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  • Extract subtitles from a movie file and save it as an .srt file using Bash

    Extract subtitles from a movie file and save it as an .srt file using Bash

    The film industry in Germany is definitely not Hollywood, but every now and then, there’s a movie that’s worth watching, e.g., “Glauben” (English: “The Allegation”) or “Terror” (“The Verdict”), both by the writer and lawyer Ferdinand von Schirach—that my non-German wife doesn’t understand.

    Luckily, the German media libraries of public broadcast channels come with subtitles—in German, but those can be translated easily online if you extract the .srt subtitle file from it. Here’s how.

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