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SBV Captions (YouTube)

A YouTube SBV caption file — start,end timestamp lines followed by caption text — carrying the same three captions, for testing SBV parsers and YouTube caption import.

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Welcome to Novus Examples.

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These are free sample subtitle files.

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Use them to test parsers, players, and converters.

Specifications

Format
YouTube SBV
Cues
3
Timing
H:MM:SS.mmm,H:MM:SS.mmm
Captions
same as the SRT/VTT twins

What is a .sbv file?

SBV (.sbv) is the simple caption format used by YouTube's Studio. Each cue is a start,end timestamp line (H:MM:SS.mmm) followed by the caption text, with a blank line between cues. It has no styling — just timings and text.

How to use this file

Use an example .sbv file to test caption parsers, YouTube caption import, and conversion between SBV, SRT, and VTT.

Generated by generation/subtitles_extra.py. Free for any use, no attribution required — license.