FOX.com subtitles encrypted/unreadable

[samantonioli]

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[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'-v', u'https://www.fox.com/watch/5b769d89f45f8ab6478e08d58769a302/', u'--ap-username', u'PRIVATE', u'--ap-password', u'PRIVATE', u'--ap-mso', u'Charter_Direct', u'--skip-download', u'--write-sub']
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[debug] youtube-dl version 2018.03.14
[debug] Python version 2.7.10 (CPython) - Darwin-17.5.0-x86_64-i386-64bit
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 3.4, ffprobe 3.4, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[FOX] 5b769d89f45f8ab6478e08d58769a302: Downloading JSON metadata
[FOX] 5b769d89f45f8ab6478e08d58769a302: Retrieving Media Token
[FOX] 5b769d89f45f8ab6478e08d58769a302: Downloading webpage
[uplynk:preplay] 922054211715: Downloading JSON metadata
[uplynk:preplay] 922054211715: Downloading m3u8 information
[uplynk:preplay] 922054211715: Downloading JSON metadata
[debug] Default format spec: bestvideo+bestaudio/best
[info] Writing video subtitles to: Baby Kangaroo Alert!-cf5beafbaa0942f5856bafacc57286ee.en.scc

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When writing subtitles from FOX.com, the subtitles seem to be encrypted. I remember youtube-dl wanting pycrypto before downloading the video, but it didn't ask for pycrypto for just the subtitles. The beginning of the .scc subtitles looks like the following:

Scenarist_SCC V1.0

00:00:02;00	94AE 

00:00:04;09	9420 9420 94AE 94AE 942F 942F 9420 9420 94AE 94AE 9152 9152 97A2 97A2 CEC1 5252 C154 4F52 BA20 5468 E973 20F4 E96D E580 9170 9170 97A2 97A2 EF6E 20C4 F2AE 20CB A780 9229 9229 7320 45F8 EFF4 E9E3 20C1 6EE9 6D61 EC20 4552 AE80 942F 942F 

00:00:07;05	9420 9420 94AE 94AE 9154 9154 97A1 97A1 C452 AE20 CBBA 2057 6861 6161 A180 942F 942F 9420 9420 94AE 94AE 91D0 91D0 97A2 97A2 CEC1 5252 C154 4F52 BA20 C120 64E5 73E5 F2F4 20F4 EFF2 F4EF E973 E580 9170 9170 9723 9723 6EE5 E564 7320 ECE9 E6E5 AD73 6176 E96E 6720 7375 F267 E5F2 79AE 942F 942F 

00:00:10;19	9420 9420 94AE 94AE 91D0 91D0 9723 9723 C452 AE20 CBBA 2054 68E9 7320 E973 2061 2062 E967 2064 E561 ECAE 942F 942F 9420 9420 94AE 94AE 9152 9152 4CE9 6BE5 2073 EF6D E5F4 68E9 6E67 20F7 68E5 F2E5 20F7 E580 91F2 91F2 6861 76E5 20F4 EF20 F461 6BE5 2073 75F2 67E9 E361 ECEC 79AE 942F 942F 

00:00:13;07	9420 9420 94AE 94AE 91D0 91D0 97A2 97A2 CEC1 5252 C154 4F52 BA20 C120 6D61 ECE5 2070 F261 E9F2 E9E5 2064 EF67 9170 9170 6861 7320 6120 ECE9 F4F4 ECE5 2070 F2EF 62EC E56D 2064 EFF7 6E73 F461 E9F2 73AE 942F 942F 

00:00:17;06	9420 9420 94AE 94AE 9154 9154 9723 9723 C452 AE20 C7BA 20C1 F7AE 942F 942F 

00:00:17;28	9420 9420 94AE 94AE 91D0 91D0 97A1 97A1 544F CDBA 204F EF68 2C20 F468 61F4 20EC EFEF 6B73 2070 61E9 6EE6 75EC AE80 942F 942F 9420 9420 94AE 94AE 91D0 91D0 97A1 97A1 CEC1 5252 C154 4F52 BA20 C16E 6420 6120 62E5 ECEF 76E5 6420 6275 6E6E 7980 91F2 91F2 9723 9723 6861 7320 6120 6D61 EAEF F220 E973 7375 E580 942F 942F 

00:00:21;17	9420 9420 94AE 94AE 9152 9152 97A2 97A2 F7E9 F468 2068 E973 2061 6EE5 73F4 68E5 73E9 61AE 942F 942F 

00:00:22;24	9420 9420 94AE 94AE 9152 9152 9723 9723 CDC1 52D9 C1CE CE45 BA20 5468 E9E5 ECE5 6EBF 942F 942F 9420 9420 94AE 94AE 9152 9152 9723 9723 C452 AE20 54BA 2057 6861 F4BF 20D9 E561 68AE 91F4 91F4 97A2 97A2 5768 61F4 2C20 F768 61F4 BF80 942F 942F 

00:00:24;29	9420 9420 94AE 94AE 91D6 91D6 C4D9 C1CE CE45 BA80 9170 9170 9723 9723 C8E9 7320 E579 E573 2061 F2E5 2062 7567 67E9 6E67 20EF 75F4 AE80 942F 942F 

00:00:27;01	9420 9420 94AE 94AE 91D6 91D6 97A2 97A2 9137 9137 2080 9137 9137 942F 942F 

00:00:44;16	9420 9420 94AE 94AE 9152 9152 C452 AE20 CBBA 204F 682C 20F4 68E5 F2E5 2073 68E5 20E9 73AE 942F 942F 

[samantonioli]

My mistake. Apparently .scc subtitles are easily converted into readable subtitles via an .scc to .srt converter.