Merge SRT entries with duplicate timestamps?

[bizzybody]

Someone, somewhere in the subtitling community is using some really screwed up software that splits all multi-line entries so every line is its own entry. Even worse, when it splits them it duplicates the timestamp. Could be converting, poorly, from closed captions.

Some players will do weird things with those subtitles. PotPlayer inverts the order of them, displaying the earlier duplicate entry on the bottom then stacks the later ones above it.

Oddly, MKVToolnix GUI's multiplexer *does not* throw any errors on *duplicate* times, only on *overlapping* ones or ones where the end time is earlier than the start time.

Is there any SRT cleanup or fixer or editor software that can fix this?

Turn this

1
00:00:07,120 --> 00:00:08,030
- Previously,

2
00:00:07,210 --> 00:00:08,030
on "The Magicians"...

3
00:00:09,090 --> 00:00:12,030
- A huge reservoir of magic

4
00:00:09,090 --> 00:00:12,030
hidden underneath the castle?

5
00:00:12,050 --> 00:00:15,000
- Where does it lead?

6
00:00:12,050 --> 00:00:15,000
To Roderick's secret chamber?

7
00:00:15,000 --> 00:00:16,050
- The Binder had a theory.

8
00:00:16,070 --> 00:00:19,280
When a being of great power

9
00:00:16,070 --> 00:00:19,280
such as a God is killed,

Into this. Note that entry 7 is supposed to be one line, becomes the new entry 5

1
00:00:07,120 --> 00:00:08,030
- Previously,
on "The Magicians"...

3
00:00:09,090 --> 00:00:12,030
- A huge reservoir of magic
hidden underneath the castle?

4
00:00:12,050 --> 00:00:15,000
- Where does it lead?
To Roderick's secret chamber?

5
00:00:15,000 --> 00:00:16,050
- The Binder had a theory.

6
00:00:16,070 --> 00:00:19,280
When a being of great power
such as a God is killed,

[videobruger]

Subtitle Edit -> Tools -> Merge lines with same time code ..


[Attachment 48634 - Click to enlarge]