SBV to SRT converter
Convert SBV to SRT: YouTube's .sbv caption files become SRT, which any player, editor or upload form will take.
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This format stores times as frame numbers, so it has no meaning without a rate. We don't guess one.
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Choose EUC-KR if an older TV or player shows broken Korean characters. EUC-KR can't hold some characters, like emoji, and you'll see how many before you download.
SBV is YouTube's plain caption format, and it's still one of the options YouTube Studio offers when you download captions. Hardly anything outside YouTube reads it. The words and timings carry straight across to SRT, and since SBV holds very little else, there's not much to lose.
What changes when you convert SBV to SRT
Nothing is lost
Everything SBV can express has an equivalent in SRT, so the converted file carries the same timings, the same text and the same formatting.
Questions
How do I convert SBV to SRT?
Drop the .sbv file above and download the .srt. Every caption keeps its text and timing.
What is an SBV file?
A caption file in the SubViewer layout: a start and end time on one line, the text underneath. YouTube Studio offers it as a download alongside SRT and VTT.
Can I convert a whole folder of SBV files?
Yes. Put them in a ZIP and drop the ZIP. You get a ZIP of SRT files back, and any file that can't be read is listed with the reason.
Can I convert SBV to VTT?
Yes. Drop the .sbv on Convert to VTT and download a WebVTT file. Nothing in an SBV is lost either way.