Subtitles fixing

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I finally got it working in audioMotion, so now I just need to find the setting for me. Apparently audioMotion seems to support vtt and not srt - and the vtt test file I had was faulty and would not work, so I never got any further with it. But as I was testing things with Whisper I all of a sudden saw subtitles working in audioMotion working. After some tedious work I found out that only one kind of file work for it and why the old file I tested with did not work. Not sure why I did not test with other vtt files then that single one - and ended up giving up.
--output_format vtt
You can also do --output_format all if you wanna see every kind of file format it can produce things in.

Anyway - now that it works in audioMotion, and I know what file format works, I need to sort out the best settings for subtitles.
Not looked into the other video player I have, I know it works with the srt format but not sure if it works with vtt - so.... Well, we will see. Lets keep to audioMotion for now.

So, I have been looking into the help file for Sub info - never been good at those help files.... But lets have a look:

• • • • SUB HARDCODES - - - -
        --standard
        Quick hardcoded preset to split lines in standard way.
        42 chars per 2 lines with max_comma_cent=70 and
        --sentence are activated automatically. (default: False)

--standard_asia
'Quick hardcoded preset to split lines in standard way
for some Asian languages. 16 chars per 2 lines with
max_comma_cent=80 and --sentence are activated
automatically. (default: False)

• • • • SUBTITLES EDIT - - - -
        --sentence
        Enables splitting lines to sentences for srt and vtt
        subs. Every sentence starts in the new segment. By
        default meant to output whole sentence per line for
        better translations, but not limited to, read about '
        --max_...' parameters. Note: has no effect on
        'highlight_words'. (default: False)

--max_comma
(requires --sentence) After this line length a comma
is treated as the end of sentence. Note: disabled if
it's over or equal to --max_line_width. (default: 250)

--max_comma_cent {50,60,70,80,90,100}
(requires --sentence) Percentage of --max_line_width
when it starts breaking the line after comma. Note:
100 = disabled. (default: 100)

--max_gap
(requires --sentence) Threshold for a gap length in
seconds, longer gaps are treated as dots. (default: 3.0)

--max_line_width
The maximum number of characters in a line before
breaking the line. (default: 1000)

--max_line_count
The maximum number of lines in one sub segment.
(default: 1)

--min_dist_to_end {0,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12}
(requires --sentence) If from words like 'the', 'Mr.'
and ect. to the end of line distance is less than set
then it starts in a new line. Note: 0 = disabled.
(default: 0)

Hardcodes tries : --standard and --standard_asia

--output_format vtt
--sentence
--max_comma
--max_comma_cent {50,60,70,80,90,100}
--max_gap
--max_line_width
--max_line_count
--min_dist_to_end {0,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12}

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Purfview
on Dec 31, 2024
Maintainer
"Best" is what is best for you.
Read about --sentence, --standard, --max_line_width & ect...

[Purfview]

Btw, you can output JSON, then you can input that JSON into Faster-Whisper-XXL later and use different "subtitles fixing" options.
New output is instant as you don't need to re-transcribe it again.

[JesusGod-Pope666-Info]

Oh.... is there a way then to output the JSON and the VTT file and not all of them?
I kinda am tried the Standard_Asia and Standard and without it..... Standard was clearly the best of the 3.

But..... Yea sorting out some customization

This should be sorta the standard but have not tried it yet:
--sentence --max_line_width 42 --max_line_count 2 --max_comma_cent 70

Just trying to get the hang of it.

[JesusGod-Pope666-Info]

Can you just have the JSON files in a place and then.... I guess so, I will try.

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./fwx "media/Alan Lamont test" -o "media/Alan Lamont test" -v true -m large-v2 --output_format vtt json -l en --standard

It worked, it created both vtt and json file.

[JesusGod-Pope666-Info]

Apparently the audioMotion does not support srt but vtt - not sure about my other player where I tested with srt.
Although not sure which format is better anyway, it seems vtt don't have numbering while srt do - and that might make editing worse if numbering is required for srt as vtt has none of that.

Don't know much of subtitle formats, but I did use srt in my main media player, but the other one only does vtt...... but might be overall better anyway. Not sure.