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lisamelton / other_video_transcoding

Other tools to transcode videos.
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add external subtitle #154

Closed rnpasinos closed 2 years ago

rnpasinos commented 2 years ago

how do i include external subtitles (srt, idx/sub, etc.)?

skj-dev commented 2 years ago

I'm pretty sure merging in an external subtitle file would be considered outside the scope of other-transcode, as it assumes any subtitles are already embedded into the source file. You can, however, use MKVToolNix to merge in an external subtitle. If you do that first with the source file, you can then instruct other-transcode to include it in the transcode.

While I've never personally done this, the following instructions seem straight forward:

https://www.easytechguides.com/merge-subtitles-with-mkv/

lisamelton commented 2 years ago

My thanks to @ttyS0 for that excellent comment and suggestion!

@rnpasinos Does that answer your question?

rnpasinos commented 2 years ago

got it! what @ttyS0 commented is what i'm actually doing, but using MKVToolNix Batch Tool instead as it's more convenient for multiple videos and subtitles. i was just wondering if there is an argument for external subs to "skip" that step. thanks!