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<blockquote data-quote="Lifeisabeach" data-source="post: 1187532" data-attributes="member: 38864"><p>Well XBMC will support playback of pretty much any media type. Apple only supports MPEG4, so if you have other videos that aren't compatible, XBMC can let you play those. In particular, it supports MKV files, which is a rather excellent format for videos because it supports pretty much any video and audio codecs and subtitle formats. The latter is significant because MPEG 4 only supports .srt subtitles, which is limited in significant ways (2 lines of text, no rich text formatting, for example). There are websites for anime fans with subtitles for various titles in the Substation Alpha format that are highly desirable for various reasons (fancier fonts and colors, ability to place the text anywhere on screen for a given scene, etc).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lifeisabeach, post: 1187532, member: 38864"] Well XBMC will support playback of pretty much any media type. Apple only supports MPEG4, so if you have other videos that aren't compatible, XBMC can let you play those. In particular, it supports MKV files, which is a rather excellent format for videos because it supports pretty much any video and audio codecs and subtitle formats. The latter is significant because MPEG 4 only supports .srt subtitles, which is limited in significant ways (2 lines of text, no rich text formatting, for example). There are websites for anime fans with subtitles for various titles in the Substation Alpha format that are highly desirable for various reasons (fancier fonts and colors, ability to place the text anywhere on screen for a given scene, etc). [/QUOTE]
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