subtitles (second) lines missing for videos from BBC iplayer (extractor = bbc.co.uk)

[Pat38]

Hello everybody,

When downloading subtitles files (*.srt) with the option "--write-sub" or the option "--all-subs" applied on videos from the BBC, the files contain only the first line of each dialogue. All the second lines are missing.

Thank you in advance for fixing this bug.

[dstftw]

Post an example URL.

[Pat38]

For example this one :

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b012cnkx/guilty-pleasures-luxury-in-2-the-middle-ages

[Pat38]

youtube-dl --version
2015.06.15

[yan12125]

Thanks for the report. This problem will be fixed in the next version.

I've changed how subtitles are handled in youtube-dl. You need some additional options --convert-subtitles srt to get a .srt file. For example:

youtube-dl --write-sub -v --convert-subtitles srt "http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b012cnkx/guilty-pleasures-luxury-in-2-the-middle-ages"

There's a known bug. If you use --skip-download, --convert-subtitles is ignored. A current workaround is creating a fake file "Guilty Pleasures - Luxury in..., 2. The Middle Ages-b012cnhl.flv" and omitting --skip-download