Turn YouTube SBV captions into SRT. It is converted in your browser, so the file never leaves your device.
Drop SBV files here
or choose from your computer paste with Ctrl V
from Photos or Files
Ready · other file types work too0 bytes uploaded, ever
Drop SBV 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 SRT, or download everything as one ZIP if you converted several files.
The SBV to SRT converter is part of this page and runs inside your browser. Your captions 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.
SBV is the plain caption file YouTube Studio exports and accepts, and few other programs read it. SRT is understood by nearly every player and editor, so converting is how a YouTube caption track gets reused elsewhere.
The text is read as UTF-8 or UTF-16, whichever the file is. An older file in another code page is read using the charset it declares, or as Windows-1252 if it declares none, so accented letters in an unlabelled legacy file can come out wrong. A file that is not text, such as the picture-based subtitles of a DVD, is refused instead of being converted to nonsense. 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. Positioned lines are written with {\an} codes, which many players honour; players that do not simply show them at the bottom.
SBV 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 converterSRT is the plain subtitle format nearly every player accepts: a number, a time range such as 00:01:02,500 --> 00:01:04,000 and one or two lines of text. It has no official specification and only basic styling, which is why it travels so well.
Opens in VLC, YouTube, Plex, most players and video editors
SRT converter| SBVYouTube SBV subtitles | SRTSubRip subtitles | |
|---|---|---|
| Stands for | YouTube caption file | SubRip subtitle |
| Type | Subtitles | Subtitles |
| Compression | None | None |
| Introduced | The late 2000s, by Google (YouTube) | Around 2000, by the SubRip program (no formal standard) |
| Opens in | YouTube Studio and some caption tools; few media players | VLC, YouTube, Plex, most players and video editors |
| Best for | Uploading and downloading YouTube captions | Subtitles that must work almost everywhere |
| File extension | .sbv | .srt |
No. The SBV to SRT 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: SRT 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 SBV file, press Convert and save the SRT. 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.