MKV subtitle solution

Hi,

MediaCoder 7.2 has come a long way, a great tool at a great price, and the program feature set is second to none.

Please solve the subtitle rendering issue when trans-coding MKV files containing embedded subtitle tracks. It is not possible (i think) to disable or select a sub track from the source file.

Thank you.

I found a way to work around this using a MEncoder config file.

See the details here http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1.html

Apparently you can send a command to MEncoder that will add a time delay, or render a track that does not exist. Effectively disabling the sub titles.

I liked the track selection option... here is how you do it.

Create a text file named "mencoder.conf" and place it in your "C:\Program Files\MediaCoder-0.7.2.4522\codecs\mplayer" folder.

Edit the mencoder.conf file and add this line "sid=31" to select sub title track 31 (which hopefully does not exist in your MKV video)

Alternately you can delay the subtitle rendering with "subdelay=9000" which will delay the subs for 9000 seconds... the idea being the delay is longer than the video.

Each method is working for me, however I think the SID=31 is a bit more elegant.

It would be nice if mediacoder could manage these commands for us.

Thanks to the MC team for all the hard work.

Thanks for the solution. I made a copy of your post for "Advanced". (-admin)

Your solution might work fine but it's a lot of legwork if you sometimes encode things you actually do want to keep subtitles with. Here's a post I just made in another thread, if you figure out which one of my "fixes", "fixed" the problem, it's a much quicker way of disabling subtitles:

Hi, was having this problem earlier, transcoding an MKV to a lower-res "barebones" AVI file for my lower-powered laptop to run. Anyway, I remembered reading about a workaround, but I'm not sure exactly what the fix was, so I just threw all my ideas at it. I basically just tried to confuse the subtitle rendering so badly it wouldn't have any idea what to do and just **** off... here are the settings I used to "fix" the bug:

Mode: Render
ID: -1 (Impossible AFAIK)
Scale: minimum
Position: minimum
Outline: minimum
Blur: maximum (maximum blur with no outline = invisible maybe?)
Language: zh (only "en"glish subtitles were in the file)
Encoding: Unicode

The above completely eliminated subtitle rendering for me. Another fix I remember was to go into the advanced settings and setting the subtitle delay really high, but I tried this just a few minutes ago and it didn't seem to help.

Hope this helps!