Jekyll2017-12-31T11:28:38+01:00/Website van Pim Vellinga 2017-08-26T17:00:00+02:002017-08-26T17:00:00+02:00/2017/08/26/Extracting-a-SRT-file-from-a-MKV-container<p>If you are an avid serie/movies watcher like me, this might be a usefull one-liner. I always have the problem that my Plex setup does not ‘understand’ baked-in subtitles, resulting in whacky subtitles and subtitles being out of sync.</p> <p>I found out out that its really easy to extract the subtitle’s .srt file using a Windows cli tool called MKVToolNix. You can find MKVToolNix <a href="https://mkvtoolnix.download/downloads.html">here</a> The following command will provide you information about the target .mkv file:</p> <p><code class="highlighter-rouge">mkvinfo.exe &lt;filename&gt; </code></p> <p>This will give an overview of all ‘tracks’ in the .mkv container. Don’t forget which track ID contains the subtitle!</p> <p>Next, we will use the track ID to extract the subtitle from the .mkv movie using the following command:</p> <p><code class="highlighter-rouge">mkvextract.exe tracks &lt;your_mkv_video&gt;&lt;track_numer&gt;:&lt;subtitle_file.srt&gt;</code></p> <p>This should save your .srt file in the location you provided!</p>

If you are an avid serie/movies watcher like me, this might be a usefull one-liner. I always have the problem that my Plex setup does not ‘understand’ baked-in subtitles, resulting in whacky subtitles and subtitles being out of sync.