SAMI

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For other uses, see sami.

Released in 1998, SAMI (Synchronized Accessible Media Interchange) is a Microsoft accessibility initiative. 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 files.

Each SAMI document may contain more than one language.

SAMI is the predominant caption file format in South Korea.

1 Use of HTML Tags and CSS
2 Media Players that Support SAMI
3 SAMI Authoring Tools
4 See Also
5 External Links

[edit] Use of HTML Tags and CSS

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