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Based on a question from a user trying to use the internal MythTV player is display subtitles embedded in MKV files,
 
Based on a question from a user trying to use the internal MythTV player is display subtitles embedded in MKV files,
 
[[http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/322781#322781|robthebob]] suggests the following workaround to extract SRT subtitles from MKV files.
 
[[http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/322781#322781|robthebob]] suggests the following workaround to extract SRT subtitles from MKV files.

Latest revision as of 22:51, 17 October 2011

Time.png Outdated: This task no longer necessary. SRT subtitles embedded into Matroska containers have been supported by the internal player since the 0.24 release

Based on a question from a user trying to use the internal MythTV player is display subtitles embedded in MKV files, [[1]] suggests the following workaround to extract SRT subtitles from MKV files. 

$ mkvinfo film.mkv | grep subtitles -B3
| + A track
| + Track number: 3
| + Track UID: 2131733228
| + Track type: subtitles
$ mkvextract tracks film.mkv 3:film.srt

This is necessary because there is no support in MythTV's internal player for embedded subtitles. If you have a number of files in a directory that share the same track number for their subtitles (track 3 in the previous and following examples), you can avoid having to mkvextract each line by using the following bash loop. 

for file in *.mkv; 
do 
  mkvextract tracks "$file" 3:"${file/mkv/srt}"; 
done

The package that contains mkvinfo and mkvextract is 'mkvtoolnix' in Ubuntu.

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