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9. All About Subtitles

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In this chapter, you will learn to perform several tasks related to subtitles. Subtitles are dialogs that are displayed as text on a video. The subtitles may be burned into the video or be available as a separate content stream in the multimedia file. In case of the former, the subtitles cannot be turned off as they have become part of the video. In case of the latter, the subtitles can be turned on or off using a remote button or by selecting an onscreen menu option.

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