Turn EBU-STL subtitles into SBV. 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
from Photos or Files
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 SBV, or download everything as one ZIP if you converted several files.
The EBU-STL to SBV 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. SBV imports directly into YouTube Studio. EBU-STL is at home in subtitles delivered to European broadcasters; SBV is the usual choice for uploading and downloading YouTube captions.
Of the styling, only italic, bold, underline and the position on screen (top, middle or bottom, left, centre or right) travel between formats; fonts, colours, outlines and effects do not. 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. YouTube's SBV has no styling and no positions, so the result holds the text and times only.
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 converterSBV is the plain caption format YouTube exports and accepts: a time range such as 0:00:01.000,0:00:04.000 followed by the text. It carries no styling and few other programs read it.
Opens in YouTube Studio and some caption tools; few media players
SBV converter| EBU-STLEBU STL subtitles | SBVYouTube SBV subtitles | |
|---|---|---|
| Stands for | EBU Subtitling data exchange format (STL) | YouTube caption file |
| Type | Subtitles | Subtitles |
| Compression | None (binary) | None |
| Introduced | 1991, by the European Broadcasting Union | The late 2000s, by Google (YouTube) |
| Opens in | Broadcast subtitling systems, Subtitle Edit, Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve | YouTube Studio and some caption tools; few media players |
| Best for | Subtitles delivered to European broadcasters | Uploading and downloading YouTube captions |
| File extension | .ebustl | .sbv |
No. The EBU-STL to SBV conversion runs inside your browser, on your own phone or computer. The file is not sent to ToAny or to anyone else.
No further quality is lost: SBV stores the decoded audio exactly. The result is identical in content.
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 SBV. 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.