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SAMI (Synchronized Accessible Media Interchange) is a Microsoft
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 accessibility initiative released in 1998. The structured markup language is designed to simplify creating captions for media playback on a PC, i.e. not for broadcast purposes.

SAMI documents are text, and can be written in any text editor, although there are special utilities available to create SAMI documents. They use .smi or .sami file extensions.






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SAMI (Synchronized Accessible Media Interchange) is a Microsoft
Microsoft

Microsoft Corporation is a multinational corporation computer technology corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of computer software products for computing devices....
 accessibility initiative released in 1998. The structured markup language is designed to simplify creating captions for media playback on a PC, i.e. not for broadcast purposes.

SAMI documents are text, and can be written in any text editor, although there are special utilities available to create SAMI documents. They use .smi or .sami file extensions. The common use of .smi for SAMI files creates a file extension collision with SMIL
Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language

SMIL , the Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language, is a W3C recommendation XML markup language for describing multimedia presentations....
 files.

Each SAMI document may contain more than one language.

SAMI is the predominant caption
Caption

Caption may refer to:*Caption , a small press and independent comic convention held annually in Oxford, England*Closed captioning, used to provide the text of a show's audio portion to those who may have trouble hearing it...
 file format in South Korea
South Korea

South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea , ), often referred to as Korea and the "names of Korea#Revival of the names", is a Semi-presidential system republic in East Asia, located in the southern half of the Korean Peninsula....
.

Use of HTML Tags and CSS

HTML and CSS may be used to format text in SAMI documents. The following HTML
HTML

HTML, an Acronym and initialism of HyperText Markup Language, is the predominant markup language for Web pages. It provides a means to describe the structure of text-based information in a document?by denoting certain text as links, headings, paragraphs, lists, and so on?and to supplement that text with interactive forms, embedded '...
 tags are valid in SAMI:

Name Description
B Bold text style
BASEFONT Base font size
BDO I18N BiDi override
BIG Large text style
BLOCKQUOTE Long quotation
BR Forced line break
CAPTION Table caption
CENTER Shorthand for DIV align=center
COL Table column
COLGROUP Table column group
DD Definition description
DIV Generic language/style container
DL Definition list
DT Definition term
FONT Local change to font
H1 Heading
H2 Heading
H3 Heading
H4 Heading
H5 Heading
H6 Heading
HR Horizontal rule
I Italic text style
IMG Embedded image
LI List item
OL Ordered list
P Paragraph
PRE Preformatted text
Q Short inline quotation
S Strike-through text style
SMALL Small text style
SPAN Generic language/style container
STRIKE Strike-through text
SUB Subscript
SUP Superscript
TABLE N/A
TBODY Table body
TD Table data cell
TFOOT Table footer
TH Table header cell
THEAD Table header
TR Table row
TT Teletype or monospaced text style
U Underlined text style
UL Unordered list


Media Players that Support SAMI

  • ALShow
  • BSplayer
  • GOM Player
    Gom player

    GOM Player is a freeware media player for Microsoft Windows. It is the primary client player for South Korean GOM-TV and is more popular in South Korea than any other media player....
  • MPlayer
    MPlayer

    MPlayer is a free software and open source media player . The program is available for all major operating systems, including Linux and other Unix-like systems, Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X....
  • Perian for Mac OS X
  • VLC Media Player
    VLC media player

    VLC media player is an open source, free software media player written by the VideoLAN project.VLC is a portable multimedia player, encoder, and streamer supporting many audio and video codecs and file formats as well as DVDs, Video CD, and various streaming media Communications protocol....
  • Windows Media Player
    Windows Media Player

    Windows Media Player is a digital media media player and media library application developed by Microsoft that is used for playing sound reproduction, video and viewing s on personal computers running the Microsoft Windows operating system, as well as on Pocket PC and Windows Mobile-based devices....
  • Xine
    Xine

    xine is a multimedia playback engine for Unix-like operating systems released under the GNU General Public License. xine is built around a shared library that supports different frontend player applications....
  • The KMPlayer
  • Chameleo
    Chameleo

    Chameleo is a Multimedia framework with support for rich video playback. Chameleo is designed to make it easy to extend a media player with custom features through extensions and extensions points....


SAMI Authoring Tools



See also

  • SAMI
  • SMIL
    Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language

    SMIL , the Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language, is a W3C recommendation XML markup language for describing multimedia presentations....
  • Closed captioning
    Closed captioning

    Closed captioning is a term describing several systems developed to display Written language on a television or video Display device to provide additional or interpretive information to viewers who wish to access it....
  • Subtitle (captioning)
    Subtitle (captioning)

    Subtitles are textual versions of the dialog in films and television programs, usually displayed at the bottom of the screen. They can either be a form of written translation of a dialog in a foreign language, or a written rendering of the dialog in the same language, with or without added information to help viewers who are deaf and hard-o...


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