Video Subtitle Translator

Video Subtitle Translator

When to Use

Use this skill when the user asks to create subtitles for a local audio or video file, translate subtitles, produce .srt or .vtt sidecar files, embed soft subtitles into a video, or burn translated subtitles into video frames.

The ASR path is OOMOL built-in Fusion API Qwen ASR file transcription. Do not ask the user for an ASR provider key and do not rediscover the ASR capability at runtime. The LLM translation path uses the model configuration from oo llm config --json; do not ask the user for an OpenAI key unless oo llm config fails or returns unusable values.

Inputs

• Required: a local audio or video path, or a publicly reachable audio URL.

• Translation intent: most video-subtitle product requests are for translated subtitles because the viewer usually does not share the source language. Translate when the user explicitly asks for translated subtitles, a translated video, video translation, or "subtitles and translation".

• If the user asks to "add subtitles", "make subtitles", "subtitle this video", or otherwise requests video subtitles without clearly saying whether they want translation, pause before execution and ask them to choose a target language for translation or explicitly confirm same-language/no-translation subtitles.

• If the request is only to transcribe, generate captions, or add same-language subtitles, and that same-language/no-translation intent is explicit, do not translate.

• Default translation target: when translation is clearly requested and the user does not name a target language, infer the target from the natural language of the user's request. The language they used to ask is usually their preferred subtitle language. For example, a Chinese request defaults to Simplified Chinese (zh), a Japanese request defaults to Japanese (ja), a Spanish request defaults to Spanish (es), and an English request defaults to English (en). For Chinese, use Simplified Chinese unless the user writes in Traditional Chinese or explicitly asks for Traditional Chinese, Cantonese, or another variant.

• Ask when unclear: if the wording makes it unclear whether translation is wanted, ask the user which language to translate subtitles into, or ask them to confirm they want same-language/no-translation subtitles. If translation is clearly wanted but the user's preferred target language cannot be inferred from the request, ask which target language to use.

• Defaults: source language omitted for unknown or multilingual audio; enableWords: true; enableITN: false; SRT output; burned-in MP4 for translated videos; sidecar-only output for audio.

• Default video delivery mode: burned-in MP4. Most users want a single MP4 file whose subtitles are visible everywhere, especially on social platforms, mobile players, and upload workflows that ignore subtitle tracks.

• Secondary video delivery mode: soft-subtitle MKV. Use MKV when the user asks for editable/selectable subtitles, no re-encoding, subtitle tracks, multiple languages, MKV specifically, soft subtitles, or when burn-in encoding is not available or unsuitable.

• Optional: source language code, output directory, VTT output, soft subtitle mode (soft-mkv or soft-mp4), burn-in mode, subtitle language code, and whether to keep both original and translated subtitle tracks.

• Optional translation style inputs: translation_profile, domain, audience, style_notes, glossary, and video_context.

  • translation_profile defaults to general.
  • Supported profiles: general, film_tv, youtube_explainer, technical_course, interview_podcast, news_documentary, business_training, gaming_stream, and kids_content.
  • Infer translation_profile from the user's wording when obvious. Use film_tv for films, TV dramas, sitcoms, streaming shows, and scripted dialogue. Use youtube_explainer for YouTube-style explainers, reviews, tutorials, and creator videos. Use technical_course for courses, API walkthroughs, coding videos, academic talks, or other terminology-heavy material. Use interview_podcast for interviews, podcasts, panel conversations, or unscripted long-form speech. Use news_documentary for news, documentary, or factual narration. Use business_training for corporate, sales, compliance, or onboarding material. Use gaming_stream for game streams and esports content. Use kids_content for children's videos. If the scene is unclear, keep general instead of asking.
  • domain should briefly describe the topic when known, such as AI developer tools, medical lecture, or sitcom dialogue.
  • audience should describe the expected viewer when known, such as general viewers, software developers, or adult streaming viewers.
  • style_notes should preserve the user's requested style, for example natural Netflix-style Chinese subtitles or accurate but not too formal.
  • glossary is an optional list of source-to-target term mappings for names, products, acronyms, technical terms, and recurring phrases.
  • video_context is optional high-level context such as title, description, speaker notes, episode setting, or project-specific terminology.

