MIght want a way for SubParser to report which subtitle type it found

[mshiels]

I have a situation where I am using subliminal to download subtitles, and it seems to default to naming them .en.srt, but some are NOT SRT, so I used our code to read them and it worked great, but I can't tell it was not a Srt to start with, so have to read/rewrite them all instead of just rewriting the few 'wrong ones'.

[AlexPoint]

Indeed, that would be useful to make public which subtitle file type was detected in the parsing.
That should not be too difficult and I'll have a look at that development as soon as possible.

To make sure I understand correctly your usecase, some of your subtitle files have the wrong extension and you want to detect which ones as well as their "real" subtitle type, and update their extension?

[b-rad15]

Not op but I can confirm that often people submit subs as .srt when they are a different format either just due to laziness or not understanding the different formats or because the site they submit to only allows .srt files to be submitted. They all still work mostly because vlc will read files regardless of the extension. I also think youtube-dl does not always use the correct extension, but I may be wrong on that specifically.

[mshiels]

The bigger problem is feeding stuff to 'ffmpeg' and it was having problems based on extension of course. But yes I figured it has the smarts for auto-detection, so return the info, that way it can be used for all sorts of stuff possibly.