Subtitle guides
Subtitle files look simple until you try to read them as text. These guides explain what is inside each format, where the clutter comes from and how to get from a caption file to a transcript you can quote, summarize or translate.
Each one is written from how delsub actually processes files, with examples you can paste into the tool to see the result for yourself.
- SRT, VTT and SBV: subtitle formats explained How the three common subtitle formats store timing, numbering and styling, and what has to go to leave only the text.
- How to turn YouTube captions into a clean transcript Download a video’s captions or copy its transcript, then remove timestamps, repeats and sound cues.
- Why auto-generated captions repeat every line Roll-up captions explained: where the duplicates come from and how to remove them without losing dialogue.
- Fixing garbled characters in subtitle files Why “é” shows up instead of “é”, how to tell which encoding a file uses and how to convert it to UTF-8.