YouTube – How to Attach Subtitles to Videos

Assuming you have Python installed, you can use getyoutubecc, which is a Python script.

Execution is as follows

>> python getyoutubecc Akqkvx407c8

Then keep the video and .srt in the same folder and you should be able to play in VLC.

For a non-technical way try one of the conversion sites such as http://mo.dbxdb.com/, which will download the .srt within a zip.

Select the track from the zip file

And then you should see the subtitles appear

For videos with multiple tracks you will have to dig in and save it from .xml to .srt manually, there isn't a ready made tool out there on the web

http://video.google.com/timedtext?lang=<LANG>&v=<VIDEOID>

Where can be en for English, it for Italian and de for German.
<VIDEOID> is the id of your Youtube video.

For some videos, it appears necessary to specify the name of the subtitle track, as seen on the Youtube page of the video, as a third argument:

http://video.google.com/timedtext?lang=<LANG>&v=<VIDEOID>&name=<NAME>

Yes, you can.

If you are the video owner, you can make captions appear by default by adding this tag to your video: yt:cc=on. It won't stop people from turning them off by clicking the CC button, but it will default captions to 'on' for most users.

Embedded videos

• When you embed a video on another site, you can make it so that captions are always shown on the embedded video. To enable captions on a video you'd like to embed, just add &cc_load_policy=1 to the video's embed code.
• You can also choose a caption language for the embedded video. To specify the caption language for the video that you'd like to embed, just add &hl=fr&cc_lang_pref=fr&cc_load_policy=1 to the video's embed code. Here, hl sets the language for the player menu, cc_lang_pref sets the language for the captions shown in the video, and cc_load_policy=1 makes captions on by default. fr represents the ISO 639 language code for French. You can look up 2-letter language codes in the ISO 639-1 standard.

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