subtitle-transform
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Parses various subtitle formats (VTT/TTML/TTAF) into a type called SubtitleData.
There are various generators that take SubtitleData and emit text (SRT/ASS).
npm i -g subtitle-transform
With a file:
subtitle-transform --input=ep1.vtt --inputFormat=vtt --outputFormat=ass
or pipe:
cat ep1.vtt | subtitle-transform --inputFormat=vtt --outputFormat=ass
You can also pass --timestampSkew=-2.1 to adjust timestamps.
npm i -S subtitle-transform
import { parseTT, generateASS } from 'subtitle-transform';
const inputContents = `<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<tt xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2006/10/ttaf1" xml:lang="en" xmlns:ttm="http://www.w3.org/2006/10/ttaf1#metadata">
<head>
<!--Created on 1/11/2011 at 00:30:00-->
<metadata>
<ttm:title>
Yellow eggs and potatoes
</ttm:title>
<ttm:copyright>
Paul
</ttm:copyright>
</metadata>
<styling>
<style id="s0" tts:backgroundColor="black" tts:fontStyle="normal" tts:fontSize="16" tts:fontFamily="sansSerif" tts:color="white" />
<style id="s1" style="s0" tts:color="yellow" />
</styling>
</head>
<body tts:textAlign="center" style="s0">
<div>
<p begin="00:01:57.32" id="p0" end="00:01:58.36">First caption!</p>
<p begin="00:02:11.44" id="p3" end="00:02:16.44">A what<br />oh</p>
<p style="s1" begin="00:03:01.88" id="p14" end="00:03:04.64"><span tts:color="white">This line is white<br /></span>This line is something else</p>
</div>
</body>
</tt>`;
const subtitleData = parseTT(inputContents, {});
const output = generateASS(subtitleData, { enableStyles: true });
console.log(output);
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