Questions tagged [subtitles]
Use this tag when referring to subtitles on videos/movies etc...
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Change the speed of subtitles in an srt file
I have a set of videos that were recorded at 25 fps. That was the original speed of the video and I want to keep it that way. The video and audio work fine.
I have a corresponding set of subtitle ...
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Play YouTube video in VLC with subtitles (if available)
I want to play youtube video such as Authoritarianism: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) in VLC Player. As this video has subtitles, can I play it in VLC along with the subtitles?
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FFMPEG Subtitle Burning - Make Them Look Like Youtube Captions
I want to burn subtitles into videos and make them look as close to the YouTube captions as possible. I've gotten pretty close with the following:
ffmpeg -i VIDEOFILE.mkv -vf subtitles="f=SUBSFILE....
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how to embed RTL subtitles in a video (hebrew, arabic, ...) with the correct language directionality?
I try to hard-code subtitles in a video, by re-encoding the video with the subtitles as graphics (and NOT as an additional stream).
The subtitles are in Hebrew / Arabic.
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Play youtube auto-generated subtitles offline to show word-by-word exactly like youtube player
How to play youtube auto-generated word-by-word subtitles offline so that they're shown word-by-word, not sentence-by-sentence?
I'm able to download auto-generated subtitles using youtube-dl:
youtube-...
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Extracting subtitles from MKV files with ffmpeg or mplayer
An MKV file containing multiple sets of subtitles refuses to play them on a SmartTV or similar devices, seeing no subtitles at all. mplayer manages the file without problems. Here's what is in the ...
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SSA/ASS Subtitles - Use frame number instead of time?
I'm trying to construct subtitle tracks from an array of known text strings. The ASS subtitle format can allow me to burn those strings on screen at known timing intervals.
However, I don't want to ...
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How do I remove hardcoded subtitles?
I have a video. There are hardcoded subtitles (chinese) in this video but I want to add my own english subtitles.
How do I remove them?
Is it possible to put a black rectangle over the subtitles and ...
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Extract S_VOBSUB encoded Subtitles from .MKV container as .SRT
I am working in Linux (Ubuntu)
I tried to do it with ffmpeg and mkvtoolnix (mkvextract track)
Problems:
ffmpeg does not work with S_VOBSUB encoded subtitles
mkvtoolnix converts S_VOBSUB to .idx/.sub (...
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Hardsubbing MKV files that use .ass subtitles and embedded fonts
This question pertains only to Linux and FreeBSD.
I have several soft subbed anime mkv files that I need to hardsub. they are all using .ass subtitles with embedded fonts. for example mkvinfo on one ...
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Subtitle encoding issue with mkvtoolnix
I've attached a few subtitles to a MKV with mkvtoolnix, but it appears that after muxing, the character encoding is messed up.
The input subtitles were UTF-8 encoded. I don't know what's the character ...
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Huge video duration after PGS subtitles burn onto video
i'm trying to burn subtitles onto video stream and something weird happens.
This is my video file before the process:
ffprobe version N-107936-gf99d15cca0-20220829 Copyright (c) 2007-2022 the FFmpeg ...
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Batch file to recursively mux .mp4 and .srt from different folders
There is a new trend in torrents to release TV and Movies as x265 .mp4 with .srt subs in a separate folder, following this folder structure:
Season1\title1.mp4
Season1\title2.mp4
Season1\title3.mp4
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Extracting QuickTime mov_text subtitles with ffmpeg
I have a .mov file that has mov_text-formatted subtitle tracks that were created using the old (now deprecated) QuickTime 7 Pro's "Text Track" feature. This is what ffmpeg -i myfile.mov ...
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Move .ass subtitles below the video
I am watching a show in 1920x960 format on my 1920x1080 screen in VLC player, with subtitles coming from an .ass file. This is what it looks like:
I would like to move the subtitles into the black ...
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For VLC, is there a way to set up or put info in videos so that certain videos will start with subs on but others will start with subs off?
I'm trying to set up videos beforehand so that whenever I play one, some videos will start with subtitles, and other videos will start with subtitles off even though they have subtitle tracks ...
