GerardSoleCa / katsuben

Multiplatform subtitle converter using LibSE (Subtitle Edit)

Katsuben

Benshi (弁士) were Japanese performers who provided live narration for silent films (both Japanese films and Western films). Benshi are sometimes called katsudō-benshi (活動弁士) or katsuben (活弁). wiki

This little cli-tool is based in SubtitleEdit. Which at the release of this software the CLI Converter was not totally platform-independant.

Run this software

You can download a binary specific for your platform in the Releases page (not yet there). Then you can just run katsuben like this:

Windows

katsuben -i input_subtitle.srt -o vtt

MacOS and Linux

./katsuben -i input_subtitle.srt -o vtt

The result of this command will leave in the same directory, used for the input, a new file with the converted subtitle.

Find more information on how to use the tool with the help command:

./katsuben -h

katsuben:
  Subtitle Converter using LibSE (Subtitle Edit)

Usage:
  katsuben [options]

Options:
  -i, --input <input> (REQUIRED)      The input subtitle to be converted
  -o, --output <output> (REQUIRED)    The output subtitle format extension to be converted
  -e, --encoding <encoding>           The encoding for the output file (default: utf-8) [default: utf-8]
  --version                           Show version information
  -?, -h, --help                      Show help and usage information

Note for developers

Katsuben requires NET5.0 or higher for development and executions with platform dependant binaries.

You can contribute to this project by opening a Pull Requests or an Issue.