[LAU] OT? Downloaded youtube videos with subtitles

On 4/13/14, Ivan K wrote:
>
> I was very excited to find a video of the complete
> Tristan and Isolde on YouTube recently, complete with
> English subtitles.
>
> I used the youtube-dl utility to grab the video, but
> when I began playing the copy on my hard-drive with
> totem, to my horror, the English subtitles were
> not there! To repeat, the subtitles are on
> youtube.com but not in the .webm file that I
> downloaded with youtube-dl.
>
> Can someone coach me how to download a version
> with the English subtitles?

Take a look at 'youtube-dl --help' or 'man youtube-dl', specifically
at the 'Subtitle Options' section.

$ youtube-dl --list-subs <URL>

$ youtube-dl --write-sub --sub-lang en <URL>

The latter command will produce two files, the video and an .srt file
containing the English subtitles.

best,
 -d
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Received on Mon Apr 14 04:15:02 2014