Module subtitles

Subtitle file formats: SubRip (.srt) and WebVTT (.vtt) — parse (auto-detected) and write. Basic formatting tags (, , {\an8}, VTT cue settings) are stripped on import; text is kept as plain lines. Times are seconds.

Functions

fmt_time 🔒

parse

Parse SRT or WebVTT (auto-detected by the “WEBVTT” header / timestamp style). Malformed blocks are skipped. Returns (start, end, text) triples in file order.

parse_block 🔒

One blank-line separated block: [optional index / cue-id lines,] timestamp line, text lines. The timestamp line is the first containing “–>” (this also skips WEBVTT/NOTE/STYLE blocks).

parse_time 🔒

“HH:MM:SS,mmm” / “HH:MM:SS.mmm” / “MM:SS.mmm” → seconds.

strip_tags 🔒

Append s to out with <...> tags and {\...} override codes removed.

to_srt

to_vtt