• Supported Fusion API source language codes are zh, yue, en, ja, de, ko, ru, fr, pt, ar, it, es, hi, id, th, tr, uk, vi, cs, da, fil, fi, is, ms, no, pl, and sv. Omit language instead of guessing when the user says auto, unknown, or multilingual.

Execution

This skill ships a bundled helper script at scripts/subtitle-tools.mjs. Resolve it relative to this SKILL.md directory and prefer it for local transcript-to-subtitle conversion and LLM subtitle translation. Do not recreate the conversion or translation code inline when the script is available.

Required oo CLI Gate

The OOMOL oo CLI is mandatory for this skill. Verify it before starting media processing:

oo --version

If the shell reports that oo is missing, or if a later oo command fails because authentication or configuration is unavailable, read references/oo-cli-setup.md completely and follow it. Load that reference only for setup or recovery; do not load it when oo is already available and working. Do not silently replace Fusion API ASR or OO-hosted translation with another provider. If the user declines the required installation or sign-in, stop and explain that this skill cannot run.

1. Check FFmpeg First

Run:

ffmpeg -version
ffprobe -version

If either command is missing, stop and guide the user to install FFmpeg before processing video or extracting audio. Suggested installs:

• macOS with Homebrew: brew install ffmpeg
• Windows/Linux: download the matching prebuilt FFmpeg archive from https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-ffmpeg/releases, extract it, and add the directory containing ffmpeg and ffprobe to PATH.

Do not recommend sudo apt install ffmpeg for Linux by default. It is more invasive than needed for this workflow and may install an older or differently configured distro build.

After installation, ask the user to open a new terminal or refresh PATH, then rerun the version checks. Do not continue with video work when FFmpeg is missing. For a publicly reachable audio URL and sidecar-only subtitle output, FFmpeg is not needed unless conversion, muxing, or burning is requested.

2. Check Node.js First

The bundled helper script requires a local JavaScript runtime. Use Node.js 18 or newer because the script is an ES module and uses the built-in fetch API.

Run:

node --version
node -e "const major=Number(process.versions.node.split('.')[0]); process.exit(major >= 18 ? 0 : 1)"

If node is missing or the version check fails, stop and guide the user to install Node.js 18 LTS or newer before running scripts/subtitle-tools.mjs. Suggested installs:

• macOS with Homebrew: brew install node
• Windows with winget: winget install OpenJS.NodeJS.LTS
• Ubuntu/Debian: install Node.js 18+ with NodeSource or nvm; distro apt install nodejs npm is acceptable only when it provides Node.js 18+

After installation, ask the user to open a new terminal or refresh PATH, then rerun the version checks. Do not continue with local subtitle conversion or LLM translation when the JavaScript runtime is missing or older than Node.js 18.

3. Prepare Audio

Create a stable work directory such as outputs/subtitles-<input-name>/. Reuse the same directory on reruns when the user is retrying the same input. Do not reuse translation checkpoint entries unless --resume is explicitly passed; the helper only resumes entries whose saved source text still matches the current subtitle cue.

For local video or any media that needs normalization, extract mono 16 kHz WAV:

ffmpeg -y -i "$INPUT_MEDIA" -vn -ac 1 -ar 16000 -c:a pcm_s16le "$WORK_DIR/audio.wav"

For a local audio file that Fusion API can read directly, uploading the original file is acceptable. If the upload or ASR rejects the format, convert it with the same FFmpeg command and upload audio.wav.

Upload the audio that will be transcribed:

oo file upload "$AUDIO_PATH" --json

Use the returned downloadUrl as fileURL. Do not pass local filesystem paths to Fusion API connector actions.

4. Submit Fusion API ASR

Use this exact connector action:

oo connector run "fusion-api" \
  --action "qwen_asr_filetrans_submit" \
  --data @submit-asr.json \
  --json

Payload skeleton:

{
  "fileURL": "https://...",
  "language": "en",
  "enableITN": false,
  "enableWords": true
}

Rules:

• fileURL is required and must be the uploaded audio downloadUrl or a public audio URL.
• Omit language when unknown or multilingual; otherwise use one supported code from the input list above.
• Set enableWords: true so the result can be converted into timed subtitles.
• Omit channelID unless the user specifically asks for one or more channels.
• The submit response returns sessionId. Save it in job.created.json.

