diff --git a/src/withHTMLSubtitles/subtitlesConverter.js b/src/withHTMLSubtitles/subtitlesConverter.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c854131
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/withHTMLSubtitles/subtitlesConverter.js
@@ -0,0 +1,67 @@
+// from: https://github.com/silviapfeiffer/silviapfeiffer.github.io/blob/master/index.html#L150-L216
+
+function srt2webvtt(data) {
+    // remove dos newlines
+    var srt = data.replace(/\r+/g, '');
+    // trim white space start and end
+    srt = srt.replace(/^\s+|\s+$/g, '');
+    // get cues
+    var cuelist = srt.split('\n\n');
+    var result = '';
+    if (cuelist.length > 0) {
+        result += 'WEBVTT\n\n';
+        for (var i = 0; i < cuelist.length; i=i+1) {
+            result += convertSrtCue(cuelist[i]);
+        }
+    }
+    return result;
+}
+
+function convertSrtCue(caption) {
+    // remove all html tags for security reasons
+    caption = caption.replace(/<[a-zA-Z/][^>]*>/g, '');
+
+    var cue = '';
+    var s = caption.split(/\n/);
+    // concatenate muilt-line string separated in array into one
+    while (s.length > 3) {
+        for (var i = 3; i < s.length; i++) {
+            s[2] += '\n' + s[i];
+        }
+        s.splice(3, s.length - 3);
+    }
+    var line = 0;
+    // detect identifier
+    if (!s[0].match(/\d+:\d+:\d+/) && s[1].match(/\d+:\d+:\d+/)) {
+        cue += s[0].match(/\w+/) + '\n';
+        line += 1;
+    }
+    // get time strings
+    if (s[line].match(/\d+:\d+:\d+/)) {
+        // convert time string
+        var m = s[1].match(/(\d+):(\d+):(\d+)(?:,(\d+))?\s*--?>\s*(\d+):(\d+):(\d+)(?:,(\d+))?/);
+        if (m) {
+            cue += m[1]+':'+m[2]+':'+m[3]+'.'+m[4]+' --> '
+                  +m[5]+':'+m[6]+':'+m[7]+'.'+m[8]+'\n';
+            line += 1;
+        } else {
+            // Unrecognized timestring
+            return '';
+        }
+    } else {
+        // file format error or comment lines
+        return '';
+    }
+    // get cue text
+    if (s[line]) {
+        cue += s[line] + '\n\n';
+    }
+    return cue;
+}
+
+module.exports = {
+    convert: function(text) {
+        // presume all to be SRT if not WEBVTT
+        return text.includes('WEBVTT') ? text : srt2webvtt(text);
+    }
+};
diff --git a/src/withHTMLSubtitles/withHTMLSubtitles.js b/src/withHTMLSubtitles/withHTMLSubtitles.js
index ec928fb..7d5a81e 100644
--- a/src/withHTMLSubtitles/withHTMLSubtitles.js
+++ b/src/withHTMLSubtitles/withHTMLSubtitles.js
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ var deepFreeze = require('deep-freeze');
 var ERROR = require('../error');
 var subtitlesParser = require('./subtitlesParser');
 var subtitlesRenderer = require('./subtitlesRenderer');
+var subtitlesConverter = require('./subtitlesConverter');
 
 function withHTMLSubtitles(Video) {
     function VideoWithHTMLSubtitles(options) {
@@ -214,6 +215,9 @@ function withHTMLSubtitles(Video) {
                             .then(function(resp) {
                                 return resp.text();
                             })
+                            .then(function(text) {
+                                return subtitlesConverter.convert(text);
+                            })
                             .then(function(text) {
                                 return subtitlesParser.parse(text);
                             })