"max_words_per_line" setting is not effective.

[HelloWorld668]

pip show openai-whisper
Name: openai-whisper
Version: 20231106
Summary: Robust Speech Recognition via Large-Scale Weak Supervision
Home-page: https://github.com/openai/whisper
Author: OpenAI
Author-email: 
License: MIT
Location: /usr/local/lib/python3.11/site-packages
Requires: more-itertools, numba, numpy, tiktoken, torch, tqdm
Required-by: 

whisper ~/1/a.mp4 --language en --fp16 False --word_timestamps True  --max_words_per_line 10 --output_dir ~/1 --output_format srt

[00:00.000 --> 00:01.620]  Welcome to the Ansible module.
[00:02.160 --> 00:05.660]  Till now, you have already gained massive knowledge and skills
[00:05.660 --> 00:08.500]  in different DevOps technologies and concepts.
[00:09.460 --> 00:13.080]  As a continuation of the projects in all the previous modules,
[00:13.460 --> 00:17.520]  we will use Ansible to further automate and optimize DevOps processes.
[00:18.140 --> 00:23.280]  So learning Ansible will take you another level up in your DevOps expertise
[00:23.280 --> 00:26.500]  and help you really stand out with your skills.
[00:26.500 --> 00:32.540]  Ansible Nexo Terraform is one of the most popular infrastructurist code
[00:32.540 --> 00:37.740]  and configuration management tools currently used in IT projects.
[00:38.660 --> 00:39.960]  And while you've already learned how to use it,
[00:39.960 --> 00:39.960]  you can also learn how to use it in the future.

whisper ~/1/a.mp4 --language en --fp16 False --word_timestamps True  --max_words_per_line 5 --output_dir ~/1 --output_format srt

[00:00.000 --> 00:01.620]  Welcome to the Ansible module.
[00:02.160 --> 00:05.660]  Till now, you have already gained massive knowledge and skills
[00:05.660 --> 00:08.500]  in different DevOps technologies and concepts.
[00:09.460 --> 00:13.080]  As a continuation of the projects in all the previous modules,
[00:13.460 --> 00:17.520]  we will use Ansible to further automate and optimize DevOps processes.
[00:18.140 --> 00:23.280]  So learning Ansible will take you another level up in your DevOps expertise
[00:23.280 --> 00:26.500]  and help you really stand out with your skills.
[00:26.500 --> 00:32.540]  Ansible Nexo Terraform is one of the most popular infrastructurist code
[00:32.540 --> 00:37.740]  and configuration management tools currently used in IT projects.
[00:38.660 --> 00:39.960]  And while you've already learned how to use it,
[00:39.960 --> 00:39.960]  you can also learn how to use it in the future.

whisper ~/1/a.mp4 --language en --fp16 False --word_timestamps True  --max_words_per_line 3 --output_dir ~/1 --output_format srt

[00:00.000 --> 00:01.620]  Welcome to the Ansible module.
[00:02.160 --> 00:05.660]  Till now, you have already gained massive knowledge and skills
[00:05.660 --> 00:08.500]  in different DevOps technologies and concepts.
[00:09.460 --> 00:13.080]  As a continuation of the projects in all the previous modules,
[00:13.460 --> 00:17.520]  we will use Ansible to further automate and optimize DevOps processes.
[00:18.140 --> 00:23.280]  So learning Ansible will take you another level up in your DevOps expertise
[00:23.280 --> 00:26.500]  and help you really stand out with your skills.
[00:26.500 --> 00:32.540]  Ansible Nexo Terraform is one of the most popular infrastructurist code
[00:32.540 --> 00:37.740]  and configuration management tools currently used in IT projects.
[00:38.660 --> 00:39.960]  And while you've already learned how to use it,
[00:39.960 --> 00:39.960]  you can also learn how to use it in the future.

[ryanheise]

What you're seeing displayed to the console is the raw transcript before it undergoes any formatting. It is displayed to the console only as an indicator of transcription progress. (As you may notice, it is not in SRT format).

--output_format srt will write the correctly formatted SRT to the file a.srt (since your input file is named a.mp4), and this file should be formatted according to the options you specify.

[HelloWorld668]

that's correct ! thank you so much !