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Welcome to the asa Wiki!

This is the collaborative wiki for asa, an open-source and cross-platform SSA/ASS subtitles renderer.

Given the open nature of Wiki, the asa team does not take any responsibility for the content or accuracy of content provided on these pages. All content is the responsibility and property of its author.

News

• 2007-04-12: Google will be sponsoring equinox to work on VideoLAN subtitle support as part of this year's Summer of Code, so asa will be seeing some development too!

Learning about asa

• What is asa? - What asa is, and what it brings to SSA/ASS subtitling
• Screenshots
• Requirements - What is needed for asa to operate
• License - More about the terms of use of asa
• Known issues - bugs & problems

Downloading and Installing

• Source code / download - Obtain source snapshots and automated builds of asa
• Build instructions - How to build asa from the ground up
• Install instructions - What to do, once you have obtained a compiled asa
• General Talk
• Successful builds

Participating

This wiki is a collaborative place. Here are pointers for people who would like to help:

• Consult the Help:Editing page for syntax reference; Asa:Wanted pages for where editing efforts should be directed
• Participate in talks like Talk:License or annotating draft propositions such as AS5 and CSRI
• Document the ASS style overrides

Developers

• short-term TODO
• Bug tracker
• Project organization
• The CSRI (interface)

subtitling formats

• SSA family ⇒ ASS - ASS2 - AS5 - SSF
• XML-based: TTXT - USF - SAMI - SMIL
• Legacy: SRT - SUB

renderers

• VSFilter
• libssa
• asa
• libass
• Perian

Feature comparison→Compatibility page

Subtitle tools

• Syntax checker - An online syntax checker based on asa

Links

• the Aegisub wiki is InterWiki-linked under the aegi: namespace
• the Aegisub Manual/documentation wiki is InterWiki-linked under the aegidoc: namespace
• FansubWiki has useful guides, in particular regarding timing and typesetting.

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