CorbinDallas/node-captions

NodeJS module for converting captions from one format to another.

Synopsis

node-captions is a simple module set to convert from one caption to another. Currently only supports (SCC | SRT) -> SRT | VTT | SAMI | TTML | SMPTE-TT.

Code Example

Conversion from SCC to SRT

var captions = require('node-captions'),
    fs = require('fs');
captions.scc.read('path/to/scc/file.scc', {}, function (err, data) {
    if (err) { throw err; }
    fs.writeFile('path/to/srt/file.srt', captions.srt.generate(captions.scc.toJSON(data), function(err, result) {
        if (err) { throw err; }
    });
});

Read SCC adjust by X and write out SRT with adjusted data

var captions = require('node-captions'),
    fs = require('fs');
captions.scc.read('path/to/scc/file.scc', {}, function (err, data) {
    if (err) { throw err; }
    captions.time.adjust('300', 'seconds', captions.scc.toJSON(data), function (err, adjustedCaptions) {
        if (err) { throw err; }
        fs.writeFile('path/to/srt/file.srt', captions.srt.generate(adjustedCaptions), function(err, result) {
            if (err) { throw err; }
        });
    });
});

Motivation

This project was created so a nodeJS application can do stuff with caption files to support different players. Big thanks to pycaption for being the standard for quite some time and having the needed maps for the SCC conversion. Some of the features I added in the headers and such (check the config dir) may need to be tuned to your liking, the ones there work for me and seem to work for the players I have tested.

Installation

npm install node-captions

API Reference

npm jsdoc

Tests

npm test

Contributors

Feel free to send pull requests in a branch.

License

node-captions' MIT License