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Would extracting hard-coded subtitles like this work?
I have an mp4 with hardcoded subtitles and I want to make an SRT file.
I tried using the video OCR software AviSub. It got the timings right but the words itself were very innacurate, so I got an SRT ...
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Burn in delayed subtitles
I would like to burn subtitles into a video file using a console program. Previously I used ffmpeg to do that:
ffmpeg -i input.mkv -vf subtitles=sub.srt -strict -2 out.mp4
However, I am having ...
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How to remove hardcoded subtitles from a movie file?
I downloaded a movie in MP4 format, which has japanesse subtitles hardcoded in the video. How can I remove these subtitles in order to use czech subtitles downloaded in SRT format without being ...
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Subtitles for multilingual DVD audio tracks in VLC
I've been using VLC to watch DVDs for a while, but many of them have portions in different languages to the main audio-track. For example, there are numerous Spanish-language scenes in Breaking Bad, ...
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Is it possible to embed subtitles in an MP4 with the forced option in MeGui?
I want to show subtitles with my web player (it supports Flash and HTML5). I'm using the MP4 format and I can add subtitles to the player with an external SRT file, but I want to embed subtitle to my ...
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Using Handbrake with Dropfolders to add subtitle automatically
I am using Handbrake GUI version and Dropfolders to execute Handbrake. I was able convert video files successfully without any parameter. It uses default preset I downloaded from lifehacker.com. Now I ...
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How to burn DVB subtitles into a video file for PS3?
I have recorded some TV programs using MythTV that contain DVB(-C) subtitles. I would like to play them on my PS3 with subtitles enabled. The playback on my PS3 works just fine, except that I can't ...
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How to simply remove subtitles and language streams from TS videos with Handbrake?
I use Handbrake to transcode some of my MPEG-2 Transport Stream videos, but I'm not pleased with the resulting quality, even if set to high bitrates.
So my idea is to simply remove unwanted audio ...
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How to merge subtitle and video files onto one DVD
I'm helping out a small educational group here in Denmark with translating English DVD course material into Danish, simply by adding danish subtitles to the movie. However, I'm having a hard time ...
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Adding subtitles to a DVD with dvdauthor
How do I add subtitles to a DVD that I'm authoring using dvdauthor?
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How to get SubEdit under Windows 7 working?
I need SubEdit Player to run under Windows 7.
But every time I try to start I get "Class not registered" error. Yes, I tried to install the Vista Patch, but doesn't work under Win 7.
Anybody got any ...
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Add soft subtitles with formatting and position
I’ve been using ffmpeg to do everything so far with a video, stringing animation frames together, adding audio, overlaying images, and adding subtitles. So I expect that the answer to my question ...
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Burn AVI with embedded subtitles to DVD on a Mac?
I have an AVI file that has subtitles within the file itself (no .srt) that I need to burn to DVD on a Mac for a presentation at work. How do I accomplish this?
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How to extract subtitle timestamps using ffprobe (not working as expected)?
I am trying to extract subtitle timestamps from a M2TS file using ffprobe. This does not work as expected. The M2TS file is known to contain 1001 subtitles in track 4, but I am getting about 4000 ...
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ilovepdf desktop leaves warning message
ilovepdf desktop program shows the message "Your PDFs have been converted successfully" when the conversion process is completed while right-clicking on Windows. The question is, how to ...
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Generating ffmpeg command to mux in subtitles matching the style of VLC
I am trying to mux in subtitles with ffmpeg, but I am having trouble getting the desired style and output with a reference point being VLC's standard format of showing subtitles matching the look of ...
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How to add multiple audio and subtitle tracks to video?
I'm trying to add an audio track and three subtitle tracks to a video file with already one audio track, but can't get it to work. How does it work (on Linux in case it isn't obvious)?
The subtitle ...
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Metadata for closed captioned subtitles
I have a video file (mp4.mp4) and two subtitle files (cc.srt and sub.srt).
Both subtitle files are in English but the first one has sound effects "[gasps]" and "[coughs]".
If I add ...
