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Merge srt subtitles with mkvs?

post #1 of 14
2/4/10 at 11:27am
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Is it possible? i hate having folders for my movies just to put the subtitles file in the same folder, i want to insert the subtitles directly into the mkv .
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post #2 of 14
2/4/10 at 11:31am
You can use MKVtoolnix to put the sub file into the MKV file.
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post #3 of 14
2/20/10 at 3:35pm
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How i do i erase the existing subtitles?
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post #4 of 14
2/20/10 at 3:57pm
right click and delete the srt?
If you are talking about an existing sub in the mkv you should be able to just uncheck it in mkvtoolnix.
I like to reencode the mkv with hard subs myself since the only time i use subs is movies that dont have 100% english (district 9 and 2012 the first that come to mind). But that takes a few hours.
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post #5 of 14
2/20/10 at 4:06pm
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Originally Posted by bighick View Post

right click and delete the srt?
If you are talking about an existing sub in the mkv you should be able to just uncheck it in mkvtoolnix.
I like to reencode the mkv with hard subs myself since the only time i use subs is movies that dont have 100% english (district 9 and 2012 the first that come to mind). But that takes a few hours.

Yes , all i had to do was uncheck it.

Whats that default/forced track option all about ?

By the way i get an error playing the files i modified with mkvmerge , movie player says: An error ocurred, Can't display both text subtitles and subpictures.
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post #6 of 14
2/22/10 at 9:57am
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Originally Posted by Tijs_Verwest View Post

Yes , all i had to do was uncheck it.

Whats that default/forced track option all about ?

By the way i get an error playing the files i modified with mkvmerge , movie player says: An error ocurred, Can't display both text subtitles and subpictures.

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post #7 of 14
2/22/10 at 10:37am
What tracks do you have in the MKV that you cant play?
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post #8 of 14
2/22/10 at 10:56am
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Originally Posted by aplejaks48 View Post

What tracks do you have in the MKV that you cant play?

i get the error after i attach the srt subtititles i want to play, it plays fine in xbmc, but i cant play the modified mkv ( with mkvmerge) in movie player (totem)
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post #9 of 14
2/22/10 at 12:16pm
So when you open the MKV in mkvtoolnix, there are two tracks: one video file and one srt file?
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post #10 of 14
2/26/10 at 2:35pm
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This is the error screen:



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Originally Posted by aplejaks48 View Post

So when you open the MKV in mkvtoolnix, there are two tracks: one video file and one srt file?

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post #11 of 14
2/27/10 at 7:18am
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anyone?
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post #12 of 14
2/27/10 at 7:37am
The mkv file in the screencaps has two kinds of subtitles - VOBSUB and TEXT. The VOBSUB kind is the native format for DVDs - each subtitle is actually a picture that the DVD player overlays on top of the video. The TEXT format subtitle is just regular text like in a word processor.

The error that totem is giving is that it does not like VOBSUB (subpictures) and TEXT subtitles in the same mkv. I would call that a bug in totem - at the very least it should let you pick one and ignore the other.

But the fix should be simple - just remove the unneeded subtitle tracks with mkvtoolnix the same way you added a subtitle.

PS - the "default/forced" stuff is for two things that kind of overlap
1: default - if there are multiple subtitle tracks, the one with "default" set will play if subtitles are turned on in your player
2: forced - even if subtitles are turned off in your player, the forced set will play anyway - this is good for things like translations where the movie is primarly in your native language but maybe there is a sign or a character says a couple of lines in another language - not all players obey the "forced" flag
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post #13 of 14
2/27/10 at 9:11am
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Originally Posted by JerryW View Post

The mkv file in the screencaps has two kinds of subtitles - VOBSUB and TEXT. The VOBSUB kind is the native format for DVDs - each subtitle is actually a picture that the DVD player overlays on top of the video. The TEXT format subtitle is just regular text like in a word processor.

The error that totem is giving is that it does not like VOBSUB (subpictures) and TEXT subtitles in the same mkv. I would call that a bug in totem - at the very least it should let you pick one and ignore the other.

But the fix should be simple - just remove the unneeded subtitle tracks with mkvtoolnix the same way you added a subtitle.

PS - the "default/forced" stuff is for two things that kind of overlap
1: default - if there are multiple subtitle tracks, the one with "default" set will play if subtitles are turned on in your player
2: forced - even if subtitles are turned off in your player, the forced set will play anyway - this is good for things like translations where the movie is primarly in your native language but maybe there is a sign or a character says a couple of lines in another language - not all players obey the "forced" flag

So, my file is fine then? and i should just ignore totem?
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post #14 of 14
2/27/10 at 11:47am
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Originally Posted by Tijs_Verwest View Post

So, my file is fine then? and i should just ignore totem?

If you do not want to play them in totem then, yes, you can ignore the error.
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