Questions tagged [subtitles]
Use this tag when referring to subtitles on videos/movies etc...
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How do I automatically generate subtitles for a 3-hour-long movie?
Sorry I don't have anywhere else better to ask this question
I have a Japanese video that is 3 hours long. There are two-people conversations throughout the mp4 video with long pauses in between. I ...
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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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Is there a way to avoid overlaying subtitle text on video frame?
I have a 20150928 WPA Basics.mp4 and a 20150928 WPA Basics.srt. When play that mp4 file using VLC 3.0.4 on Windows. I see the following scene:
You see, the subtitle text overlays the video content, ...
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Is there any ffmpeg option to rescale too fast/slow subtitles?
I found subtitles to an old movie but no one fits to it correctly. I found a delay option like:
ffmpeg -itsoffset 2 -i subtitles.srt -c copy subtitles_delayed.srt
which could fit it at current frame, ...
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mpv: How to play audio with SRT subtitles?
Is there a way to get mpv to display external .srt subtitles with audio files?
In vlc this can be achieved by enabling Audio > Visualizations > Spectrometer, and then in advanced Settings under ...
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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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How to combine these two FFmpeg commands into one command?
I'm using ffmpeg to modify multiple .mp4 files.
First I use this command to change the default language from eng to fr.
ffmpeg.exe -i "imput 1.mp4" -map 0 -c copy -disposition:a:0 0 -...
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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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Unable to find a suitable output format for 'copy' copy: Invalid argument - ffmpeg Error
I'm trying to get the video and first voice channel with converted AAC. Also trying to add a subtitle.
The command I've used is:
ffmpeg -i yourmkv.mkv -i yoursubtitles.srt -map 0:v -map 0:a -map 1:s -...
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How the options to set/unset a default subtitle stream interact?
Using ffmpeg. Say I have an input video file with several subtitles, one of them being flagged "default" (say the 0:s:1 stream, that is the 2nd subtitle stream). I am copying all of them: -...
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Set default subtitle language based on language code (eng, spa, etc.), not the stream specifier
I batch downloaded videos from a channel, but the subtitle languages available for each video are not consistent. Is there a way to set a default subtitle using the language code (e.g. eng, spa, fra, ...
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ffmpeg/ffprobe won't detect the language of a WEBvtt (subtitles) file
A WEBvtt subtitle file starts with a few header lines, and one of them indicates the language:
WEBVTT
Kind: captions
Language: en
00:00:09.977 --> 00:00:11.563
I'd like you to take
a look at this ...
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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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Subtitles - Muxing but removing info from title
So I've got some files being muxed into an mkv file and I add a subtitle to it. I want to remove the [gre] (ass) part from the following subtitle info (title):
Example Here
Code:
ffmpeg.exe -i video....
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How do I customize the timeshift parameter of the delay subtitle keyboard shortcut in VLC?
I always use subtitles when watching movies/TV shows, and kept using BSPlayer just because of the keyboard shortcuts it offers to tweak the subtitles on the fly. And I use these shortcuts a lot.
For ...
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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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Disabling subtitles within M3U playlists
I have hundreds of playlists, some days-long, that run on my media machine. But if there are MKV files with subtitles VLC is displaying the subtitles all the time. It is distracting and I have to ...
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How to add metadata to subtitle?
I'm trying to add language metadata to existing external .ass subtitles, but it doesn't seem to work. I'm using ffmpeg -i input.ass -map 0 "-metadata:s:s:0" "language=eng" "-...
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How to do automatically transfer subtitles from one video to another ? (based on video stream)
I have the following :
a mkv file (let's call it A) with video, audio and subtitles correctly synchronized.
another mkv file (let's call it B) with video and audio also synchronized but without ...
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VLC audio randomly out of sync after subitiles embeded
I can't find an answer anywhere so hope someone might help. I've used VLC for years always works fine.
I recently used it to embed subtitles, watched multiple tutorials and the embeded subtitles work ...
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How to make youtube-dl (yt-dlp) generate subtitles properly and not duplicate the text?
I'm using yt-dlp to download some videos, and I've told it to embed the subtitles. This seems to work, except it's generating subtitles in the most horrible way by duplicating the text.
For example, ...
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How can I force a subtitle track to be set as active on an MP4 video?
I'm converting .mkv's to mp4 and it's working, however the issue is that when I open the .mp4, the subtitle track is disabled by default.
I have to manually select it as such:
How can I make it so ...
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ffprobe OCR of a subtitle stream
I have some video files containing HDMV PGS subtitles, and I need to convert them to subrip (or other text subtitles). I know that I can ffmpeg demux the video file to extract .sup and on the fly ...