5. Poll and Fetch Result

Poll state with:

oo connector run "fusion-api" \
  --action "qwen_asr_filetrans_state" \
  --data "{\"sessionID\":\"$SESSION_ID\"}" \
  --json

Expected states:

• {"state":"processing","progress":...}: wait and poll again.
• {"state":"completed"}: fetch the result.
• {"state":"not_found","error":"..."}: stop and report the missing session.

Fetch result with:

oo connector run "fusion-api" \
  --action "qwen_asr_filetrans_result" \
  --data "{\"sessionID\":\"$SESSION_ID\"}" \
  --json

The completed result has state: "completed" and useful transcript data at data. Save the full response as job.done.json and data as transcript.json. Schema indicates data includes taskID, transcriptionURL, usage, and transcription details. This field shape was schema-confirmed; exact nested transcript content can vary by media.

6. Build Source Subtitles

Use the bundled script to convert the saved Fusion API result or transcript.json into timed subtitle files:

node "$SKILL_DIR/scripts/subtitle-tools.mjs" fusion-to-subtitles \
  --input "$WORK_DIR/transcript.json" \
  --out-dir "$WORK_DIR" \
  --time-unit ms \
  --formats srt

Pass --formats all when VTT was requested. The script contains the Sublinea-style timed-word cue segmentation defaults and writes transcript.txt, transcript.srt, transcript.word-timed.srt, and optionally transcript.word-timed.vtt.

Convert Fusion API transcript data into an internal timed-word list:

• Iterate data.transcription.transcripts[].
• Use transcript.text for plain text when present.
• For each transcript.sentences[], use sentence beginTime, endTime, text, language, and words[].
• For each word, use beginTime, endTime, text, and optional punctuation.
• Preserve punctuation by appending it to the preceding word when present.

Apply conservative noise cleanup only while reading Fusion ASR output:

• Drop a word or sentence token only when its complete text is three or more zeroes, such as 000; never apply this rule to user-provided SRT or LLM translations.
• Do not append punctuation when the word text already ends with the same punctuation.
• Preserve normal expressive forms such as ..., ??, !!, and ?!.
• Normalize only clearly excessive runs: four or more periods to ..., three or more identical question or exclamation marks to two, long mixed question/exclamation runs to their first meaningful pair, and repeated commas, semicolons, colons, or enumeration commas to one.
• Report the number of probable zero artifacts removed and punctuation runs repaired. Keep user subtitles and translated subtitles content-preserving.

Normalize timestamps to seconds. Fusion API timestamps use milliseconds, so the helper defaults to --time-unit ms and divides them by 1000. For a non-Fusion transcript whose timestamps are already seconds, pass --time-unit s explicitly. Do not infer the unit from timestamp magnitude. Keep a copy of the raw transcript.json.

Segment timed words into subtitle cues with these defaults, adapted from the Sublinea project:

• maximum cue duration: 4.2 seconds
• target cue duration: 2.8 seconds
• maximum cue characters: 54
• maximum words per cue: 12
• split at pauses of at least 0.55 seconds
• cue start padding: 0.08 seconds
• cue end padding: 0.16 seconds
• minimum gap between cues: 0.05 seconds

Write:

• transcript.txt
• transcript.srt
• transcript.word-timed.srt
• transcript.word-timed.vtt, when VTT was requested

Use SRT as the stable exchange format for translation and soft subtitle muxing. For burned-in subtitles, convert the final SRT to ASS first so font size, outline, alignment, and bottom margin are interpreted in an explicit script resolution instead of relying on FFmpeg's SRT-to-ASS defaults.

7. Translate Subtitles With OO LLM Config

When translation is requested, use the target language named by the user. If the user clearly requested translation but omitted the target language, infer the target from the natural language of the user's request. Then run:

oo llm config --json

Use the returned apiKey, baseUrl, and model for an OpenAI-compatible chat completions request to ${baseUrl without trailing slash}/chat/completions. Do not hardcode, persist, log, or print the API key.

