Possibility to convert/download WebVTT subtitles?

[haarts]

Hi,

It's a pleasure using Filebot and do so regularly (or rather Cron uses it for me ).
The -get-missing-subtitles CLI option I use often, this downloads .srt's. I was wondering if it'd be possible to have it download VTT files. Or convert SRT files to VTT files.

Opensubtitles.org seems to have something related to WebVTT: trac.opensubtitles.org/projects/opensubtitles/wiki/XMLRPC

Thanks!

[rednoah]

Opensubtitles.org seems to have something related to WebVTT

Does it? Search for "WebVTT" yields 0 results.


Anyway, OpenSubtitles doesn't enforce any subtitle format or text encoding. FileBot has to auto-detect all that client-side and does convert all the non-SubRip format non-UTF-8 encoded files to something more standard, i.e. SubRip (UTF-8).

If I ever encounter a WebVTT file I may consider adding support for that as well, but I haven't seen any of those in the wild. But if you want support now, and if you have a few example files, and too much money, then you can hire me to add support. Make me an offer.

[haarts]

Hahaha! Watch out I might take you up on your offer.

I should have properly linked it.
This link seems to show they accept(?) VTT's as uploads: http://trac.opensubtitles.org/projects/ ... iki/XMLRPC
And this page seems to show that it's possible to download VTT's: http://forum.opensubtitles.org/viewtopic.php?t=14992
I'm guessing the last one based on the URL of the subtitle: http://dl.opensubtitles.org/en/download ... format-vtt[/b]/file/1954602263 (the highlighting breaks the link generation, sorry).