srt-mux(1)

SRT subtitle processing tool

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Description

SRT-MUX

NAME

srt-mux - SRT subtitle processing tool

DESCRIPTION

usage: srt mux [-h] --input FILE [--output FILE] [--no-strict] [--debug]

[--ignore-parsing-errors] [--encoding ENCODING] [--ms MILLISECONDS] [-w WIDTH] [-t] [--no-time-matching]

Merge multiple subtitles together into one.

options:

-h, --help

show this help message and exit

--input FILE, -i FILE

the files to process

--output FILE, -o FILE

the file to write to (default: stdout)

--no-strict

allow blank lines in output, your media player may explode

--debug

enable debug logging

--ignore-parsing-errors, -c

try to keep going, even if there are parsing errors

--encoding ENCODING, -e ENCODING

the encoding to read/write files in (default: utf8)

--ms MILLISECONDS

if subs being muxed are within this number of milliseconds of each other, they will have their times matched (default: 600)

-w WIDTH, --width WIDTH

how many subs to consider for time matching at once (default: 5)

-t, --top-and-bottom

use SSA-style tags to place files at the top and bottom, respectively. Turns off time matching

--no-time-matching

don’t try to do time matching for close subtitles (see --ms)

examples:

Merge English and Chinese subtitles

$ srt mux -i eng.srt -i chs.srt -o both.srt

Merge subtitles, with one on top and one at the bottom

$ srt mux -t -i eng.srt -i chs.srt -o both.srt