Then use the bundled script to translate SRT cue text while preserving cue indexes and timing. Example for a Chinese-language request:

node "$SKILL_DIR/scripts/subtitle-tools.mjs" translate-srt \
  --input "$WORK_DIR/transcript.srt" \
  --out-dir "$WORK_DIR" \
  --source-language auto \
  --target-language "Simplified Chinese" \
  --target-code zh \
  --profile youtube_explainer \
  --formats srt

Adjust --target-language, --target-code, --source-language, --profile, --domain, --audience, --style-notes, --glossary-json, and --video-context-json from the user's request and the inferred target language. For example, use --target-language "Simplified Chinese" --target-code zh for a Chinese-language request, --target-language "Japanese" --target-code ja for a Japanese-language request, and --target-language "Spanish" --target-code es for a Spanish-language request. If the request language is mixed, ambiguous, or not a stable signal of the user's preferred subtitle language, ask for the target language before translating. Pass --formats all when VTT was requested. The script calls oo llm config --json, sends OpenAI-compatible chat completions requests, writes translation.<target-code>.json as a resumable checkpoint after each batch, retries failed batches at smaller sizes, and writes translation.<target-code>.srt plus optional VTT.

On a retry, pass --resume to reuse completed checkpoint entries. Without --resume, translate from the beginning and overwrite the checkpoint. When resuming, the helper reuses an entry only when both its cue index and saved source text match the current SRT; old checkpoints without saved source text are ignored.

Translate only subtitle cue text. Preserve cue indexes and all timing fields. Use batches of about 30 cues with a small context window before and after the batch. Include any available translation style inputs in the user payload: translation_profile, domain, audience, style_notes, glossary, and video_context. Keep the prompt stable across profiles; let the profile and metadata drive style adaptation. Require the model to return JSON:

{
  "items": [
    { "index": 1, "text": "translated subtitle text" }
  ]
}

Recommended request body:

{
  "model": "<oo llm model>",
  "temperature": 0.2,
  "messages": [
    {
      "role": "system",
      "content": "You are a professional subtitle translator.\n\nReturn only valid JSON with this exact shape: {\"items\":[{\"index\":1,\"text\":\"translated subtitle text\"}]}.\n\nHard requirements:\n- Translate only subtitle cue text.\n- Preserve every requested cue index exactly.\n- Do not add, remove, merge, split, or reorder subtitle cues.\n- Preserve meaning, speaker intent, tone, names, numbers, dates, brands, code terms, and important repeated phrases.\n- Keep each subtitle concise, natural, and readable on screen.\n- Use context_before and context_after only to resolve meaning, references, pronouns, tone, and continuity.\n- Follow glossary entries when provided. Keep source terms unchanged when the glossary says so or when a product, API, command, code symbol, or proper noun should remain in the source language.\n- Do not add explanations, notes, markdown, or extra JSON fields.\n\nStyle adaptation:\n- If translation_profile is \"film_tv\", translate into natural spoken dialogue. Preserve character emotion, humor, subtext, register, and relationship dynamics. Avoid stiff literal phrasing. Adapt slang, insults, jokes, and profanity to an equivalent natural intensity in the target language.\n- If translation_profile is \"youtube_explainer\", translate clearly and naturally for online video viewers. Keep domain terminology accurate while avoiding overly academic wording. Preserve tool names, product names, acronyms, and technical concepts unless a standard target-language translation exists.\n- If translation_profile is \"technical_course\", prioritize precision, terminology consistency, and instructional clarity. Use standard technical terms. Avoid embellishment or casual paraphrase that may reduce accuracy.\n- If translation_profile is \"interview_podcast\", preserve the speaker's tone and conversational rhythm. Lightly clean filler words only when they hurt subtitle readability, without changing the speaker's position.\n- If translation_profile is \"news_documentary\", use a neutral, accurate, polished style. Avoid slang unless it is essential to the source.\n- If translation_profile is \"business_training\", use concise professional language with consistent business terminology.\n- If translation_profile is \"gaming_stream\", use energetic, natural spoken language. Preserve game-specific terms, memes, reactions, and player intent.\n- If translation_profile is \"kids_content\", use simple, friendly, age-appropriate wording.\n- Otherwise use a natural general subtitle style."
    },
    {
      "role": "user",
      "content": "{\"source_language\":\"auto\",\"target_language\":\"Simplified Chinese\",\"translation_profile\":\"youtube_explainer\",\"domain\":\"AI developer tools\",\"audience\":\"general technical viewers\",\"style_notes\":\"Natural, accurate subtitles; keep product names and standard technical terms consistent.\",\"video_context\":{\"title\":\"Building an AI agent with tool calling\",\"description\":\"A YouTube tutorial for developers\",\"speaker_notes\":\"One speaker explaining a workflow casually.\"},\"glossary\":[{\"source\":\"agent\",\"target\":\"智能体\"},{\"source\":\"tool calling\",\"target\":\"工具调用\"}],\"context_before\":[],\"subtitles\":[{\"index\":1,\"text\":\"Today we're going to build a simple agent with tool calling.\"}],\"context_after\":[]}"
    }
  ]
}

