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Is it possible to keep youtube videos AND their stylish captions for myself offline?

The thumbnail image is a screenshot from a Youtube video, for a song. the lyrics in gold color are Youtube closed captions, they look cool and stylish right? This is common in videos of 4K scaled anime openings. Can I get these offline? I know I can download videos using yt-dlp, and include subtitles in the container using the –embed-subs flag, I think you can also download subtitle files in vtt extension, but VLC can’t read them I think.

unknowing8343 ,

Link us to one of these examples, it doesn’t seem that hard to get

ZWQbpkzl ,

Two ideas:

  1. Get the subtitles burned into the video. Hopefully this will preserve the styling but you’ll loose the ability to disable or control the subtitles after the fact.
  2. Download the subtitles as a separate file and configure them to be displayed the same way after the fact. This means figuring out their colors yourself etc. Hopefully you can save those defaults to subtitle file, depending on the format. Most subtitle formats are plain text, so there might just be some metadata field you enter at the top.

All just speculation though. I don’t actually know subtitle file formats etc.

dabaldeagul ,
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Are these the web based captions? I didn’t know you could have those in 2 locations at the same time (top and bottom)… That’s neat. But it does make me think they’re baked into the video, in which case they’d always be included if you download them.

jlow ,

Maybe check other players if they can display them correctly? Not sure if mpv can butt that’s what I’d try first.

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