SRT-LINEAR-TIMESHIFT(1)

✨ SRT-LINEAR-TIMESHIFT(1) ✨

okay bestie, sit down, we're doing math on subtitles and it's genuinely iconic 💅

🌸 NAME 🌸

srt-linear-timeshift — the SRT subtitle processing tool that stretches and squishes time so your subs actually line up 🫶

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

here's the vibe, no cap:

usage: srt linear-timeshift [-h] [--input FILE] [--output FILE]
[--inplace]

[--no-strict] [--debug] [--ignore-parsing-errors]
       [--encoding ENCODING] --from-start FROM_START --to-start TO_START
       --from-end FROM_END --to-end TO_END

Perform linear time correction on a subtitle. that's the whole assignment, and she ate 🔥

💖 options:

• -h, --help — shows this help message and then dips, that's it, exit stage left 👑
• --input FILE, -i FILE — the file to process (default: stdin). if you don't hand her a file she'll just read from stdin like a lil gremlin 🙈
• --output FILE, -o FILE — the file to write to (default: stdout). no file given? she's printing straight to stdout, periodt 💫
• --inplace, -p — modify file in place. she's editing the file itself, no copy, no backup, main character energy only 💀
• --no-strict — allow blank lines in output, your media player may explode 😭 like fr fr, that's the actual documented consequence, don't say I didn't warn you
• --debug — enable debug logging. she gets chatty, she tells you everything 🎀
• --ignore-parsing-errors, -c — try to keep going, even if there are parsing errors. resilience queen, she simply refuses to give up 🌈
• --encoding ENCODING, -e ENCODING — the encoding to read/write files in (default: utf8). change it if your files are built different ✨
• --from-start FROM_START, --f1 FROM_START — the first desynchronised timestamp. this is where the chaos begins 💅
• --to-start TO_START, --t1 TO_START — the first synchronised timestamp. this is where the chaos ends, glow up complete ⭐
• --from-end FROM_END, --f2 FROM_END — the second desynchronised timestamp. the other end of the mess 🍓
• --to-end TO_END, --t2 TO_END — the second synchronised timestamp. the other end of the fix, she's healed 🧚

🌟 examples:

Stretch out a subtitle so that second 1 is 1, 2 is 3, 3 is 5, etc

$ srt linear-timeshift --f1 00:00:01,000 --t1 00:00:01,000 --f2
00:00:02,000 --t2 00:00:03,000

look at her go. two points in, two points out, everything in between gets linearly interpolated. it's giving geometry class but make it subtitles 😌

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quick lil heads up bestie: --from-start, --to-start, --from-end and --to-end are not optional. all four, every time, no skipping. she needs both pairs or she can't do the math 🫶

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that was srt-linear-timeshift version 3.5.3, from June 2023, and that's the whole manual, iykyk 💜 mwah, go sync those subs bestie ✨🎀