• Optional artifacts: cleaned SRT or VTT file, checksum (SHA-256), and a short audit log.

    • Open subs.srt in a text editor. Find entries between 00:00:00 and 00:06:00.

    Example entry:

    00:04:23,500 --> 00:04:25,000
Hello world

    The string may have originally been:

    When a file system partially restores or a download manager truncates metadata, you get such garbled outputs.