ssa2srt(1)

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✨ ssa2srt — bestie edition ✨

okay so this is ssa2srt(1) from the hxtools collection, and it's literally the glow-up translator between two subtitle formats 🎀

🌸 NAME 🌸

ssa2srt — no cap, it converts SubStation Alpha (SSA) subtitles into SubRip (SRT) subtitles 💅

🦋 SYNTAX 🦋

ssa2srt [file...]

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

So ssa2srt is a rudimentary script — like, it's not doing the most, it's doing the assignment — and what it does is pull the text messages out of an SSA file and write them back out in SRT format. periodt. ✨

but bestie, hear me: SRT literally doesn't know about any extensive styleformatting, fonts, colors or positions. so converting to SRT is usually lossy. the vibes get flattened. 😭 that's just how it is, don't shoot the messenger.

If no filenames are specified, stdin is read. 🫶 And output always occurs to stdout — always, no exceptions, it's not gonna ask you where to put it. 👑

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

  • hxtools(7) — the whole hxtools friend group 🧚

hxtools · 2011-11-20 · ok that's the whole page bestie, mwah, go convert some subtitles, you ate 💜🌸💖

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