCC</a> tx3g for MPEG-4 Timed Text because of its inherently higher compatibility. MPEG-4 Timed Text is heavily based on <a href="/facts/XML/clNgUfWk">XML</a> semantics.
</p><p>On October 7, 2005, <a href="/facts/VideoLAN/2pKPhseQ">VideoLAN</a> added decoding support for MPEG-4 Timed Text subtitles in <a href="/facts/VLC_media_player/aNurLBXb">VLC</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:10" href="#fn:10"><sup>10</sup></a>
</p><p>On October 30, 2005, <a href="/facts/Gabest/pfWnozU6">Gabest</a> added decoding support for MPEG-4 Timed Text subtitles in <a href="/facts/Media_Player_Classic/pfWnozU6">MPC</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:11" href="#fn:11"><sup>11</sup></a>
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<h2 id="see-also">See also</h2>
<ul><li><a href="/facts/Ogg_Writ/KF4j68N7">Ogg Writ</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/SubRip/et0TeFhK">SubRip</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/WebVTT/sFarVuof">WebVTT</a></li></ul>

<h2 id="external-links">External links</h2>
<ul><li><a href="http://gpac.wp.mines-telecom.fr/mp4box/ttxt-format-documentation/">GPAC MP4Box explanation of 3GPP Timed Text</a></li>
<li><a href="http://mpeg.chiariglione.org/">Official MPEG web site</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_catalogue/catalogue_tc/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=39478">ISO/IEC 14496-17:2006 - Coding of audio-visual objects -- Part 17: Streaming text format</a></li></ul>

<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:1"><p>ISO (2006). "ISO/IEC 14496-17:2006 - Information technology -- Coding of audio-visual objects -- Part 17: Streaming text format". ISO. Retrieved 2009-10-19. <a href="http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_catalogue/catalogue_tc/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=39478" target="_blank">http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_catalogue/catalogue_tc/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=39478</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:2"><p>ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 11 (July 2005), MPEG standardizes streaming of text, N7269 (PDF), archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-05-12, retrieved 2009-10-19{{citation}}:  CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140512232304/http://kikaku.itscj.ipsj.or.jp/pr/sc29/29w02911_2005-07.pdf" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20140512232304/http://kikaku.itscj.ipsj.or.jp/pr/sc29/29w02911_2005-07.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:3"><p>MP4REG. "The 'MP4' Registration Authority - Registered Types - Brands". Archived from the original on 2009-12-08. Retrieved 2009-10-19.{{cite web}}:  CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091208034240/http://www.mp4ra.org/filetype.html" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20091208034240/http://www.mp4ra.org/filetype.html</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:4"><p>MP4REG. "The MP4 Registration Authority - Registered Types - Codecs". Archived from the original on 2004-08-28. Retrieved 2009-10-19.{{cite web}}:  CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20040828173514/http://www.mp4ra.org/codecs.html" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20040828173514/http://www.mp4ra.org/codecs.html</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:5"><p>Jan van der Meer (July 2005). "White Paper on Streaming Text – MPEG-4 part 17, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11N7515". ISO. Retrieved 2009-10-19. <a href="http://mpeg.chiariglione.org/technologies/mpeg-4/mp04-stf/index.htm" target="_blank">http://mpeg.chiariglione.org/technologies/mpeg-4/mp04-stf/index.htm</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:6"><p>3GPP. "3GPP TS 26.245 - Transparent end-to-end Packet switched Streaming Service (PSS); Timed text format". Retrieved 2009-10-19.{{cite web}}:  CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) <a href="http://www.3gpp.org/ftp/Specs/html-info/26245.htm" target="_blank">http://www.3gpp.org/ftp/Specs/html-info/26245.htm</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:7"><p>3GPP (2004-06-18), 3GPP TS 26.245 V6.0.0 (2004-06) - Transparent end-to-end Packet switched Streaming Service (PSS); Timed text format (Release 6) (ZIP, DOC), retrieved 2009-10-19{{citation}}:  CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) <a href="http://www.3gpp.org/ftp/Specs/archive/26_series/26.245/26245-600.zip" target="_blank">http://www.3gpp.org/ftp/Specs/archive/26_series/26.245/26245-600.zip</a> <a href="#fnref:7" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:8"><p>Jan van der Meer (July 2005). "White Paper on Streaming Text – MPEG-4 part 17, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11N7515". ISO. Retrieved 2009-10-19. <a href="http://mpeg.chiariglione.org/technologies/mpeg-4/mp04-stf/index.htm" target="_blank">http://mpeg.chiariglione.org/technologies/mpeg-4/mp04-stf/index.htm</a> <a href="#fnref:8" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:9"><p>ISO (2006). "ISO/IEC 14496-17:2006 - Information technology -- Coding of audio-visual objects -- Part 17: Streaming text format". ISO. Retrieved 2009-10-19. <a href="http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_catalogue/catalogue_tc/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=39478" target="_blank">http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_catalogue/catalogue_tc/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=39478</a> <a href="#fnref:9" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:10"><p>"The VideoLAN Forums :: View topic - MPEG-4/3GPP Timed Text Subtitles?". forum.videolan.org. Archived from the original on 2007-03-13.
 <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070313084314/http://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?t=9507" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20070313084314/http://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?t=9507</a> <a href="#fnref:10" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:11"><p>"Media Player Classic supports Matroska v2, *.mp4, *.mov, and MPEG-4 Timed Text - Doom9's Forum". <a href="http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=101835" target="_blank">http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=101835</a> <a href="#fnref:11" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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MPEG-4 Part 17 open-in-new

MPEG-4 Part 17