Support for youtube json3 subtitles format

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by changing the fmt param when downloading a subtitles to json3, you can get a json format which despite me not understanding fully what it contains, it feels like it’s more complete compared to the other subtitles Please add a support for it (I got a workaround for myself but I think it should be in the main module/library)

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dirkfcommented, Jun 7, 2022

It presumably does in yt-dlp. With any luck we just need this (diff from yt-dl to yt-dlp):

-    _SUBTITLE_FORMATS = ('srv1', 'srv2', 'srv3', 'ttml', 'vtt')
+    _SUBTITLE_FORMATS = ('json3', 'srv1', 'srv2', 'srv3', 'ttml', 'vtt')

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dirkfcommented, Jun 17, 2022

Resolved by https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/commit/811c480f7b6c25ca510a033e6365d00174135392.

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