SBV to VTT converter
Convert SBV to VTT to use a YouTube caption file in a web player, with nothing lost on the way.
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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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SBV is the caption format YouTube Studio used to hand out: times and text, nothing else. VTT holds everything an SBV can, so the conversion is exact. Drop the .sbv and save the .vtt.
What changes when you convert SBV to VTT
Nothing is lost
Everything SBV can express has an equivalent in VTT, so the converted file carries the same timings, the same text and the same formatting.
Questions
What is an SBV file?
A plain-text caption file from YouTube, with each caption's start and end time on one line and its text below.
Is anything lost?
No. Every caption and every time carries over.
I need SRT, not VTT.
Use SBV to SRT.