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node-webvtt-youtube

v1.0.0

Published

WebVTT parser and segmenter with HLS support(Youtube support)

Downloads

8

Readme

WebVTT parser and segmenter(Youtube Support)

Parse WebVTT files, segments and generates HLS playlists for them.

Usage

For a WebVTT file:

WEBVTT

00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:01.000
Hello world!

00:00:30.000 --> 00:00:31.000 align:start line:0%
This is a subtitle

00:01:00.000 --> 00:01:01.000
Foo

00:01:50.000 --> 00:01:51.000
Bar

We can parse, segment and create HLS playlists:

const webvtt = require('node-webvtt');

const segmentDuration = 10; // default to 10
const startOffset = 0; // Starting MPEG TS offset to be used in timestamp map, default 900000

const parsed = webvtt.parse(input);
const segmented = webvtt.parse(input, segmentDuration);
const playlist = webvtt.hls.hlsSegmentPlaylist(input, segmentDuration);
const segments = webvtt.hls.hlsSegment(input, segmentDuration, startOffset);

Parsing

Parses the WebVTT file and returns an object with valid === true if parsed correctly and an array of cues parsed.

Each cue can have:* identifier - Id, if any of the cue* start - Start time of cue in seconds* end - End time of cue in seconds* text - Text of the subtitle* styles - If any of the cue

If the WebVTT file is invalid, the parser will throw a ParserError exception. So for safety, calls to parse should be in try catch.

For the above example we'd get:

{
   "valid":true,
   "cues":[
      {
         "identifier":"",
         "start":0,
         "end":1,
         "text":"Hello world!",
         "styles":""
      },
      {
         "identifier":"",
         "start":30,
         "end":31,
         "text":"This is a subtitle",
         "styles":"align:start line:0%"
      },
      {
         "identifier":"",
         "start":60,
         "end":61,
         "text":"Foo",
         "styles":""
      },
      {
         "identifier":"",
         "start":110,
         "end":111,
         "text":"Bar",
         "styles":""
      }
   ]
}

Segmenting

Segments a subtitle according to how it should be segmented for HLS subtitles.

  • Does a one pass of the cues for segmenting, this might have been a good idea or bad, only time will tell
  • The One and Only Source of Truth is Apple's mediasubtitlesegmenter CLI

For the above example:

[
    { duration: 10, cues: [ [Object] ] },
    { duration: 30, cues: [ [Object] ] },
    { duration: 30, cues: [ [Object] ] },
    { duration: 41, cues: [ [Object] ] }
]

HLS playlist

Creates a subtitle playlist. For the above:

#EXTM3U
#EXT-X-TARGETDURATION:41
#EXT-X-VERSION:3
#EXT-X-MEDIA-SEQUENCE:0
#EXT-X-PLAYLIST-TYPE:VOD
#EXTINF:10.00000,
0.vtt
#EXTINF:30.00000,
1.vtt
#EXTINF:30.00000,
2.vtt
#EXTINF:41.00000,
3.vtt
#EXT-X-ENDLIST

HLS Segments

Creates a list of HLS segments for the subtitles, returning an array of them with filename and content.

[
   {
      "filename":"0.vtt",
      "content":"WEBVTT\nX-TIMESTAMP-MAP=MPEGTS:900000,LOCAL:00:00:00.000\n\n00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:01.000\nHello world!\n"
   },
   {
      "filename":"1.vtt",
      "content":"WEBVTT\nX-TIMESTAMP-MAP=MPEGTS:900000,LOCAL:00:00:00.000\n\n00:00:30.000 --> 00:00:31.000 align:start line:0%\nThis is a subtitle\n"
   },
   {
      "filename":"2.vtt",
      "content":"WEBVTT\nX-TIMESTAMP-MAP=MPEGTS:900000,LOCAL:00:00:00.000\n\n00:01:00.000 --> 00:01:01.000\nFoo\n"
   },
   {
      "filename":"3.vtt",
      "content":"WEBVTT\nX-TIMESTAMP-MAP=MPEGTS:900000,LOCAL:00:00:00.000\n\n00:01:50.000 --> 00:01:51.000\nBar\n"
   }
]

CLI

For segmenting a WebVTT file quickly, you can use the included CLI tool:

$ ./webvtt-segment.js -v --target-duration 10 -o ./subs subs.vtt
% ./webvtt-segment.js --help

  Usage: webvtt-segment [options] <webvtt file>

  Options:

    -h, --help                        output usage information
    -V, --version                     output the version number
    -t, --target-duration [duration]  Target duration for each segment in secods, defaults to 10
    -o, --output-directory [dir]      Output directory for segments and playlist
    -v, --verbose                     Chatty output
    -s, --silent                      No output

Development

This has been written with TDD so we've got a good coverage of the features.

npm install
npm test
mocha -w
<write failing test>
<write passing code>
<lather, rinse, repeat>

TODO

  • [ ] Remove valid from parsing result, having a result means it's valid
  • [ ] Add more options to control output
  • [ ] Better parsing
  • [ ] Support more subtitles formats (at least SRT, maybe SSA/ASS)
  • [ ] Iron out segmenting bugs with real playlists
  • [ ] Refactor the mess that is the segmenter (yay, unit tests!)
  • [ ] Nicer interface, don't be parsing again and again
  • [ ] Do something to make the cli tool more accessible
  • [ ] Code coverage reporting

References