pycaption 1.0.5

Closed caption converter

pycaption is a caption reading/writing module. Use one of the given Readers to read content into a CaptionSet object, and then use one of the Writers to output the CaptionSet into captions of your desired format.

Tested with Python 3.4 and 3.5. (for Python 2 use pycaption < 1.0.0)

For details, see the documentation.

Changelog

1.0.5

• Added language parameter to WebVTTWriter
• Fix for TranscriptWriter merging words at caption boundary
• Updated documentation with positioning information
• Updated DFXP reader to fallback to the document’s language if no language is present on individual <div>
• Introduced PYCAPTION_DEFAULT_LANG environment variable and set it to default to ‘und’
• Fixed DFXPReader timestamp validation to accept frames and frames conversion to microseconds

1.0.4

• Included tests in PyPI tarball
• Ignore WebVTT empty cues instead of raising an exception
• Updated BeautifulSoup version to >=4.8.1,<4.9 and fixed failing tests
• Handled index error when sending bad timestamp for DFXP format

1.0.3

• Fixed issue with SCC reader including both special characters and their potential substitute
• Modified enum34 dependency to versions under Python 3.4
• Removed Python 3.4 and added 3.6, 3.7 and 3.8 to Travis tests

1.0.2

• Fixed typos in SCC positioning codes
• Added missing SCC positioning codes to positioning map

1.0.0

• Added Python 3 support

0.5.x

• Added positioning support
• Created documentation

License

This module is Copyright 2012 PBS.org and is available under the Apache License, Version 2.0.