There are many media players out there, but this one has a useful feature where a video file containing a forced subtitle will automatically display that subtitle. Kodi is a very popular media player, which used to be called XBMC. For example, if you watch a movie in English but suddenly a character starts speaking German. Forced subtitlesįorced subtitles are subtitles that appear in a movie when a language is being spoken that is not the same as the audio language. Mkvmerge is a tool that allows you to extract, merge and update media tracks within an MKV file. There are lots of media containers available but MKV is a popular one, and this articles only deals with MKV files. An MKV file can contain tracks of audio, video, subtitles and other information like chapter markers.

MKV is a media container created by Matroska. Here are a few definitions to help you read this article. And also how to merge separate subtitles into a media file, thereby turning them into soft subtitles. In this article I will be showing you how to extract soft subtitles into a separate file, for editing. The subtitles are in a separate file - these can be turned on/off, removed or modified The subtitles are in the media file as a separate track - these can be turned on/off, removed or modified The subtitles are burned onto the actual video frames - these cannot be modified or removed

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