Motivated by a ticket in my queue at the FSF, I realized that the HTML5 video tag is capable of handling subtitles, but it seems that SRT format is not supported (at least not in Mozilla-based browsers, AFAICT). HTML5 video uses the WebVTT format, which looks very much like SRT. It shouldn't be that difficult to convert from one to the other, I thought, but the only tool I could find to do it quickly and easily (and the one that Mozilla recommends) was SaSS. So, I decided to head down the rabbit hole of writing my own SRT to WebVTT converter in my free time and this is the result: https://gitorious.org/davexunit/srt2vtt
Is there already a free, easy-to-use, more robust converter out there already that I just didn't find and thus wasted my time? Probably, but it was a fun hack.
Is there already a free, easy-to-use, more robust converter out there already that I just didn't find and thus wasted my time? Probably, but it was a fun hack.
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