WEBVTT Invalid use of < and > characters. 2 00:00:31.000 --> 00:01:00.500 align:start position:20% This cue has a less than < character. It turns everything from there on into an annotation for an empty tag and ends only at the next > or & character. 3 00:01:01.000 --> 00:02:00.500 align:start position:20% This cue has a greater than > character. Since it's not related to a < character, it's just interpreted as text.