How do I add a subtitle to a video file so it shows up in mediainfo?

[caca]

I see that some subtitles are contained within the video file itself and you can see the text info in mediainfo.

How do I add a subtitle to a video file so that it shows up in mediainfo?

[LowOrbit]

You'll have to encode/re-encode the video, i.e. softcode or hardcode (burn-in) the subs.

bob5695 will explain it better if he sees this thread.

[caca]

You'll have to encode/re-encode the video, i.e. softcode or hardcode (burn-in) the subs.

bob5695 will explain it better if he sees this thread.

does that make the quality worse? even a little bit?

[᠎]

It would make it worse.

But that is irrelevant because it's the wrong answer. Hardcoded subs don't show up in mediainfo, only softcoded subs can do that.

What container is your source video in? eg. .mkv, .mp4, .avi, ...

What container is your source subtitle in? eg. .srt, .sub, ...

[caca]

my video is .mkv and the subtitle is .srt

but if it makes it worse, then i'll just rename the subtitle to the name of the video and call it a day

[᠎]

Doing what LowOrbit told you to do would make it worse.

Doing it properly won't affect the quality at all.

Download and extract ffmpeg, then from the command line enter:

ffmpeg -i movie.mkv -i subtitles.srt -map 0 -map 1 -codec copy output.mkv

It will take a minute or so and you're done.

[dolly_cat]

Use ffmpeg.

[Q91]

Use tools that "muxes" the files. You dont need to re-encode a movie just to add subtitles, unless you want to hardcode them, but then they wouldn't show in mediainfo anyways...

I dont know muich about ffmpeg but there should be other tools that can mux/demux video files with easy (and with a GUI).

[caca]

Doing what LowOrbit told you to do would make it worse.

Doing it properly won't affect the quality at all.

Download and extract ffmpeg, then from the command line enter:

ffmpeg -i movie.mkv -i subtitles.srt -map 0 -map 1 -codec copy output.mkv

It will take a minute or so and you're done.

cool, thanks

[bob5695]

if you prefer clicking to typing, drop both the mkv file and the srt file onto mkvmerge and remux. easy as pie.