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FFMPEG: boost video volume but preserve subtitles
Using as input video files that contain subtitle streams, currently I use this command to boost volume while copying video:
ffmpeg -i input_file -vcodec copy -af "volume=10.0dB" ...
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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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FFMpeg Softsub ass to mp4 using custom font
Requirement
I'm trying to add an ass subtitle file to a mp4 video. I want the text to use system/custom fonts and have a certain position.
My test
This is an example of my ass file:
[Script Info]
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How to convert audio/video file to SRT?
I want to convert audio/video file to SRT. I've tried these commands:
ffmpeg -i sample.mp4 sample.srt
ffmpeg -threads 4 -i sample.mp4 -vn -an -codec:s:0.2 srt sample.srt
But then I learned that it ...
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How to convert text-based subtitles to image-based subtitles?
I want to convert an ass type subtitle track into a dvd_subtitle type track.
I know I can't simply ask ffmpeg to convert it with -c:s dvd_subtitle, but there must be another simple way, since video ...
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VLC Subtitles are cut off/looping around?
I have a .mkv file with .srt subtitles.
For some reason, sometimes the last letter of the top row of subtitles gets cut in half, and the half that gets cut off appears at the front of the sentence?
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Can I make VLC to show English subtitles if the language is not English except when it is Russian?
The title says it all. Can I make VLC to show English subtitles if the language is not English except when it is Russian?
I like foreign TV series, e.g. French, German, Spanish and Portuguese (sorry, ...
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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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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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Extracting DVB_subtitles with ffmpeg fails with empty file / nothing encoded
These are the streams contained:
Stream #0:0[0x247]: Video: mpeg2video (Main) ([2][0][0][0] / 0x0002), yuv420p(tv, top first), 720x576 [SAR 64:45 DAR 16:9], 25 fps, 25 tbr, 90k tbn, 50 tbc
Stream #...
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ffmpeg adding subtitles with options
Hi I'm having trouble adding options to subtitles: I can only add 1 attribute.
ffmpeg -i "video.mp4" -vf 'subtitles=subtitles.srt:force_style=Fontname=Z003,PrimaryColour=&HCCFF0000' -y &...
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Use ffmpeg to convert .mkv to .mp4 while retaining hard-embedded subs
I'm trying to convert an mkv video into mp4 while keeping the hard-embedded subs. Extra information is below - does anyone know which command I should use to make this work?
So far I've tried these ...
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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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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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Removal of select subtitle tracks and audio tracks from mkv file in batch
My problem is that I have 2 subtitle tracks, one is named "English signs and songs" and another is called "English full". I also have English and Japanese audio tracks (dual audio)....
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ffmpeg: mkv to mp4 with subtitles hardcoded
I don't understand something. I'm trying this:
ffmpeg -i input.mkv -map 0:0 -map 0:2 -map 0:3 -vf subtitles=input.mkv output.mp4
But I have this error:
Automatic encoder selection failed for output ...
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ffmpeg subtitles filter input pad error
What am I doing wrong? I'm trying to make this work for a couple of hours now. I know it has something to do with the subtitles filter but couldn't figure it out.
If I run a sample command, such as ...
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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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Why are subtitles not showing in SMPlayer?
My OS is ubuntu 20.04 LTS and I am using SMPlayer 19.10.2.
Randomly some videos do not display subtitles, gives no error when loading subtitle file… Recently, one of the videos that should display ...
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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 do I copy a specific subtitle track, by language, with FFmpeg?
I have a video file with 30+ subtitles from which I want to save only the English subtitle track.
Input #0, matroska,webm, from 'Galaxy.mkv':
Metadata:
title : Galaxy.720p.WEBRip.x264-...
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How can I eliminate overlapping subtitles in VLC media player?
I am trying to watch a video with subtitles in VLC media player. But subtitles are overlapping making them difficult to read. How can I fix this? :
PS: video file is .mp4, subtitles file is .srt.
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Is there a way to download the auto generated subtitles of videos in a private / public YouTube playlist?
I found this cool Reddit link here which basically does what the title says, but this stuff felt a bit confusing to me. Can somebody please suggest if there's a better way to download the ...
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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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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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ffmpeg: adding subtitles (.srt) to MKV only adds first subtitle frame
I am trying to add a separate .srt file to an existing MKV container using ffmpeg:
> ffmpeg -i 'input.mkv' -fix_sub_duration -i 'subtitles.srt' -map 0 -c copy -map 1 -c:s:1 srt 'output.mkv'
I am ...
