Renames 314 defs and 41 module/class-level constants. Keeps 11 names underscored where the stripped form collides in scope, plus 5.5.0 shims for the three symbols external service repos call.
Merge cues at the string level instead of round-tripping through
pycaption, which dropped inline tags and cue settings. STYLE and
REGION blocks are kept, duplicate boundary cues splice correctly,
and a bad timing line now skips the cue instead of crashing.
Also rank pysubs2 above SubtitleEdit for ASS to TTML/VTT since
SubtitleEdit flattens inline styling there. Documented the measured
backend fidelity table and added regression tests for the merge.
Replace the hardcoded conversion if/elif in Subtitle.convert with a capability-matrix backend registry (subtitle_convert.py): each backend declares the source->target pairs it supports plus a rank, and run_conversion tries them in order as a real fallback chain. conversion_method pins a backend but still falls back (pin-then-fallback).
- Detect the cross-platform SubtitleEdit 5+ CLI (seconv) and use its --flag syntax for convert, SDH stripping, and reverse-RTL
- Protect styled ASS/SSA from automatic SRT downconversion; honor an explicit --sub-format / sidecar_format
- Read segmented fVTT (wvtt) and fTTML (stpp) directly from fragmented MP4
- Improve ASS/SSA font detection: inline \fn overrides, Format-located Fontname column, @-prefix strip, case-insensitive de-dup; covers SSA too
- Update SUBTITLE_CONFIG.md, example yaml, README; add regression tests and a backend benchmark script
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