SRT-MUX(1)

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version 3.5.3 · 3 versions
, in debian trixie, ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing

💖 SRT-MUX(1) — the srt-mux era 💖

okay bestie, pull up a chair 🫶 this is the manual page for srt-mux, aka the SRT subtitle processing tool, and yes it's literally as iconic as it sounds. it's giving "I merge your subs so you don't have to". no cap.

✨ NAME ✨

srt-mux — SRT subtitle processing tool 💅

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

here's the whole vibe, straight up:

usage: srt mux [-h] --input FILE [--output FILE] [--no-strict] [--debug]
               [--ignore-parsing-errors] [--encoding ENCODING] [--ms
               MILLISECONDS] [-w WIDTH] [-t] [--no-time-matching]

so what does it do?? it merges multiple subtitles together into one. that's it. that's the whole thing. multiple sub files walk in, one sub file walks out 👑🦋

🎀 options: 🎀

  • -h, --help — shows you this help message and then dips. exit stage left. 💨
  • --input FILE, -i FILE — the files to process. yes you can pass it more than once, that's the whole point bestie 🌈
  • --output FILE, -o FILE — the file to write to. default? stdout. so if you don't say where, it just screams into your terminal 🙈
  • --no-strict — allows blank lines in the output. and like… your media player may explode 💀 that's a direct quote, not me being dramatic (okay it's a little me being dramatic, but the manpage said it first)
  • --debug — turns on debug logging. for when you need to see everything 👀
  • --ignore-parsing-errors, -c — tries to keep going, even if there are parsing errors. main character energy: refuses to stop ✋✨
  • --encoding ENCODING, -e ENCODING — the encoding to read/write files in. default: utf8 🌸
  • --ms MILLISECONDS — if the subs being muxed are within this number of milliseconds of each other, their times get matched up 🫶 default: 600
  • -w WIDTH, --width WIDTH — how many subs to consider for time matching at once. default: 5
  • -t, --top-and-bottom — uses SSA-style tags to place the files at the top and the bottom, respectively. this turns off time matching, just so you know 👑
  • --no-time-matching — don't even try to do time matching for close subtitles (peep --ms if you wanna know the deets) 🦋

💜 examples: 💜

merge English and Chinese subtitles — a classic, honestly:

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

merge subtitles, with one on top and one at the bottom — stacking era:

$ srt mux -t -i eng.srt -i chs.srt -o both.srt
lowkey reminder: -t kills time matching. that's not a bug, that's just the deal 💅

and that's the page!! srt-mux 3.5.3, born June 2023, still slaying 💖 if you made it this far you're officially a subtitle girlie now, iykyk. mwah 🎀✨🦋

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