For film, TV, and other scripted dialogue, prefer a payload like:

{
  "source_language": "auto",
  "target_language": "Simplified Chinese",
  "translation_profile": "film_tv",
  "domain": "scripted dialogue",
  "audience": "adult streaming viewers",
  "style_notes": "Natural spoken Chinese subtitles; avoid translationese.",
  "video_context": {
    "title": "Episode or scene title when known",
    "description": "Brief setting, relationship, or plot context when known"
  },
  "glossary": [],
  "context_before": [
    { "index": 28, "text": "What the hell are you doing here?" }
  ],
  "subtitles": [
    { "index": 29, "text": "I told you, I had nowhere else to go." }
  ],
  "context_after": [
    { "index": 30, "text": "You shouldn't have come back." }
  ]
}

Validate that every requested cue index has a non-empty translated text. On partial or invalid JSON, retry with a smaller batch; for a single-cue failure, report the model error. Write:

• translation.<target-code>.json as a resumable checkpoint
• translation.<target-code>.srt
• translation.<target-code>.vtt, when VTT was requested

8. Prepare Display Subtitles

Before creating external subtitles, soft subtitles, or burned-in subtitles, normalize the final translated SRT into a display SRT. This keeps all delivery forms consistent: sidecar SRT, styled ASS, soft MKV ASS, and burned-in MP4 should use the same cue text and line breaks.

For Simplified Chinese and other CJK subtitles, do not use the English-style 37 characters per line as the visual line length. Use a CJK-aware line limit:

• default CJK line length: 18 characters per line
• strict Simplified Chinese delivery: 16 characters per line
• maximum lines per cue: 2
• prefer one-line subtitles when the cue fits
• when two lines are needed, prefer a bottom-heavy shape and avoid leaving only one or two characters on the top line
• split overlong cues into multiple sequential cues before generating ASS, rather than forcing a second line beyond the line limit

Run:

node "$SKILL_DIR/scripts/subtitle-tools.mjs" prepare-display-srt \
  --input "$WORK_DIR/translation.$TARGET_CODE.srt" \
  --output "$WORK_DIR/translation.$TARGET_CODE.display.srt" \
  --cjk-line-length 18 \
  --max-lines 2

Use --cjk-line-length 16 when the user asks for stricter professional or Netflix-style Simplified Chinese line limits. Use the display SRT as $SUBTITLE_SRT for the rest of the workflow.

9. Add Subtitles to Video

For audio-only inputs, deliver sidecar subtitle files. For video inputs, choose the user's requested mode or default to burned-in MP4.

