SMI to VTT converter
Convert SMI to VTT to play a SAMI subtitle file in a web player, with Korean text read correctly from EUC-KR.
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SMI files are common in Korea, and older ones are usually saved in EUC-KR, not UTF-8. The encoding is detected when you drop the file, and the VTT comes out as UTF-8, which browsers expect. An SMI can hold two languages at once. VTT has no separate language tracks, so both come out as captions at the same times, and the list below says what was left out.
What changes when you convert SMI to VTT
Not everything survives the trip. Converting SMI to VTT drops or flattens the following:
Questions
My SMI has Korean and English. Which do I get?
Both, as captions at the same times, which players show together. VTT can't keep them as separate tracks to switch between.
The Korean shows as strange characters.
Pick the encoding by hand in the reader's encoding box. EUC-KR is the usual one for older SMI files.
I need SRT instead.
Use SMI to SRT.