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s8n fba9a5bfeb processes/subtitles: STOPGAP-SUBS.md tracker for v3.5 → v4 cross-ref 
Owner accepted Sassy the Sasquatch S01 v3.5 YouTube-auto-CC subs as
'85 % acceptable, fine, not great' but flagged them for v4 WhisperX
rebuild. Adds a single worklist file (STOPGAP-SUBS.md) so every show
that ships via the v3.5 path gets logged for the eventual v4 sweep
instead of being silently forgotten.

Sassy run log gets a STOP-GAP banner at the top pointing to the new
worklist. README.md gets a stop-gap-exception note alongside the
STYLE.md hard-prereq paragraph. ROADMAP H5 now points at the worklist
file as the canonical source of which shows v4 needs to regenerate.
2026-05-10 01:18:27 +01:00

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Subtitle run — Sassy the Sasquatch (2022)

⚠ STOP-GAP — needs v4 WhisperX cross-ref. Owner accepted current subs as "85 %, acceptable" but tracked for full rebuild when v4 lands (ROADMAP H5). See STOPGAP-SUBS.md.

Recipe version: v3.5 — YouTube auto-CC via yt-dlp + cleaner (v4 WhisperX planned, see ROADMAP) Run date: 2026-05-10 Operator: Claude Code @ onyx session, ai-lab cwd

Source

Field Value
Episodes 5 (S01 only)
Container mkv
Video AV1 Main, 1920×1080, 29.97 fps
Audio eng Opus stereo (default)
Embedded subs none (only font / cover-art attachments)
Existing sidecars none
Runtime ~11:20 per episode
Distribution YouTube (THE BIG LEZ SHOW OFFICIAL channel, creator: Jarrad Wright)

Niche-show indie animation. Same channel hosts Donny & Clarence Show, Mike Nolan Show, Big Lez Saga — all four shows in our library are Jarrad Wright productions distributed YouTube-first.

Series + library context

  • Series Id: b2d1afd8a4a30c59adb42ccaf47376c2
  • Library: 767bffe4f11c93ef34b805451a696a4e (TV Shows, /media/tv)
  • IMDB series: tt21209936
  • TVDB series: 421839
  • Per-episode IMDB ids: only S01E01 (tt21215354) — rest blank in TVDB

Coverage probe — paid + free providers

Three parallel research agents (2026-05-10) checked every realistic source before falling back to YouTube:

Provider Hits
OpenSubtitles.com REST (parent_imdb_id=21209936) 1 — SASSY THE SASQUATCH.Web-DL.1080p.en S01E01, HI-flagged
OpenSubtitles.org legacy XML-RPC 0 (account login 401 anyway)
Addic7ed 0
SubDL 0 (subtitles_count: 0)
SubSource (Subscene successor) 0
Podnapisi 0
OS VIP upgrade would not unlock anything — VIP is download-cap relief, not coverage. Same catalog as free.

Conclusion: nothing exists outside YouTube. Buying VIP would not help; the honest path is auto-generated subs.

Outcome

Season Eps Subs fetched Quality Notes
S01 5 5 / 5 YT auto-CC stop-gap (lowercase, no punctuation, names mangled) Cleaned via lib/yt-clean.py. v4 WhisperX rebuild planned

Net: 5 / 5 (100 %) — but at the lowest tier of the USER-G quality bar.

Pipeline used

  1. yt-dlp --skip-download --write-auto-subs --sub-langs en-orig against the official Sassy playlist (PLGMC7oz7XpmDMGrALMQiNXCi9p7aqkWbj) → raw VTT per episode in /tmp/sassy-research/.
  2. lib/yt-clean.py collapses the rolling-window VTT (each cue carries 2-3 stale lines plus the freshly-spoken bottom line) into deduplicated SRT.
  3. SSH cat redirect each cleaned .srt to nullstone at /home/user/media/tv/Sassy the Sasquatch (2022)/Season 01/<base>.eng.srt with library filename.
  4. Validation-only library refresh; verified all 5 eps show exactly 1 external eng sub stream.

Reusable pipeline now lives at lib/sub-yt-fetch.sh (wrapper) + lib/yt-clean.py (cleaner). Same one-liner handles Donny & Clarence, Mike Nolan, Big Lez Saga (all on the same channel).

Quality known issues

  • Lowercase, no punctuation — YT ASR output verbatim
  • Proper-noun mishears: "Sassy" → sasha, "Big Lez" → Big Less
  • Profanity censored as [ __ ] — passthrough from YT
  • Sentence segmentation absent — cues split on word boundaries

These violate STYLE.md "best quality" and "clean" rules. Documented as explicit stop-gap; v4 WhisperX rebuild restores quality bar.

Mike Nolan special-case (deferred)

A YouTube upload titled "MIKE NOLAN SHOW | COMPLETE SEASON | SUBTITLES" posted Oct 2025 carries hand-typed CC tracks. When subbing Mike Nolan, prefer that single video (rip CC tracks) over the per-episode auto-CC playlist path. Note added to v4 roadmap.

Followups

  • visually verify one Sassy episode plays in sync (recipe §6) — YT auto-cap timing is usually tight but worth a sanity check
  • when v4 WhisperX lands, regenerate Sassy + Donny & Clarence + Big Lez Saga + Mike Nolan in one batch on the 4080 friend node
  • for Mike Nolan, try the "COMPLETE SEASON | SUBTITLES" YT upload before falling back to Whisper