Linus Tech Tips Discussion

stom colors and transparency for both the text and the background box Outlines and drop shadows Alternative fonts and font sizes Precise positioning anywhere on the video Vertical text and ruby text for Asian languages   [...] SRV3 was discovered back in 2018, and people have been using it ever since. YouTube made a handful of changes over the years, mainly adding bugs that required extra workarounds... But mostly they left it alone, and the format kept on working. That is, until today. If you now upload an SRV3 file to YouTube Studio and hit Publish, nothing appears on the video at all. The newer JSON3 is sadly not an alternative: it gets straight up rejected as being unrecognized.        Quotes Quote Youtube supports several basic forms of subtitling for videos, but the most advanced form comes from their YTT / SRV3 file format.This format supported options not available in any other subtitle format. This includes bold/italic/underline, custom colours and transparency for both the text and the background box, outlines and drop shadows, alternative fonts and font sizes, precise positioning anywhere on the video, vertical text and ruby text for Asian languages.   [...] The use of this format was necessary to generate subtitling that matched actual text on screen and natively replaced it, generate subtitles that were colored to match multiple different speakers so they were easily identifiable, and more.   [...] Users are now report submitting their videos with advanced subtitles does not work. This doesn't just disable it for new videos - some users are now reporting that old videos are having their custom subtitles removed, including ones with 10M+ views.   https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46663969    Quotes Quote Watame has spent a huge amount of her own money on these subtitles with roughly 30 subbed original song MVs, 25 episodes of Have a Nice Day which are often 30+ minutes long, and ~90 episodes of Watame did Borderline Nothing wrong among some other miscellaneous videos here and there. It's also a massive amount of time for anyone involved in the creation of the subs. Subbing something like this is a huge effort.   It's unclear how much longer they'll be on the videos or what she'll be able to do regarding them going forward, if anything. I can only encourage people to share her content and consider supporting the sheep where possible if able. Check out ANY of the stuff above, pass it on, complain at TeamYouTube on Twitter, or if willing even consider getting her new song or anniversary merch.   She's certainly not the only member getting hit by this stuff either, but trying to draw attention to it since she's my oshi and what she's put out is very substantial. Support the f