FIELD: physics; computer engineering.
SUBSTANCE: text subtitle stream contains a dialogue style segment defining a set of region styles and a dialog presentation segment. Each dialog style segment contains a dialogue text region. Each dialogue text region contains linking information which is formed so as to link each dialogue text region with one set of region styles defined in the dialogue style segment. The linking information is identification of the region style, which uniquely identifies the region style related to each dialogue text region. When each dialogue text region is played back, the region style identified through region style identification is applied.
EFFECT: design of a recording medium, design of an efficient method and device for playing back and recording text subtitle streams.
33 cl, 11 dwg
