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<davexunit>wrote a little script that might see some use at the FSF <davexunit>converts SRT subtitles to WebVTT format for use with the HTML5 <video> tag. <drdanmaku>huh, today i learned html has a tag for subtitles <davexunit>and it doesn't link srt format! at least firefox doesn't, anyway. <davexunit>turns out that webvtt is nearly identical to srt <davexunit>so writing a parser for one and a writer for the other wasn't very hard. <davexunit>the motivation for this was that the folks have written subtitles for the FSF's new video, User Liberation, in SRT format. <davexunit>and we want those subtitles to work in the browser, too. but the only decent tool I found to do the conversion was SaSS <davexunit>thanks! I imagine there's already a free tool that does this better *somewhere*, but I couldn't find it. <wleslie>mplayer does conversion of different stream types <davexunit>desktop video players use srt, but the html5 spec decided to be different <davexunit>and use a format that is *nearly identical* to SRT <wleslie>it supports MicroDVD, SubRip, OGM, SubViewer, Sami, VPlayer, RT, SSA, AQTi‐ tle, JACOsub, PJS and our own: MPsub <wleslie>also SPU streams, VOBsub and Closed Captions <davexunit>./configure: line 2354: syntax error near unexpected token `2.0.5' <davexunit>./configure: line 2354: `GUILE_PROGS(2.0.5)' <davexunit>a configure script of mine works for me, but another user gets this error. <davexunit>didn't install the guile-2.0-dev package. oops!