Wrong conversion from ttml to srt #14187

ghost · 2017-09-12T21:22:46Z

I've verified and I assure that I'm running youtube-dl 2017.09.11
At least skimmed through the README, most notably the FAQ and BUGS sections
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Log:

C:\Users\user>youtube-dl -u Username -p Password -v --write-sub --convert-subs srt --skip-download -o "~/Videos/%(title)s.%(ext)s" https://www.safaribooksonline.com/library/view/introduction-to-python/9781491904794/video171204.html
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-u', 'PRIVATE', '-p', 'PRIVATE', '-v', '--write-sub', '--convert-subs', 'srt', '--skip-download', '-o', '~/Videos/%(title)s.%(ext)s', 'https://www.safaribooksonline.com/library/view/introduction-to-python/9781491904794/video171204.html']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1255, fs mbcs, out cp862, pref cp1255
[debug] youtube-dl version 2017.09.11
[debug] Python version 3.4.4 - Windows-10-10.0.15063
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg N-87043-gf0f4888, ffprobe N-87043-gf0f4888
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[safari] Downloading login form
[safari] Logging in as Username 
[safari] 9781491904794/video171204: Downloading webpage
[safari] 9781491904794/video171204: Downloading kaltura session JSON
[Kaltura] 9781491904794-video171204: Downloading webpage
[Kaltura] 0_ox5ujlby: Downloading video info JSON
[Kaltura] 0_ox5ujlby: Downloading m3u8 information
[debug] Default format spec: bestvideo+bestaudio/best
[info] Writing video subtitles to: C:\Users\user\Videos\What Can You Do With Python.en.ttml
...
<end of log>

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Converted srt is in a bad format causing bugs in both VLC and PSPlayer.
Provided are the original ttml, the wrongly formatted srt produced with youtube-dl and ffmpeg, and a correct format converted with the online converter from https://gotranscript.com/subtitle-converter

Here are the subtitle files:

Subtitles.zip

Here are the first few lines of the subs if there's a problem opening the attached zip above:

Original ttml:

<tt xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2006/04/ttaf1" xmlns:tts="http://www.w3.org/2006/04/ttaf1#styling" xml:lang="en">
  <head>
    <styling>
      <style id="1" tts:fontSize="14" tts:textAlign="center" tts:wrapOption="wrap"/>
    </styling>
  </head>
  <body>
    <div xml:lang="en">
      <p begin="00:00:00.00" end="00:00:02.76" style="1">
        
      </p>
      <p begin="00:00:02.76" end="00:00:05.08" style="1">
        I can say, unabashedly,<br/>
        that Python
      </p>
      <p begin="00:00:05.08" end="00:00:06.83" style="1">
        is my favorite<br/>
        programming language.
      </p>
      <p begin="00:00:06.83" end="00:00:08.56" style="1">
        I use it every day at work.
      </p>
      <p begin="00:00:08.56" end="00:00:10.10" style="1">
        It's also the primary<br/>
        language that I
      </p>
      <p begin="00:00:10.10" end="00:00:12.81" style="1">
        use for most of my side<br/>
        projects, my open source
      </p>
      <p begin="00:00:12.81" end="00:00:13.70" style="1">
        projects.
      </p>

    </div>
  </body>
</tt>

Wrong format srt:

1
00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02,759
<font size="14">
        
      </font>

2
00:00:02,759 --> 00:00:05,080
<font size="14">
        I can say, unabashedly,

        that Python
      </font>

3
00:00:05,080 --> 00:00:06,830
<font size="14">
        is my favorite

        programming language.
      </font>

4
00:00:06,830 --> 00:00:08,560
<font size="14">
        I use it every day at work.
      </font>

5
00:00:08,560 --> 00:00:10,099
<font size="14">
        It's also the primary

        language that I
      </font>

6
00:00:10,099 --> 00:00:12,810
<font size="14">
        use for most of my side

        projects, my open source
      </font>

7
00:00:12,810 --> 00:00:13,699
<font size="14">
        projects.
      </font>

Correct format srt:

1
00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02,760


2
00:00:02,760 --> 00:00:05,080
I can say, unabashedly,
that Python

3
00:00:05,080 --> 00:00:06,830
is my favorite
programming language.

4
00:00:06,830 --> 00:00:08,560
I use it every day at work.

5
00:00:08,560 --> 00:00:10,100
It's also the primary
language that I

6
00:00:10,100 --> 00:00:12,810
use for most of my side
projects, my open source

7
00:00:12,810 --> 00:00:13,700
projects.

dstftw · 2017-09-12T22:02:41Z

Duplicate of #7908.

ghost · 2017-09-13T14:59:38Z

Hi Sergey, though a partial solution (I would contribute to this project after I learn Python) I can suggest to remove ttml to srt option until it gets fixed, the better solution till then is to get the original ttml's and batch convert them to srt with https://github.com/SubtitleEdit/subtitleedit you just drag-drop a folder with the ttml subs and it auto converts them in a second :) 2017-09-13 1:03 GMT+03:00 Sergey M. <notifications@github.com>:

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Wrong conversion from ttml to srt #14187

Wrong conversion from ttml to srt #14187

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ghost commented Sep 13, 2017

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ghost commented Sep 12, 2017

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