Why do I see tags like in my player?

That is WebVTT voice markup in an SRT player. Converting with this tool strips it.

Can I go back to VTT?

Yes, the same subtitle panel converts SRT to WebVTT.

Is the file uploaded?

No. It is converted in your browser.

Convert WebVTT subtitles to SRT

Turn a .vtt caption file into a SubRip .srt for VLC, video editors and TVs. In your browser, nothing uploaded.

YouTube downloads and web players give you WebVTT, but desktop players, editing software and smart TVs usually want SubRip .srt. The converter renumbers the cues from 1, switches the timestamps to SRT's comma format, and accepts the short mm:ss.ttt timestamps WebVTT allows.

WebVTT can do things SRT can't: cue positioning settings, NOTE and STYLE blocks, voice tags and inline formatting. Those have no SRT equivalent, so they are removed rather than left in the file where a player would show them as literal text on screen.

The direction is read from the file itself — a WEBVTT signature wins over the file extension — so a misnamed file still converts the right way.

Worth knowing. Positioning is lost going to SRT, since the format has no way to express it. If captions were placed at the top of the frame to avoid on-screen text, they'll return to the player's default position.

Questions

Why do I see tags like <v Speaker> in my player?: That is WebVTT voice markup in an SRT player. Converting with this tool strips it.
Can I go back to VTT?: Yes, the same subtitle panel converts SRT to WebVTT.
Is the file uploaded?: No. It is converted in your browser.

Everything the converter reads and writes →

Runs entirely in your browser. The file is never uploaded, so there is nothing for us to store, log or lose. No account, no watermark, no size paywall.