subber

About

Subber is a cli tool for reading, writing and manipulating .srt subtitle files

Features

• Processes .srt and .ssa subtitles
• Cleans up the captions
• Optionally remove html tags or fix capitalization
• Outputs utf8 subtitle in the popular .srt format
• Synchronize captions

Why?

While VLC may swallow all kinds of malformed subtitles, not all software are so forgiving. So, sometimes "other software" needs a cleaned up .srt, and the subber cli app automates this task.

Installation

Windows and macOS binaries are available under Releases

Or if you have golang installed, you can compile from source:

go install github.com/martinlindhe/subtitles/cmd/subber

Usage

Download subtitles for a video

$ subber movie.mp4

Downloading subs for movie.mp4 ...
Cleaning sub movie.srt ...
Removing caption 82 [== sync, corrected by <font color="#00FF00">elderman</font> ==]
Written to movie.srt

Some additional flags (use -h for full list) includes:

• --keep-ads do not remove advertising segments from the processesed sub
• --dont-touch write sub as-is (downloaded are processed by default)`
• --skip-backups by default, a .org file is created for every modified .srt
• --language="sv" Specify another language, English subtitles is the default
• --sync="-3000" Moves all captions backwards by 3000 ms

Remove ads from an existing .srt file

$ subber subtitle.srt

Removing caption 21 [<font color="#FFFF00"> Captions by VITAC  </font><font color="#00FFFF"> www.vitac.com</font>]

Strip html from .srt

$ subber subtitle.srt --filter="html"

[html] <i>And there's a lot of it there.</i> -> And there's a lot of it there.

Normalize capitalization in .srt

$ subber subtitle.srt --filter="caps"

[caps] INTRODUCING -> Introducing
[caps] right, to go? -> Right, to go?

Convert .ssa to .srt

$ subber subtitle.ssa -o subtitle.srt

License

Under MIT