Cyrillic subtitles: .ass to .srt converter (linux, mac os x)

ass2srt.sh

#!/bin/sh

IFS=$'\n'; set -f

for file in $(find ./ -name '*.ass');
do
  filename=${file%.ass};
  dir=$(dirname "${file}")

  if [ -f "$filename".ass ] && [ ! -f "$filename".srt ];
  then
    asstosrt -n -s utf-8 -o "$dir" "$file" > /dev/null;

    if [ -f "$filename".srt ];
    then
      iconv -c -f UTF-8 -t CP1251 "$filename".srt > "$filename".srt.new;
      rm "$filename".srt;
      mv "$filename".srt.new "$filename".srt;

      echo Converted: "$filename".srt;
    fi;
  fi;
done;

unset IFS; set +f

.ass to .srt converter for cyrillic subtitles (for linux and mac os x)

Preparing:

0. install python with pip (if you don't have it yet)
1. install asstosrt and charset packages:

pip install asstosrt charset

2. download the script ass2srt.sh to any directory
3. set permissions for the script:

chmod 755 /path/to/script/ass2srt.sh

Using

1. open directory with .ass files in Terminal: cd /path/to/directory/with/subtitles
2. run current script: /path/to/script/ass2srt.sh

All *.ass files in the directory and subdirectories will be converted.