Convert subtitles to lrc?

[DuendeInexistente]

This one is simple: Youtube-dl gives an option to convert subtitles to a desired format, but lrc isn't one of the provided options. Adding support for it would be trivial (Ffmpeg already does it on it's own) and, I think, it'd be a great help when downloading music from such channels which add subtitles to all their songs.

I already checked out --exec to do this, but that runs commands with the file's full name, while the subtitle always differs slightly from the video. Embedding the subtitle into the file and converting that could also work I guess, but my experience is that sometimes (I think when multiple formats are mixed into a mkv container?) subtitle embedding just fails.

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[yan12125]

Ffmpeg already does it on it's own

Good to know that! lrc will be accepted as a subtitle conversion target in the next version.