Extracting, adding and deleting closed captions from videos
ffmpeg install
ccextractor install
youtube-dl pkg install
Youtube-dl manual install
Manually install youtube-dl using pip on Freebsd
Install python 3.6 and pip and mpv
mpv will install the youtube-dl package, but we will install a more up to date version using pip
mpv will then use the manually installed version of youtube-dl
add the python bin to your shell path
add the following code to your ~/.bashrc if uisng bash,
or to your ~/.zshrc file if your are using the zsh shell
source your ~/.bashrc if you are using the bash shell
or source your ~/.zshrc file in using the zsh shell
youtube-dl install
youtube-dl upgrade
youtube-dl uninstall
youtube-dl download subtitles from video
youtube-dl batch download subtitles from a text file with youtube urls
Where links.txt is a text file with youtube video urls
Convert the vtt subtitles from youtube to srt format
Batch convert vtt subtitles to srt format
Extract closed captions
Extract closed captions from a video with ccextractor
This will create a .scc captions file which we can convert to srt format with ffmpeg
convert scc closed captions to srt subtitles,
and remove text formatting and font tags for youtube
Batch convert scc closed captions to srt format
remove close captions
remove close captions from video without re encode
ffmpeg add subtitles to video
Add a subtitles track to a video from a srt subtitles file
note this does not burn in the subtitles over the video,
it creates a subtitles track that the user can enable to show the subtitles
ffmpeg install
Bash:
# pkg install ffmpeg
ccextractor install
Bash:
# pkg install ccextractor
youtube-dl pkg install
Bash:
# pkg install youtube-dl
Youtube-dl manual install
Manually install youtube-dl using pip on Freebsd
Install python 3.6 and pip and mpv
Bash:
# pkg install python36 py36-pip mpv
mpv will install the youtube-dl package, but we will install a more up to date version using pip
mpv will then use the manually installed version of youtube-dl
add the python bin to your shell path
add the following code to your ~/.bashrc if uisng bash,
or to your ~/.zshrc file if your are using the zsh shell
Bash:
# home local python bin
if [ -d "$HOME/.local/bin" ]; then
PATH="$HOME/.local/bin:$PATH"
fi
source your ~/.bashrc if you are using the bash shell
Bash:
source ~/.bashrc
or source your ~/.zshrc file in using the zsh shell
Bash:
source ~/.zshrc
youtube-dl install
Bash:
pip-3.6 install --user youtube_dl
youtube-dl upgrade
Bash:
pip-3.6 install --upgrade --user youtube_dl
youtube-dl uninstall
Bash:
pip-3.6 uninstall youtube_dl
youtube-dl download subtitles from video
Bash:
youtube-dl --write-sub --sub-lang en --skip-download 'youtube-video-url'
youtube-dl batch download subtitles from a text file with youtube urls
Bash:
youtube-dl --write-sub --sub-lang en --skip-download -a links.txt
Where links.txt is a text file with youtube video urls
Convert the vtt subtitles from youtube to srt format
Bash:
ffmpeg -i infile.vtt -c:s text outfile.srt
Batch convert vtt subtitles to srt format
Bash:
find . -type f -name "*.vtt" -exec sh -c 'ffmpeg -i "$0" \
-c:s text "${0%.*}.srt"' "{}" \;
Extract closed captions
Extract closed captions from a video with ccextractor
Bash:
ccextractor infile.mp4
This will create a .scc captions file which we can convert to srt format with ffmpeg
convert scc closed captions to srt subtitles,
and remove text formatting and font tags for youtube
Bash:
ffmpeg -i infile.scc -c:s text outfile.srt
Batch convert scc closed captions to srt format
Bash:
find . -type f -name "*.scc" -exec sh -c 'ffmpeg -i "$0" \
-c:s text "${0%.*}.srt"' "{}" \;
remove close captions
remove close captions from video without re encode
Bash:
ffmpeg -i infile.mp4 \
-c copy \
-bsf:v "filter_units=remove_type=6" \
-movflags +faststart \
outfile.mp4
ffmpeg add subtitles to video
Add a subtitles track to a video from a srt subtitles file
note this does not burn in the subtitles over the video,
it creates a subtitles track that the user can enable to show the subtitles
Bash:
ffmpeg -i infile.mp4 \
-f srt -i infile.srt \
-c:a copy -c:v copy -c:s \
mov_text -metadata:s:s:0 \
language=eng \
-movflags +faststart \
outfile.mp4