Support for external webVTT subtitle format

[chrisc2r]

Hello,
Would it be possible to add support for the external webVTT subtitle format? It seems to be an extension of the SRT format, with enhanced functionality, such as the use of colour and other tagged attributes:

https://www.w3.org/TR/webvtt1/

Downloaded VTT files display if they are renamed as .srt, but lose all their additional formatting, so it seems that it may not be a massive leap to provide improved support.

Thanks for the consideration,
Chris

[chrisc2r]

If anyone else comes across this thread, you can batch convert webvtt using ffmpeg under linux as follows

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for i in *.vtt; do ffmpeg -i "$i" "${i%.*}.srt"; done