Some of the most popular ones are SubRip, Timed Text, DFXP (Netflix standards), ITT (iTunes), SubStation Alpha, MicroDVD, SAMI, D-Cinema and BdSub.

It uses the VLC media player, MPC-HC, Mpv or DirectShow to play videos.

In 2001, Nikolaj Lynge Olsson had started the development of Subtitle Edit in Delphi which continued until April 2009.

[3] It uses the same source code that was developed for Windows, to implement it on Linux using Mono Project.

On October 17, 2011, the developer announced the availability of stable version for Linux.