Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your SBV file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert SBV to another file type
To convert SBV captions to another format, you need YouTube Studio or other Text software.
Convert a file to SBV
To convert other file formats to the "Subtitle and Caption File" file type, you need software like YouTube Studio or a similar tool.
About SBV files
The .SBV file is a plain-text subtitle format primarily generated by YouTube. It contains sequential start and end timecodes alongside the corresponding text for closed captions. When you download auto-generated captions from YouTube Studio or transcripts from Google Meet, they frequently arrive in the .sbv format. Because it is a basic text file encoded in UTF-8, you can open and edit it using simple text editors like Notepad or Visual Studio Code. However, the .sbv format is heavily restricted outside of the Google ecosystem. Standard video players like VLC Media Player or professional Non-Linear Editors (NLEs) such as Adobe Premiere Pro and Final Cut Pro do not natively support .sbv files. This causes immediate import failures and missing captions if you try to use the raw downloaded file for offline editing or multi-platform distribution. To make your captions usable across the board, you must convert the file. For universal compatibility with almost all media players and social platforms, convert .sbv to SRT (SubRip Subtitle). If you are building web-based HTML5 video players, convert to VTT (Web Video Text Tracks), which supports advanced CSS styling. For reading or printing the transcript without timecodes, convert to a standard TXT file.
Convert.Guru analyzes your SBV file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert SBV file to SRT, VTT, TXT, PDF, MP4, TEXT, DOCX, INDD, QXP, PUB, PMD or PM6, you can use YouTube Studio or similar software from the "Video Subtitle and Captioning" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert MDI, PUB, PDP, PM4, P65, COMIC, WEBTEMPLATE, PMD, SPUB, INDD, PM5 or QXP files to SBV, try YouTube Studio or another comparable tool in the "Video Subtitle and Captioning" category.
The SBV Converter Story
The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our SBV converter.