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VTT to TTML converter, without the upload.

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

Drop VTT files here

or choose from your computer paste with Ctrl V

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How to convert VTT to TTML

  1. Add your VTT subtitles

    Drop VTT (WebVTT) 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. TTML is already chosen

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

  3. Download

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

Why ToAny

  • Private by construction

    The VTT to TTML 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.

VTT to TTML: what to expect

VTT is less widely accepted than SRT by desktop players and editors. TTML is accepted by broadcast and streaming platforms. VTT is at home in captions on web pages and in HTML video players; TTML is the usual choice for subtitles delivered to broadcasters and streaming services.

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. WebVTT comments, STYLE blocks and region definitions are skipped; the cues, their text and positions are kept. Positions are written as TTML regions and italic, bold and underline as styled spans; the result is a plain TTML file with no broadcast-specific profile.

VTT vs TTML

VTT

WebVTT subtitles

WebVTT 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
TTML

TTML subtitles

TTML is the W3C's XML subtitle format. Streaming services and broadcasters deliver captions in TTML profiles such as IMSC. It can describe regions, styles and timing precisely, but it is verbose, and many consumer players do not read it. DFXP is an earlier profile of it.

Opens in Broadcast and streaming systems, Apple and Netflix workflows, and some video players

TTML converter
VTT compared with TTML
VTTWebVTT subtitlesTTMLTTML subtitles
Stands forWeb Video Text TracksTimed Text Markup Language
TypeSubtitlesSubtitles
CompressionNoneNone (XML text)
Introduced2010, by the WHATWG and W3C2010, by the W3C
Opens inWeb browsers (the HTML track element), YouTube, Vimeo, VLC and streaming playersBroadcast and streaming systems, Apple and Netflix workflows, and some video players
Best forCaptions on web pages and in HTML video playersSubtitles delivered to broadcasters and streaming services
File extension.vtt, .webvtt.ttml, .dfxp

Questions

Are my subtitles uploaded anywhere?

No. The VTT to TTML 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 VTT to TTML?

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

Can I convert several VTT 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 VTT to TTML 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 VTT file, press Convert and save the TTML. 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.