The thumbnail image is a screenshot from a Youtube video, for a song. the lyrics in gold color are Youtube closed captions, they look cool and stylish right? This is common in videos of 4K scaled anime openings. Can I get these offline? I know I can download videos using yt-dlp, and include subtitles in the container using the --embed-subs flag, I think you can also download subtitle files in vtt extension, but VLC can't read them I think.
I didn't include a link cuz it might become a hustle for dbzer0, but since some are asking here you go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXzoiiZo5LA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StLX4kITjWU
there were better ones (Kaguya-sama openings) but I can't find them anymore on Youtube, stupid copyrights, thus my obsession of hoarding what I like
Update: @Majestic@lemmy.ml provided the solution,
1- download the subtitle file in vtt format using yt-dlp:
yt-dlp --skip-download --embed-subs https://youtu.be/5i3pX-2NLKk?si=waYB6Jv4d6gxsVuh
2- use Subtitle Edit's batch converter tool to convert the vtt file into .ass format
3- now just import it on VLC while watching your downloaded video, the subtitles will appear in the same styling as on Youtube, additionally you can embed them to the video container using ffmpeg
I really want to know how to extract them as well. I paid for a movie on YouTube since it was available nowhere else and yt wouldn't let me download it without DRM, so I just OBS'd the whole thing.
I had captions on, so they're baked in. I really like captions, but it would be nice to have the option to turn them off.
update: a solution was provided and I edited the post
Awesome! I'll check this out!!
feel free to dm/reply if a problem is faced, also r/youtubedl has a mod who answers almost every question