Turn EBU-STL subtitles into CSV. It is converted in your browser, so the file never leaves your device.
Drop EBU-STL files here
or choose from your computer paste with Ctrl V
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Ready · several at once0 bytes uploaded, ever
Drop EBU-STL (STL, Tech 3264) files onto the box above, or click it to choose them. ToAny reads the file's contents to detect the type, so a wrong extension does not matter.
Press Convert. There is nothing else to set. The work happens in this tab.
Save the CSV, or download everything as one ZIP if you converted several files.
The EBU-STL to CSV converter is part of this page and runs inside your browser. Your subtitles are never sent to ToAny or to anyone else.
Nothing has to travel to a server and back, so the conversion starts the moment you press Convert, even on a slow connection.
No sign-up, no email address and no watermark. Add several files and download them together as a ZIP.
EBU STL is a binary file that web players and most consumer apps cannot read. CSV is plain text that every spreadsheet, database and script can read. EBU-STL is at home in subtitles delivered to European broadcasters; CSV is the usual choice for moving tabular data between systems.
Only Latin-alphabet EBU STL files are read. Colours, boxes and double-height text are dropped; italics, underline, line breaks, position and justification are kept, and times are shifted back by the programme start the header declares. The result has the columns index, start, end and text, with times as HH:MM:SS.mmm, and starts with a byte-order mark so Excel reads accented letters correctly.
EBU STL, defined in EBU Tech 3264, is the binary subtitle file of European broadcasters: a 1024-byte header followed by 128-byte blocks, each holding the in and out timecodes, position, justification and teletext-style text of one subtitle. It is usually named .stl, which is also the extension of 3D printing files, so ToAny tells them apart by the header inside.
Opens in Broadcast subtitling systems, Subtitle Edit, Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve
EBU-STL converterCSV is a table written as text: one row per line, values separated by commas. Every spreadsheet and database can import and export it, but it holds one sheet only and no formatting, formulas or data types.
Opens in Excel, Google Sheets, Numbers, databases and any text editor
CSV converter| EBU-STLEBU STL subtitles | CSVCSV spreadsheet | |
|---|---|---|
| Stands for | EBU Subtitling data exchange format (STL) | Comma-Separated Values |
| Type | Subtitles | Plain-text table |
| Compression | None (binary) | None |
| Introduced | 1991, by the European Broadcasting Union | The 1970s, by no single author (described in RFC 4180) |
| Opens in | Broadcast subtitling systems, Subtitle Edit, Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve | Excel, Google Sheets, Numbers, databases and any text editor |
| Best for | Subtitles delivered to European broadcasters | Moving tabular data between systems |
| File extension | .ebustl | .csv |
No. The EBU-STL to CSV conversion runs inside your browser, on your own phone or computer. The file is not sent to ToAny or to anyone else.
The content is carried over as faithfully as CSV allows; features that CSV does not have are left out.
Yes. Add as many as you like, convert them together and download each result or all of them as one ZIP.
The steps are the same everywhere because ToAny runs in the web browser: open this page in a current version of Chrome, Edge, Safari or Firefox, add the EBU-STL file, press Convert and save the CSV. There is nothing to install.
Yes, but a subtitle file is small. Files up to 50 MB are accepted, far more than any real subtitle file. Beyond that the limit is your device's memory, since nothing is uploaded; a computer copes with large files better than a phone.