Turn SBV captions into VTT. 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 VTT, or download everything as one ZIP if you converted several files.
The SBV to VTT 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 understood mainly by YouTube and a few caption tools. VTT is what web video players and browsers display natively. SBV is at home in uploading and downloading YouTube captions; VTT is the usual choice for captions on web pages and in HTML video players.
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. Top and middle positions and left or right alignment are written as WebVTT cue settings.
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 converterWebVTT is the caption format of HTML5 video. It looks like SRT with a WEBVTT header and a full stop in the timestamps, but also supports positioning, styling with CSS, chapters and metadata. Browsers display it natively.
Opens in Web browsers (the HTML track element), YouTube, Vimeo, VLC and streaming players
VTT converter| SBVYouTube SBV subtitles | VTTWebVTT subtitles | |
|---|---|---|
| Stands for | YouTube caption file | Web Video Text Tracks |
| Type | Subtitles | Subtitles |
| Compression | None | None |
| Introduced | The late 2000s, by Google (YouTube) | 2010, by the WHATWG and W3C |
| Opens in | YouTube Studio and some caption tools; few media players | Web browsers (the HTML track element), YouTube, Vimeo, VLC and streaming players |
| Best for | Uploading and downloading YouTube captions | Captions on web pages and in HTML video players |
| File extension | .sbv | .vtt, .webvtt |
No. The SBV to VTT 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: VTT 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 VTT. 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.