This was actually spotted by mokubai in his comment under this question: there's a similar question on AskUbuntu forums, and one of the answers supplies a complete script, however it is not working. I know there already are several answers in here, but neither completely answers the question if you need to use command line on macOS, so I am adding mine too.

for forced Engling track or for unforcedįfprobe '%%f' -v panic -show_entries stream=index -select_streams v -of compact=p=0:nk=1 > probetmpfileįor /F %%a in (tmpfile) do set fileIsBlank=0 REM A Windows Batch-script that extracts SRT subtitles from MKV video files. It's not very beautyful but it works for med :-) OFF Each resulting subtitle file is named with weather or not it´s forced as well as the language. She script loops all mkv files in current directory and generates one srt file for each sub. Maybe just one aspect but me myself just wrote a simple script as a Windows batch file to extract all SRT subtitles fråm a MKV video. As you mention ffmpeg -i filename.mkv is also usable. Though the comments suggest using mkvmerge -i to get a more directly usable track number for mkvextract. Use mkvinfo to get information about tracks.

I found it more reliable and accurate than SubtitleEdit alone, for some reason its DVD/MKV extractor is not entirely reliable.įor command line and alternative operating systems (you mention Ubuntu) you can use mkvextract which is a part of mkvtoolnix that you have already installed.įrom an answer by Cornelius in Extract subtitles from mkv on AskUbuntu: You can then import these files into SubtitleEdit. For DVD subtitles it will export two files, the index of subtitle time and position locations and the actual graphical subtitles. You can simply drag and drop an MKV file (or files) on to it, click the check boxes for the tracks you want to extract, and then click 'Extract Tracks'.īy default your subtitle tracks will then be exported with the name FileName_TrackNo.ext. I use MKVCleaver for this as it provides a simple GUI interface for mkvtoolnix on Windows.

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