NAME

       srt-deduplicate - SRT subtitle processing tool

DESCRIPTION

       usage: srt deduplicate [-h] [--input FILE] [--output FILE] [--inplace]

       [--no-strict] [--debug] [--ignore-parsing-errors]
              [--encoding ENCODING] [-t MILLISECONDS]

       Deduplicate repeated subtitles.

   options:
       -h, --help
              show this help message and exit

       --input FILE, -i FILE
              the file to process (default: stdin)

       --output FILE, -o FILE
              the file to write to (default: stdout)

       --inplace, -p
              modify file in place

       --no-strict
              allow blank lines in output, your media player may explode

       --debug
              enable debug logging

       --ignore-parsing-errors, -c
              try to keep going, even if there are parsing errors

       --encoding ENCODING, -e ENCODING
              the encoding to read/write files in (default: utf8)

       -t MILLISECONDS, --ms MILLISECONDS
              how  many milliseconds distance a subtitle start time must be within of another to be considered a
              duplicate (default: 5000ms)

   examples:
              Remove duplicated subtitles within 5 seconds of each other

              $ srt deduplicate -i duplicated.srt

              Remove duplicated subtitles within 500 milliseconds of each other

              $ srt deduplicate -t 500 -i duplicated.srt

              Remove duplicated subtitles regardless of temporal proximity

              $ srt deduplicate -t 0 -i duplicated.srt

srt-deduplicate 3.5.3                               June 2023                                 SRT-DEDUPLICATE(1)