MIght want a way for SubParser to report which subtitle type it found about subtitlesparser

[AlexPoint]

Indeed, that would be useful to make public which subtitle file type was detected in the parsing.
That should not be too difficult and I'll have a look at that development as soon as possible.

To make sure I understand correctly your usecase, some of your subtitle files have the wrong extension and you want to detect which ones as well as their "real" subtitle type, and update their extension?

[b-rad15]

Not op but I can confirm that often people submit subs as .srt when they are a different format either just due to laziness or not understanding the different formats or because the site they submit to only allows .srt files to be submitted. They all still work mostly because vlc will read files regardless of the extension. I also think youtube-dl does not always use the correct extension, but I may be wrong on that specifically.

[mshiels]

The bigger problem is feeding stuff to 'ffmpeg' and it was having problems based on extension of course. But yes I figured it has the smarts for auto-detection, so return the info, that way it can be used for all sorts of stuff possibly.