Hey, I've seen a few things online in forum posts, but nothing really specific as far as tutorials, or something consistent as far as what people use for creating subtitle files for their blu ray rips. I'm in the process of ripping my blu ray collection for my plex server, and I'm using makemkv for ripping and handbrake for encoding. The problem is my foreign films after encoding I can't use the subtitles any longer I know because handbrake is stripping them from the encode if I don't mess with any options. Any recommendations on what to use for subtitles. I read that I can use mkvtoolsnix but I don't really understand what to do. I'm guessing rip the subtitles out with that, but what about making them an SRT file so I can upload them on plex? 

Edited February 1, 20233 yr by MedicalDetective05

MKVCleaver and subtitle edit is what I found out to use for anyone that stumbles across this, and is having trouble figuring out what to use. There are other options out there, but these are the two that worked for me. 

I ran into the same problem.  Next time you convert using Handbrake specify the language you want.  This seemed to work for me although I haven't converted a lot of files.  Since I have lots of disk space I just kept the original raw files as they are and Plex plays them just fine.  I only convert when I want to take a movie with me on my tablet.

 

On 2/9/2023 at 9:41 PM, TimTheSettler said:

I ran into the same problem.  Next time you convert using Handbrake specify the language you want.  This seemed to work for me although I haven't converted a lot of files.  Since I have lots of disk space I just kept the original raw files as they are and Plex plays them just fine.  I only convert when I want to take a movie with me on my tablet.

 

Hey thanks for this I'll try it out! Raw files are just so huge, wouldn't mind keeping them like that but that's a lot of space to take up. I guess if you have the room that is just fine.