Synchronized Accessible Media Interchange
SAMI ( Synchronized Accessible Media Interchange ) is a structured markup language published by Microsoft in 1998 . It is used, for example, for simple subtitles when playing media on a PC.
SAMI documents are simple text files and can be written and edited in any text editor. The file extensions are .sami or .smi (also used for SMIL ). Each SAMI document can contain several languages.
The SAMI format for subtitles is mostly used in South Korea .
HTML and CSS in SAMI
HTML and CSS can be used to format text in SAMI documents. The following HTML tags are allowed:
| Surname | description |
|---|---|
| B. | Bold text style |
| BASEFONT | Base font size |
| BDO | I18N BiDi override |
| BIG | Large text style |
| BLOCK RATE | 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 |
| MR | Horizontal rule |
| I. | Italic text style |
| IMG | Embedded image |
| LI | List item |
| OIL | 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 |
Playback software with SAMI support
SAMI Authoring Tools
- Audio WASP
- Hi-Caption
- MAGpie
See also
Web links
- MSDN: Understanding SAMI 1.0 (English)