Questions tagged [subtitles]
Use this tag when referring to subtitles on videos/movies etc...
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How can I re-sync the subtitle and the video using VLC media player?
When I play a movie with subtitles (on VLC media player), the text is often displayed too soon or too late. Is there a way to delay the starting point of the subtitles?
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How to extract subtitle from video using ffmpeg?
I am trying to extract subtitle from video as .srt file, I used the following command:
ffmpeg -i mytestmovie.mkv -vn -an -codec:s:0.1 srt sub.srt
But, I got an error as Unrecognized option codec:s:0:...
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How to extract subtitles from MP4 and MKV movies
I'm trying to extract subtitles from MP4 and MKV movies. I'm using mp4box (on OS X) but cannot figure out how it works.
Any hints?
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Open source command line subtitle converter [closed]
Are there any open source, command line, subtitle converters - preferably for Linux?
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How to add and remove subtitles in an MKV file?
I have a good quality MKV file that has several subtitle options. I want to add an additional subtitle file to the list. I'm using OSX.
Some search online led me to use video converters, and ...
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Remove embedded subtitles from an .mkv file?
Is there a way I can remove subtitle data from an .mkv?
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Extracting Subtitles from mkv file
I have installed MKVToolNix and Subtitle edit. I was able to extract subtitle using Subtitle edit through OCR. While it usable, it comes with a lot of errors.
Now I thought of using MKVToolNix to ...
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Use Media Player Classic to resynchronize subtitles?
I see that in Media Player Classic, under View - Subresync, there is a tool that should serve to resynchronize subtitles.
What is the procedure exactly?
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FFMPEG mkv to mp4 conversion loses subtitles
Currently trying to convert my mkv library to mp4 (Iphone 6 plus)
I've managed to get to mkv to mp4 conversion correctly, but I'm missing the subtitles part (SRT)
Here's my code:
dir/b/s *.mkv >...
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moving subtitle text up in *.srt file format
there is some formatting in srt subtitle files. for example
<i> blah blah blah </i>
for italic or
<u> blah blah blah </u>
for underline or
<font color="color name"&...
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Add another subtitles to matroska file, on Linux
I have Matroska file with some subtitles already built in. How can I add another subtitles, with proper language setting and encoding?
Tried:
mkvmerge -o output.mkv -S source.mkv new-subtitles.srt
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How can I change the subtitles font size in VLC Media Player?
That's my question: How can I change the subtitles font size in VLC Media Player? I try with Preferences > Video > Subtitles/OSD, but I can't find an option to change the font characteristics.
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Subtitles in VLC are displayed as question marks
I can't reproduce what made it happen, but since yesterday, for all the movies I play with VLC - their subtitles (Hebrew) are displayed as question marks.
Any resolution? Way to find the source of ...
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Combining video and subtitle files as one video?
I have a video file (in the format of .mp4, .mkv, .avi or whatever) and a subtitle file (.srt). I want to embed the subtitle file into the video file so that I have only one file - the video file in ...
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Hardcoding Subs with ffmpeg?
Is it possible to hardcode subs with ffmpeg? By hardcode, I mean overlaying the subtitles as pictures on top of the video, and would be unremovable because they would be a part of the video.
I tried ...
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How can I make VLC auto-select subtitles in an MKV file?
How can I make VLC auto-select subtitles in an MKV when it opens?
I would like to select the 'English Subtitles - [English]' from this image:
on auto-load (the reason for this is so I queue a list ...
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How do I get subtitles automatically? [closed]
I would like to use a movie player that downloads subtitles in the language of my preference automatically. Is there anything like it? And plugins?
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How to perfectly synchronize Subtitles with movie?
How to perfectly synchronize Subtitles with movie? i use VLC
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Is it possible to make a subtitle .srt file from an audio file? [closed]
Is it possible to make a subtitle .srt file from an audio file? If it is... how? I was thinking that there could be a program which recognizes the words people say in audio and then it can convert it ...
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How to play movie with subtitles using DLNA server?
Is there possibility to play a movie with subtitles using DLNA server?
Or only solution is to hard-code subtitles into a movie?
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What subtitle file editor for '.srt' files supports synchronization? [closed]
I downloaded .srt files for watching a French movie. But unfortunately, it is out of sync.
Is there any tool in Windows using which I could manually sync it specifying the start time?
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Hardcoding FFMPEG subtitles on MP4 / MKV
I am using FFMPEG to hard code subs into a video. Having read many posts on the best approach, and whether to use mkv or mp4, but am still none the wiser. The code below uses an mp4 file. The ...
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How do I hard code a movie with subtitles?
I have ripped my Kill Bill DVD's but the Japanese parts aren't subtitled in English... I found some subtitles online but the only ones which seem to work are the ones for the entire movie. I want to ...
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Good App to Download Subtitles for Windows [closed]
What is a good program to download synced subtitles for my movies while allowing me to specify the language I want?
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How to embed/hardcode SRT subtitles into mp4 videos with VLC?
I'm looking for a way to "burn in" or render/rembed/hardcode subtitles (from an SRT file) into an MP4 video with VLC.
But no matter what options I use, it never works properly. I get a file that ...
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Grab vtt subtitles from m3u8 stream
I have a video stream http://content.uplynk.com/ext/6790c94a453741799d3f3fb3bc9023a4/2493079.m3u8 which can be perfectly grabbed by ffmpeg command
ffmpeg -i "http://content.uplynk.com/ext/...