Default mode rules:

• If the user does not specify an output mode, create a burned-in MP4.
• If the user asks for "subtitled video", "video with subtitles", "translated subtitles on this video", "add subtitles to this video", or similar generic wording, create a burned-in MP4 unless the user asks for soft/selectable subtitle tracks.
• If the user asks for styled subtitles, visual parity, social sharing, upload compatibility, or subtitles that always display, prefer burned-in MP4.
• If the user asks for "烧录", "硬字幕", "hard subtitles", "burned-in", "permanent subtitles", "export MP4", or "MP4 with subtitles", create a burned-in MP4.
• If the user asks for "soft subtitles", "外挂字幕", "可开关字幕", "subtitle track", "selectable subtitles", "no re-encode", "MKV", or multiple subtitle languages in one file, create a soft MKV.
• When the user wants sidecar subtitles and burned-in subtitles from the same job, generate both from the display SRT so cue boundaries and line breaks match.

Sidecar files:

• Return translation.<target-code>.display.srt as the compatibility-first external subtitle file.
• Also return translation.<target-code>.display.ass when styled external subtitles are useful or when the user wants visual parity with burned-in output.

Create the styled ASS sidecar from the display SRT:

node "$SKILL_DIR/scripts/subtitle-tools.mjs" srt-to-burn-ass \
  --input "$SUBTITLE_SRT" \
  --output "$WORK_DIR/translation.$TARGET_CODE.display.ass" \
  --video-width "$VIDEO_WIDTH" \
  --video-height "$VIDEO_HEIGHT" \
  --font-name "PingFang SC" \
  --font-size 56 \
  --margin-v 38 \
  --margin-l 80 \
  --margin-r 80 \
  --outline 5

Soft MKV, compatibility-first:

ffmpeg -y -i "$INPUT_VIDEO" -i "$SUBTITLE_SRT" \
  -map 0:v? -map 0:a? -map 1:0 \
  -c copy -c:s srt \
  -disposition:s:0 default \
  -metadata:s:s:0 language="$LANG_CODE" \
  -metadata:s:s:0 title="Translated subtitles" \
  "$OUTPUT_VIDEO.mkv"

Soft MKV, style-consistent with burn-in:

ffmpeg -y -i "$INPUT_VIDEO" -i "$SUBTITLE_ASS" \
  -map 0:v? -map 0:a? -map 1:0 \
  -c copy -c:s ass \
  -disposition:s:0 default \
  -metadata:s:s:0 language="$LANG_CODE" \
  -metadata:s:s:0 title="Styled translated subtitles" \
  "$OUTPUT_VIDEO.styled.mkv"

Soft MP4:

ffmpeg -y -i "$INPUT_VIDEO" -i "$SUBTITLE_SRT" \
  -map 0:v? -map 0:a? -map 1:0 \
  -c copy -c:s mov_text \
  -disposition:s:0 default \
  -metadata:s:s:0 language="$LANG_CODE" \
  -metadata:s:s:0 title="Translated subtitles" \
  "$OUTPUT_VIDEO.mp4"

Burned-in MP4:

Before burning, convert the display SRT to ASS with explicit video resolution and bottom-centered styling:

node "$SKILL_DIR/scripts/subtitle-tools.mjs" srt-to-burn-ass \
  --input "$SUBTITLE_SRT" \
  --output "$WORK_DIR/subtitles.burn.ass" \
  --video-width "$VIDEO_WIDTH" \
  --video-height "$VIDEO_HEIGHT" \
  --font-name "PingFang SC" \
  --font-size 56 \
  --margin-v 38 \
  --margin-l 80 \
  --margin-r 80 \
  --outline 5

Use ffprobe to set VIDEO_WIDTH and VIDEO_HEIGHT from the actual input video. For 1920x1080 videos, the default burn-in style is bottom-centered Chinese subtitles with PlayResX: 1920, PlayResY: 1080, Alignment=2, and MarginV=38. Keep this as the fixed default unless the user explicitly asks for a different position. Do not reposition subtitles by checking individual screenshots frame by frame.

Then burn the ASS file:

ffmpeg -y -i "$INPUT_VIDEO" \
  -vf "ass=$WORK_DIR/subtitles.burn.ass" \
  -c:v libx264 -crf 18 -preset medium -c:a copy -sn \
  "$OUTPUT_VIDEO.burned.mp4"

Use burned-in MP4 as the normal video delivery default. Prefer soft subtitles only when the user values editability, selectable tracks, multiple languages, smaller processing cost, or avoiding video re-encoding over universal playback.