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ffmpeg subtitles does not copy text, only timestamps when converting ass to srt
I've been trying to convert an mkv to mp4 without loosing subtitles, however nothing has worked so far. I've narrowed it down to some sort of bug (I think). I can extract the subtitles from the mkv to ...
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How can I extract a subtitle in "HDMV PGS" format from a video with FFmpeg?
I'm trying to extract a subtitle in "HDMV PGS" format embedded in a video with this command ffmpeg -i Movie.mkv -map 0:s:0 subs.srt from an answer on Super User command, but it gives the ...
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How to I use MKVmerge to add sbtitles to MKV but disable all of them
I came across mkvmerger.bat on this site and it works really well for me (How to mkvmerge all videos and subtitles with the same file name)
BUT
It seems to set the last subtitle file as the default (...
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How to hard code / embed subtitles of videos inside a folder with FFMPEG
Lets say I have folder A with lots of videos that have TX3G subtitles
Some videos don't have any subtitles
So I need a windows command to process all videos inside this folder and embed / hard code ...
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Final Cut Pro subtitle coordinates are not as expected when the project is vertical
For landscape video
Create a project with 1920x1080 resolution
Add a 1920x1080 resolution image and add a subtitle by pressing control+T
Let's take a look when the subtitle on these four positions ...
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Subtitles misaligned/missing when cutting video using ffmpeg
TL;DR: After cutting a video with ffmpeg, subtitles are invisible in VLC player even though there is a subtitle stream.
I have an MP4 file of a TV recording of a movie and I want to cut off the parts ...
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FFmpeg: Issues muxing/copying ASS subtitle streams from one MKV source with another MKV, causes 33secs of missing subtitle at the beginning
Hey first time posting,
But I really tried to look all around for a solution, even tried a couple of options that worked for me before for a similar issue with WebVTT from another solution [here].
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How to Batch Merge Identically-Named Subtitles and Audio Files Into a .MKV File
I am very unfamiliar with how batch processing with MKVToolNix (I just barely know how to save a .bat file and make it use MKVToolNix), so forgive me if this is obvious. I found an answer here (Batch ...
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How to OCR the hardcoded Korean subtitles from a movie?
I got a Chinese movie called "Xin li zui (2017)" with Korean subtitles, burned into it. Or, 'hardcoded'. Now, with an French, Spanish or English subbed movie or just any movie which uses the ...
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How to specify subtitle palette in MKV-file with ffmpeg?
How could I please define the subtitle palette in an MKV-file?
(Already asked in http://ffmpeg.org/pipermail/ffmpeg-user/2020-May/048826.html but without any answer.)
I would like to convert videos ...
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Is it possible to remove all not translation related captions/subtitles from an SRT file?
I want to remove the captions from subtitles in SRT files. I just want the translations in movies not everything they say and all the SRTs I’ve come across don’t have the markers that show a ...
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ffmpeg doesn't see subtitle in mp4
I have mp4 file, which has the subtitle stream according VLC player (ttml). But FFMpeg see only video and audio stream.
Why could it happen and if it's possible to fix it? Or if it's another tools ...
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FFMPEG - Encoding video changes sounds and subtitles tracks names, and make them invisible for SmartTV / Chromecast
First of all, I'm not sure this is the right place for such question.
Please let me know if I'm wrong.
INTRODUCTION:
I'm regularly recording movies on french channels, via a functionality of my NAS.
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rip DVD and overlay only "single" subtitle track, using VLC
I'm using these tutorials to rip a DVD into a video file (with a subtitle track "burned" or permanently overlayed into the video).
https://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-rip-DVDs-for-free-with-VLC/
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How to change offset of EIA-608 subtitles in an MP4?
I have an MP4 file containing H.264 Video, AAC Audio, and EIA-608 Closed Captions:
Input #0, mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2, from 'file.mp4':
Metadata:
major_brand : isom
minor_version : 512
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VLC Media Player opening subtitle from the same folder as movie
Until the last upgrade of VLC, when I tried to open a subtitle for a movie, after choosing the "open subtitle" in the menu, a window opened showing the same folder where the movie file was located. (I ...
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