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SRT to SMI converter, without the upload.

Turn SRT subtitles into SMI. It is converted in your browser, so the file never leaves your device.

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How to convert SRT to SMI

  1. Add your SRT subtitles

    Drop SRT (SubRip) 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.

  2. SMI is already chosen

    Press Convert. There is nothing else to set. The work happens in this tab.

  3. Download

    Save the SMI, or download everything as one ZIP if you converted several files.

Why ToAny

  • Private by construction

    The SRT to SMI converter is part of this page and runs inside your browser. Your subtitles are never sent to ToAny or to anyone else.

  • No upload, no queue

    Nothing has to travel to a server and back, so the conversion starts the moment you press Convert, even on a slow connection.

  • Free, without an account

    No sign-up, no email address and no watermark. Add several files and download them together as a ZIP.

SRT to SMI: what to expect

SRT has almost no styling or positioning, and character encoding problems are common. SMI can carry several languages in one file for the players that read it. SRT is at home in subtitles that must work almost everywhere; SMI is the usual choice for subtitles for Korean-market players and multilingual files.

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. The file is written with one language class, and cues that overlap in time are shown together, as SAMI has a single timeline.

SRT vs SMI

SRT

SubRip subtitles

SRT 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

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SMI

SAMI subtitles

SAMI is an HTML-like subtitle format from Microsoft, with each cue a SYNC tag holding the start time in milliseconds. It can hold several languages in one file, selected by style class. It is most common in South Korea.

Opens in Windows Media Player, KMPlayer, PotPlayer, VLC and Korean-market players

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SRT compared with SMI
SRTSubRip subtitlesSMISAMI subtitles
Stands forSubRip subtitleSynchronized Accessible Media Interchange
TypeSubtitlesSubtitles
CompressionNoneNone
IntroducedAround 2000, by the SubRip program (no formal standard)The late 1990s, by Microsoft
Opens inVLC, YouTube, Plex, most players and video editorsWindows Media Player, KMPlayer, PotPlayer, VLC and Korean-market players
Best forSubtitles that must work almost everywhereSubtitles for Korean-market players and multilingual files
File extension.srt.smi, .sami

Questions

Are my subtitles uploaded anywhere?

No. The SRT to SMI conversion runs inside your browser, on your own phone or computer. The file is not sent to ToAny or to anyone else.

Is anything lost when converting SRT to SMI?

No further quality is lost: SMI stores the decoded audio exactly. The result is identical in content.

Can I convert several SRT files at once?

Yes. Add as many as you like, convert them together and download each result or all of them as one ZIP.

How do I convert SRT to SMI on Windows, Mac, iPhone or Android?

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 SRT file, press Convert and save the SMI. There is nothing to install.

Is there a file size limit?

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.