srt2vtt is a simple command-line tool that converts SubRip formatted subtitles to WebVTT format for use with the HTML5 <track> tag. It is written in pure Guile Scheme.
I wrote this software to handle converting the growing number of translations of the FSF's new "User Liberation"[0] video from SRT to WebVTT format so that visitors could see the subtitles in their native language from the comfort of their web browser. The only pre-existing, easy-to-use software that I found to do this was SaSS, and the underlying source code (which is free) is written in PHP and has no CLI. So, I decided that the world needed something better. :) It has worked well enough for my needs thus far. I hope that it may be useful to someone else. The 0.1 source release can be found at <http://dthompson.us/releases/srt2vtt/srt2vtt-0.1.tar.gz>. The home page for srt2vtt can be found at <http://dthompson.us/pages/software/srt2vtt.html>. Happy hacking, fellow Guilers! [0] https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/user-liberation-watch-and-share-our-new-video#info -- David Thompson Web Developer - Free Software Foundation - http://fsf.org GPG Key: 0FF1D807 Support the FSF: https://fsf.org/donate