Soft MP4 subtitles (mov_text) cannot preserve the same typography, outline, or exact positioning as ASS/burn-in. Treat soft MP4 as a niche compatibility mode, not the default. If visual consistency matters, prefer burned-in MP4; use ASS sidecar or soft MKV with ASS only when the user asks for editable or selectable subtitles.

Burn-in positioning rules:

• Prefer ASS over direct subtitles=$SUBTITLE_SRT for burned-in output.
• Always include PlayResX and PlayResY matching the input video. ASS margins, font size, and coordinates are script-resolution pixels; mismatched or implicit resolution can make MarginV appear much higher than intended.
• For normal horizontal subtitles, use bottom center (Alignment=2) and a fixed bottom margin. On 1080p output, use MarginV=38; for other heights, default to about 3.5% of video height, with a floor near 28 pixels.
• Treat the whole video as one canvas by default. Only avoid lower-third graphics or on-screen text when the user specifically requests manual per-scene placement.
• If the user says the subtitles are too high or too low, adjust the ASS MarginV only. Smaller MarginV moves subtitles closer to the bottom; larger MarginV moves them upward.
• Use white text with a black outline by default for readability. For Chinese on 1080p, Fontsize=56, Outline=5, Shadow=0, MarginL=80, and MarginR=80 are the fixed defaults unless the user asks otherwise.

Result Handling

Report the generated files with clear local paths. At minimum, return the source SRT path and, when requested, the translated SRT path. For video inputs, also return the subtitled video path when soft muxing or burning was requested.

If a generated video or subtitle file is practical to preview in the current environment, open or display it for the user; otherwise provide the exact path. Do not print raw transcript JSON unless the user asks for debugging details. Do not print the OO LLM API key.

Typical output names:

• job.created.json
• job.done.json
• transcript.json
• transcript.txt
• transcript.srt
• transcript.word-timed.srt
• translation.<target-code>.json
• translation.<target-code>.srt
• translation.<target-code>.display.srt
• translation.<target-code>.display.ass
• translation.<target-code>.burn.ass
• <name>.subtitled.mkv
• <name>.styled.mkv
• <name>.subtitled.mp4
• <name>.burned.mp4

Failure Handling

• Missing oo CLI or unavailable OO authentication/configuration: read references/oo-cli-setup.md and follow its matching recovery path. Do not treat oo: command not found as an ordinary upload failure.
• Missing FFmpeg or FFprobe: stop, give install instructions, and ask the user to rerun after installation.
• Missing input media: stop and ask for the path or URL.
• oo file upload fails: report the upload error; for local files, verify the path exists and retry with a normalized audio file when format rejection is likely.
• Fusion API submit schema rejection: check fileURL, language code, enableWords, and channelID; do not rediscover actions.
• ASR timeout: report the saved sessionId and explain that the agent can resume by polling qwen_asr_filetrans_state and qwen_asr_filetrans_result.
• ASR result has no word timestamps: write transcript.txt if text exists, but explain that timed subtitles require enableWords: true or a transcript with sentence/word timing.
• oo llm config --json fails: report that OO-hosted LLM configuration is not available and ask the user to fix oo CLI authentication/configuration.
• LLM translation returns invalid JSON or missing cue indexes: retry smaller batches, then fail with the specific cue indexes that could not be translated.
• Display SRT still has CJK lines over the requested limit: rerun prepare-display-srt with a smaller --cjk-line-length, usually 16, and regenerate ASS from the display SRT.
• FFmpeg soft MP4 subtitle muxing fails: use burned-in MP4 as the default fallback. If burn-in is unavailable or the user explicitly needs selectable subtitle tracks, retry soft MKV.
• Burn-in encoding fails because libx264 is unavailable: ask the user to install a full FFmpeg build with libx264 support or choose soft subtitles.
• Burned-in subtitles look too high: verify that the burn-in input is ASS, not raw SRT, and that the ASS file has PlayResX and PlayResY matching the video. If those are correct, reduce MarginV instead of moving subtitles with per-frame screenshot adjustments.