Re-adjusting out-of-sync subtitles.
Re-adjusting out-of-sync subtitles. Have you ever downloaded a .srt file only to find out that it is out of sync ? Even a small delay can be intolerable. Back in the day, I used VLC to readjust the subtitles in real-time. But since there wasn't a way (that I know of) to save the changes, I decided to look elsewhere. For a while I wondered how easy it would be to make a script for this simple task. After looking into it, it turned out, to my surprise, that the SRT file format is quite simple. It is composed of fragments that are formatted like this : N HH:MM:SS,mmm --> HH:MM:SS,mmm Actual subtitle It starts with a number N that identifies the fragment. This number starts from 1 and keeps incrementing for each subtitle that's displayed on screen. A line with two timestamps follows. These represent the time during which the subtitle will be displayed. Note that these are somewhat precise as they also include milliseconds. The third line contains the actual subtitle, an