Maintaining hard coded subtitles with .mkv files
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I don't understand the question, if they are hard coded then the subtitles are part of the image frames themselves and as such will be retained when converted to .mp4 or .vob
.mkv's usually have soft subtitles, in which case you'd check if you're destination container supports this and convert accordingly. If it doesn't support soft subtitles then you need to re-encode the file with the soft subtitles to essentially make them hard coded. You want to avoid re-encoding video to retain quality so stick to soft subs where ever possible.
.mkv's usually have soft subtitles, in which case you'd check if you're destination container supports this and convert accordingly. If it doesn't support soft subtitles then you need to re-encode the file with the soft subtitles to essentially make them hard coded. You want to avoid re-encoding video to retain quality so stick to soft subs where ever possible.
Hard coded mean they are part of the video. Converting a hardcoded subtitled video to AVI would still keep it..
Handbrake lets you select subtitles and you can save to MP4.
Personally, I'd never convert any videos, just use media players that can play that filetype instead.
Why do you want to convert them?
Handbrake lets you select subtitles and you can save to MP4.
Personally, I'd never convert any videos, just use media players that can play that filetype instead.
Why do you want to convert them?
If you want to mess about with the subtitles then you can de-mux the .mkv and you should end up with the subtitle file. A tool to do this is MKVToolNix (which is command line based) and MKVExtractGUI (small GUI program you put in the MKVTollNix folder to make it simpler to start of using)
Personally i'd stick to just handbrake if .mp4 is acceptable, you want to select the "burn in" option under subtitles to hardcode them.
Personally i'd stick to just handbrake if .mp4 is acceptable, you want to select the "burn in" option under subtitles to hardcode them.
Surely you have a DLNA or at least a USB capable setup, by now?I want to burn the .mkv files to DVD so I can view them on my home kit
Ha, yeah I do but it was just foxing me that I didn't know how to do what I was attempting to do... In the end I settled upon converting the mkv to mp4 and combining that with a separate srt file. Long winded but it worked!
Thanks guys.