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Thread ID: 148096	2019-07-22 22:26:00	Add .srt subtitles to .mp4 video using FFMPEG	kioti (17360)	Press F1

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1462598	2019-07-22 22:26:00	Hi. Ok I have an assortment of converters but none will add a subtitle to a video without the process taking from 20 minutes to 2 hours. That is adding the subtitle to an.mp4 video file. They all make a new .mp4 video with the subtitle added to it. I got a new app yesterday and it will do the job in 20 minutes but the subtitle is hard coded! Dammit! There was no mention in the Sales add or tutorials about subs being hard coded. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr… AND the output file is double the size of the input file...…. 1 GB becomes 2GB and 2.4GB becomes 4.8GB...for an .mp4 that's a whopping size. The best and fasted app I have is MKVToolNix, it creates a new video and adds the sub in about 15-20 seconds however, the video file is MKV and MKV is not a recognized format of the TV of the person I am doing the work for. If I make the MKV with Sub added the Converter apps I have will convert the MKV+sub to .mp4 but do not produce a file with the sub added. There are no options to add the sub before doing the conversion to .mp4. There is a way to add the subs using Command Prompt, Command line and I am not to familiar with using CMD. I googled how to do its and am lost. The beauty is that the sub is added in a few seconds. Just what I need. Anyone able to give me the Command prompt line I need to enter to do the job? Here is a link to a guy showing how its done, a bit hard to understand his Indian-English and for the life of me I do not know what he is entering in the Command window to point to the location of the video and the sub title. If I enter G (which is where the video and sub are stored on an external HDD then) I get informed G is not a recognised...… do the files have to be in the C Drive? Where it first opens and he types in cd\ I thinking he has the files on a CD, but I learned that cd\ means Change Directory :D And the Sub isn't hard coded as is displayed in the 2nd link, though the second vid is a bit tiki-tour explanation. Any help greatly appreciated. www.youtube.com www.youtube.com	kioti (17360)
1462599	2019-07-23 01:27:00	When referencing a 'drive' you use the convention DRIVE LETTER + ":" e.g. C: = 'C drive', G: = 'G drive" the backslash "" by itself means the root of that drive (so C:\ = root of C: drive). CD = Change Directory (as you figured out), so "CD C:\Temp" would change your location to the "Temp" folder on "C:" drive - clear as mud? Just to be more confusing - if your folder name has spaces you need to put that name in quotes (e.g. CD C:"My Test Folder") So to reference your G drive try using G:	ManUFan (7602)
1462600	2019-07-23 02:59:00	When I am playing a video which is not in English I just download the English sub-titles then using VLC which is playing the video I right-click on the VLC interface choose sub-titles and navigate to the .srt I just downloaded, this then gives you sub-titles in the video playing.	zqwerty (97)
1462601	2019-07-23 04:08:00	When I am playing a video which is not in English I just download the English sub-titles then using VLC which is playing the video I right-click on the VLC interface choose sub-titles and navigate to the .srt I just downloaded, this then gives you sub-titles in the video playing. zqwerty hi. Yeah I do the same. Have the video and .srt in the same folder, play the vid in VLC, right click screen, go to Subtitle in the drop down box and Add sub, navigate to it and click it and its visible on screen. But the movies the woman has are DVD's and I have ripped to .mp4. The movies only have English subtitles and they are not included in the ripped file from the DVD. I can extract the 'image' sub from the DVD and convert it to .srt or .ssa etc but is easier to download them She wants Spanish so I got the Spanish subs from Subscene. To add the subs to the ripped movies I used MKVtoolNix and put onto USB Drive for her but her tele no plays MKV format. So I am now doing the long way adding the sub to the .mp4 video file using the new app Wondershare Video Converter Ultimate and it is making hard coded subs. Fine for her but be nice to be able to not have a distracting sub for an English language viewer :D Another app I have DVDFab9 won't add a subtitle to the video. I haven't tried Handbrake. Apart from being able to add the sub as hard coded the only other option I have is to use ConvertX2DVD7 app and remake a proper DVD Video_TS from it with the sub added and burn to DVD5 Media Disc. Very time consuming, about 2 hours to create a 4.5GB DVD Folder containing all Vobs/IFO and BUP files, from a video file. That is why I was asking about using the FFMPEG method to add the sub to the .mp4 vids. Thanks.	kioti (17360)
1462602	2019-07-23 04:45:00	When referencing a 'drive' you use the convention DRIVE LETTER + ":" e.g. C: = 'C drive', G: = 'G drive" the backslash "" by itself means the root of that drive (so C: \ = root of C: drive). CD = Change Directory (as you figured out), so "CD C: \Temp" would change your location to the "Temp" folder on " C: " drive - clear as mud? Just to be more confusing - if your folder name has spaces you need to put that name in quotes ( e.g. CD C: "My Test Folder") So to reference your G drive try using G: ManUFan….. hi. Cheers. I will give it another go. Last time I did it at step 3 in the video I sent link about, where he gets to the 3rd step its brickwall time because when I use "test video" its not recognized as internal or external command and its the same result if I just use test video. I have a folder named test video in the G Drive and CMD is refusing to accept any command line to get me to the folder continging the video and subtile files. Here's a pic	kioti (17360)
1462603	2019-07-23 05:23:00	I have a folder named test video in the G Drive and CMD is refusing to accept any command line to get me to the folder continging the video and subtile files. Here's a pic When you change to the G drive, type cd test video That will change you to that folder, once in test Video, if you want to see its contents type dir Example ( my drive is S) 9831 Remember when doing command prompt you have to tell it exactly what you want it to do, its not like click and pray ;) By simply typing Test Video The computer is basically saying there is no such command so what do you want me to do about it :p where as cd = Change directory	wainuitech (129)
1462604	2019-07-23 08:43:00	wainuitech hi . That helped a lot. But unfortunately at the end I am told 'ffmeg' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. Drat! It was looking good up to the point I hit the Enter key :D Maybe ffmpeg is not installed to my W10 x64 v1903 system(?) Here's a pic of the steps in CMD Prompt....:annoyed: :( Close but no cigar :devil	kioti (17360)
1462605	2019-07-23 08:57:00	Ahhhh dear...… I will try this to instal ffmpeg :D www.youtube.com then I will give the mp4+sub el rapido another shot in CMD :D Above link from this link to many options and warnings about ffmpeg www.bing.com	kioti (17360)
1462606	2019-07-23 09:03:00	You may need to add the location (path) to ffmpeg to your "Environment Variables" in System. Control Panel----->System----->Advanced System Settings----->Environment Variables 1) Under User variables for %username% click New 2) Variable name = ffmpeg 3) Browse Directory----->Browse to the directory where the ffmpeg.exe resides 4) Click Ok 3 times----1st Ok once you've selected the folder path, 2nd ok in the Environment Variables box, 3rd Ok in System Properties. 5) Reboot your machine to ensure the variables are loaded correctly 6) Try to add your SRT to the video. Hope that helps.	chiefnz (545)
1462607	2019-07-23 10:12:00	:D Well I installed ffmpeg, checked it was seen in CMD, then I directed Command line to go to the test video folder, it was found and details shown, then I entered the command line with the video title and subtitle info and it did it but failed to produce a suitable output format. :D I did the entire check ffmpeg is visible a CMD and when it was I then continued to add the other command lines to find the test video folder and then entered te command s to get to the stage of entering the command line to do the combining vid and sub. :D Failed. The two pics show the first part of seeing if ffmeg is visible in CMD and the 2nd pic shows the entire process up to the cannot create an output format :D Sighh ………...……………...	kioti (17360)
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