There is a neat GUI tool (written in Java) that extracts subtitles from Youtube, and converts them to the “SRT” subtitle format (which I like for ease of parsing). Youtube has subtitles for most things, because they automatically generate them from the audio.<\/p>\n
The downside of this application is that it does not work on the command line, and consequently is nearly worthless for any scale of conversion beyond a few hundred videos, and this is not a feature that the author is intending to add.<\/p>\n
However, you can get around this with youtube-dl and ffmpeg combined.<\/p>\n
First, you download a video with youtube-dl:<\/p>\n
\nyoutube-dl -o .\/data\/mXC3xGZWo_M\"\/%(id)s.%(ext)s\" -x --sub-lang en \\\n --write-sub --sub-format srt --convert-subtitles srt --write-auto-sub \n --continue --write-info-json --write-description --write-annotations\n --min-filesize 50k --ignore-errors --write-all-thumbnails --no-call-home \n --audio-format mp3 mXC3xGZWo_M\n<\/pre>\nThen convert it to SRT with ffmeg:<\/p>\n
\nffmpeg.exe -i mXC3xGZWo_M.en.vtt mXC3xGZWo_M.en.srt\n<\/pre>\nAnd then you get nice subtitles. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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