[4/14/15] Ugh, now Google2SRT isn't working on the latest Cesar 911 (Kicked to the Curb). But keepsubs seems to be working now. Wait Keepsubs worked on TilleandLeo but not on this new video. Maybe they changed the format again? Well it works on the latest Return of Superman. I dunno. Oh, well, I guess I could buy the episode. Or hope Netflix gets season 2 next year.
Wait, tried Google2SRT again and changed the directory saved to temp. This time it worked! I was getting an error earlier saying something about file permissions. Maybe because I was downloading the video to the same directory?
[3/28/15] A new Cesar 911 video came out, but KeepSubs apparently isn't working on youtube now. Youtube must have changed their format, which makes sense because Freemake Video Downloader doesn't work on youtube any more either. I now use Video DownloadHelper which is a firefox add-on.
What to do? Well, this site suggests to use Google2SRT as a third option. (Their first option was KeepSubs and their second option didn't work.) And it worked! Thanks whoever made (and updates) this.
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[5/14/14] Some youtube videos have captions, but when you download them the caption information isn't downloaded.
I wondered if it was possible to also download the caption information so that when you play them on your computer the captions also play.
Let's look. The first link goes to this youtube video which tells you to use this website, but it didn't work for me. However one of the comments told me to go to this wikihow article which links to Subtitle Downloader.
Try that. Paste in url. Go. Choose Language. English. File is ready. Click on the icon. Do you want to open or save xyz123.srt from www.subtitledownloader.com. Save as. Save in the folder you want. Rename (or save as) to the same name as the video.
Play in VLC. Cool!
Got a different prompt when I tried Subtitle Downloader on Firefox (I first tried on Internet Explorer). There was no option to Save As, so it saved it in my download folder. So had to move it from the download folder and then rename it. Same with Chrome. So here's something that Internet Explorer is useful for.
As a bonus, the subtitles look better (to me) on VLC than on youtube. On some youtube videos (especially from natgeowild), the captions are way at the top edge or the bottom edge. When viewing the downloaded videos, the captions are in the normal place - at the bottom, but not at the bottom edge.
I wonder if this will work on plex? Cross fingers. Yay! And it uses the Roku system captions, so actually looks better than the youtube app captions.
Well partially yay. For some reason, some of the videos aren't finding the captions file. And sometimes Plex takes a long time to find the video.
*** 10/4/14
Saw some Dog Whisperer episodes not taken off by natgeowild, so went to download them. But when I went download the subtitles, the subtitledownloader.com site no longer exists. :(
See some programs available but no website (so far).
OK, keepsubs.com works!
As a bonus, the subtitles look better (to me) on VLC than on youtube. On some youtube videos (especially from natgeowild), the captions are way at the top edge or the bottom edge. When viewing the downloaded videos, the captions are in the normal place - at the bottom, but not at the bottom edge.
I wonder if this will work on plex? Cross fingers. Yay! And it uses the Roku system captions, so actually looks better than the youtube app captions.
Well partially yay. For some reason, some of the videos aren't finding the captions file. And sometimes Plex takes a long time to find the video.
*** 10/4/14
Saw some Dog Whisperer episodes not taken off by natgeowild, so went to download them. But when I went download the subtitles, the subtitledownloader.com site no longer exists. :(
See some programs available but no website (so far).
OK, keepsubs.com works!
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