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Finding and Saving Media Player Classic downloaded subtitles?
Recently I discovered this feature which enables users to download subs directly from the MPC program. However, I thought that by default it downloaded the file directly to the folder where the movie ...
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Is there any software that can play a subtitle file without a video file? [closed]
My friend likes to stream movies through Netflix on her 360, and the problem with this is that Netflix does not usually provide subtitles or captioning on anything but foreign films. A few select ...
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Understanding FFMPEG Error Extracting Subtitles
I'm trying to extract some subtitles as an srt file because there are some lines I'd like to edit therein before remuxing the video.
Unfortunately I'm running into an error that I really don't ...
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Extract subtitles from movie
Some movies I download legally, contain embededd subtitles. I would like ego extract them as text files(.srt, .sub, etc) in order to view the movie on a samsung tv, which needs separate files for both ...
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VLC media player, how can I display subtitles for an mp3 file?
I have LaiShiXiong-zm015.mp3 and LaiShiXiong-zm015.srt. The latter is the real subtitle for that mp3 audio.
When playing the mp3 audio with VLC 3.0.4, VLC shows that it has recognized my subtitle as &...
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Any way to make VLC load srt files in the same directory automatically? (When they don't have the same name)
Is there any way to make VLC automatically load srt files in the same directory of the file playing? (When they don't have the same name)
Just wondering, would make my life a bit easier.
**I use ...
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How can I remove soft coded subtitles from mkv file? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Remove embedded subtitles from an .mkv file?
How can I remove soft coded subtitles from a .mkv file?
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VLC and automatic subtitles?
I used to watch my movies and series with VLC, but I got tired of always having to download the subtitles.
A long time ago, I read something about a VLC plugin to automatically download subtitles.
Do ...
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Is there a way to soft embed subtitles into an mp4 file without re-encoding?
I am trying to add an srt file(s) to mp4 files. Is there a way to do it without re-encoding the file.
What I have tried:
Added subtitles with the handbrake-cli. While this technically worked, it ...
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VLC’s subtitle sync delay function not working as expected
I downloaded a video from YouTube (about 1 hour film) and downloaded subtitle from the Subscene website and I put the video subtitle in the same folder with the same name.
When I play the video ...
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How can I fix delayed subtitles in videos?
I have subtitles that are already coded into a video, but which are delayed by 700ms.
I have about 50 episodes of a show and it's getting annoying to have to set the subtitle delay in VLC everytime I ...
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Using FFMPEG to add subtitles to a M4v video file
I am having troubles adding subtitles to a video file using ffmpeg.
I am using this command:
ffmpeg -i movie_input.m4v -newsubtitle subtitles.srt -acodec copy -vcodec copy movie_output.m4v
I found ...
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Download subtitles from TED talks for offline viewing
I'm wondering if it's possible to download subtitles for the TED talks for offline viewing.
Related on Stack Overflow
Parsing and Converting TED Talks JSON Subtitles.
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Re-RIP a DVD to extract AVI, MP3 and SRT files
I have been reading many articles for many days, and finally I found a very useful question in superuser (What tool can I use to to rip DVD movies?)
I have a large original DVD's collection and they ...
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ffmpeg copy attached fonts to be used by .ass subtitles
I have a .ass file that I want to mux into a video that requires additional fonts.
There seems to be no option to copy the attachments from one file to another, so I dumped them all using
ffmpeg -...
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Can VLC be set to enable subtitles by default?
I am looking for a way to set VLC so that by default it will enable a specific subtitle track (some people prefer to have these on by default just for ease of watching if there are multiple things ...
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Play *.srt subtitles in Windows Media Player?
Is there a way to play *.srt subtitles in Windows Media Player?
I've followed the instructions in this, by installing DirectVobSub and renaming the srt file to match the video filename, but the ...
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VLC shows all subtitles in italic and/or bold, depending on font
When I play a movie with external subtitles, VLC shows all subtitles in italic and/or bold, depending on font - I tested:
Arial, Times New Roman: everything appears italic, regardless of whether it's ...
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Changing subtitle format with ffmpeg
How can I change the subtitle format of a movie to .srt for example?
I have any movie (sound, video and an embedded subtitle). I just want to change the subtitles to .srt while leaving everything ...
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Add a stream using ffmpeg without creating a new file
I have some videos (.mp4) that have been tagged with metadata (descriptions, artwork, actors etc) and I now have subtitle files for them that I want to add as a stream.
I can use ffmpeg and set both ...
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Rip subtitles from DVD?
What software (on windows) do I need (and what is best) to rip subtitles from DVD's, so they are stored in a separate file, that can be used with vobsub or similar?
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Subtitles not displaying correctly in VLC
VLC player is not showing subtitles correctly. It's just showing capital "A"s in place of the correct text. Please check the screenshot attached to this post.
Do I need to install a missing font? How ...
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Batch merge/mux .srt with .mkv files
I have a folder with:
TVShow - Episode 01.mkv
TVShow - Episode 01.srt
TVShow - Episode 02.mkv
TVShow - Episode 02.srt
TVShow - Episode 03.mkv
TVShow - Episode 03.srt
and so on...
I already know ...
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Find all MKV files and remove all subtitles
I'm currently looking at a Windows program called mkvmerge. I would like to create a batch file to find all MKV files recursively from a specified path, and remove all subtitles from the MKV files ...
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