Conversion to MKV no Subtitles ....

[nyplayer 90]

I was testing the converting of a recording and found out that there appears to be no CC after conversion.... Is this a known issue ? ... Watching on FireTV and Android.

 

Edit ...

Played on VLC no subtitles are being copied over.

 

 

 

 

Edited June 18, 2021 by nyplayer

[Luke 42085]

Hi there, yes subtitles are supported when converting. Let's look at an example:

Thanks.

[nyplayer 90]

I converted several recordings from TS to MKV and their are no subtitles in the MKV converted file ... I used the TV Profile. What more can I report you can easily test this and you will see no subtitles in the MKV file.

[nyplayer 90]

ffmpeg-transcode-493807ca-3b98-43e4-a929-5232737e7797_1.txt

[Carlo 4561]

24 minutes ago, nyplayer said:

I converted several recordings from TS to MKV and their are no subtitles in the MKV converted file ... I used the TV Profile. What more can I report you can easily test this and you will see no subtitles in the MKV file.

Are these actual subtitles or Closed Captions like from US TV recordings?

[nyplayer 90]

Closed Captions. 

[Carlo 4561]

Closed captions are different then subtitles and are embedded in the video (line 21) and don't stand up to conversions of the video.
You could use a program such as mcebuddy which I believe can extract the closed captions and rewrite them as srt files.

[rbjtech 5284]

Pretty sure the free eac3to does transport stream CC's as well :-

eac3to input.ts -demux

 

[nyplayer 90]

Ok I will create a postscript using CCEEXTRACTOR then FMMPEG  to Remux to MKV and not use the EMBY built in conversion. VLC has no Problem playing CC in MKV.

Edited June 18, 2021 by nyplayer

[Carlo 4561]

CCEXTRACTOR will do the job.

[nyplayer 90]

I created a batch job that uses CCEXTRACTOR to create the srt then use  FMMPEG to remux to MKV inserting the srt file in the MKV.

 

CD /d "%~dp0"
MOVE "%~f1" "%~dp1"
if %ERRORLEVEL% NEQ 0 exit
set filein="%~f1"
if "%~x1" EQU ".ts" set fileout=%filein:.ts=.mkv%
if "%~x1" EQU ".ts" set sortout=%filein:.ts=.srt%
set ext=%~x1
DEL %fileout%
ccextractorwinfull.exe "%~f1"
ffmpeg -i %filein% -i %sortout% -c copy %fileout%
SET FFMPEG=%ERRORLEVEL%
IF %FFMPEG% EQU 0 DEL %filein%
exit