3 years, 3 months ago
I have a x264 .mkv file that has subtitles. I need to export a selection of it to a TIFF sequence no subtitles
I am running a Mac and have VisualHub, Perian, Quicktime Pro and VLC at my disposal to use. I can't find a way to play the file in Quicktime Pro with subtitles off, my View > Subtitles > Off button is greyed out.
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A roundabout way of doing it would to simply split the mkv's contents into separate files, so you'd have a video file, and a subtitle file, which you could simply move to a different folder/delete. You then go about the normal approach of exporting the selection of the video to a tiff sequence, and it won't have subtitles on it since it's no longer an mkv.
iMkvExtract will extract the contents of an mkv for you.
http://mkv4mac.free.fr/index.php?p=log#imk
iMkvExtract will extract the contents of an mkv for you.
http://mkv4mac.free.fr/index.php?p=log#imk
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You know, are you sure that the video has subtitles in the first place? If QT is telling you that it can't turn them off, then they might just be hard-coded into the video.
Also what files do you get from extracting the mkv? A bunch of them? The video itself should be an avi or something easily openable.
The file that iMkvExtract creates will not open in Quicktime nor can it be converted using VisualHub.
Edit: Now that I think about it, couldn't you just use MKVtoolsnix to mux the XXX.h264 video with the XXX.aac sound, without the subtitles into a new mkv.
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/16837
Probably no need for the use of MP4box then, man that took a while to write.
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Gah, well then what you could do is mux the two files you get, using MP4Box, only problem is that it's a command line only program on the Mac (Windows has a GUI front end for it). GPAC contains MP4box
http://mac.softpedia.com/get/Developer-Tools/GPAC.shtml
(The command line is located in /Applications/Utilities/Terminal)
Once installed, you should cd to the directory where the files are (that is to say, from the command line, type in 'cd /locationofyourfiles' without quotes) the command to created the mp4 should just be
MP4Box -add video.h264 done.mp4
You just replace video.h264, with whatever the video from imkvextract is called. That'll create a silent mp4, you then do
MP4Box -add audio.aac done.mp4
Which will add the audio to the mp4 file, and THAT should give you a normal Mp4, that you can open in QT, and export at a TIFF sequence without any subtitles.
Full documentation on MP4Box
http://gpac.sourceforge.net/packager.php
http://gpac.sourceforge.net/doc_mp4box.php
Man I wish someone else finds a better way for you to do this :/
They are on a subtitle track, I can turn them on & off in VLC player. The MKV extraction gives me .aac audio file that plays in QuickTime Player and a .h264 (yes, that's the extension) that does not play in QuickTime Player. It plays in VLC player but studders. I chose not to extract the two subtitle tracks out of iMkvExtract.