Extract embedded subtitles

97 votes

I think it would be nice to extract subtitles are embedded as I find that some of my streaming solutions react better to a seperate file than an embedded sub.

Done Suggested by: StevieTV (24 Apr, '20) • Upvoted: 29 Feb • Comments: 14

Comments: 14

18 Aug, '20
Triple_RRR
2nd this. Some clients can only direct play if the subs are external. If bazarr could be an all-in-one solution that would be amazing!
Perhaps ffmpeg could be integrated for a simple way to do this?
02 Dec, '20
Anahi
Yes please! I used to only use SubZero for my subtitles, together with Kitana (to get access to the GUI). Bazarr offers everything that SubZero offers and more, except for the extraction of the embedded subtitles. Because of this reason, I still have SubZero and Kitana running, to be able to extract the subtitles. If Bazarr will offer this functionality, it will be the absolute all in one solution for automatic subtitles.
13 May, '21
Mpas Merged
Extract existing srt (if choosen language is available) from video file. https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/ExtractSubtitles
Have existing bazarr processing and postprocessing options enabled to remove or add colors, tags etc.
Have option to 'delete the extracted srt' captured from videofile; can also be done via ffmpeg
03 Jun, '21
broodlum
To add to this, it would of course also be great if the same post-processing was applied to extracted subs as well (except for sync which wouldn't be necessary).
04 Jun, '21
broodlum Merged
Duplicate of https://bazarr.featureupvote.com/suggestions/90231/extract-embedded-subtitles
04 Jun, '21
Topper Admin
"extract srt files from video file" (suggested by Mpas on 2021-05-13), including upvotes (2) and comments (1), was merged into this suggestion.
13 Aug, '21
Jose S
I have a bash task which can do this if you want it. It will can re-add subtitles too. It was designed with the idea that plex only natively supports SubRip subtitles, so it explicitly removes all other subtitles, but with a configuration change, it could just remove all subtitles.

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/TeamJoe/MinecraftStuff/main/servers/DaveyJonesLocker/home/compression/plex-encoding.sh

You can run this script in remove subtitles mode with the following command. It requires ffmpeg to be installed.

bash plex-encoding.sh 'START' --audio 'copy' --ext '.mkv' --input '/home/public/Videos' --log --output '' --subtitle '' --subtitle-export-extension '' --subtitle-update 'export' --thread '1' --tmp '/home/public/tmp' --video 'copy'
25 Dec, '21
Topper
Implemented in dev branch by Vitiko. Should be in master before new year.
23 Apr, '22
sunsailor
Hey, this never made master ? I can't find the option...
24 Apr, '22
Topper Admin
@sunsailor should be there in the upcoming days.
19 Jun, '22
gnownairb
Did this get merged and pushed? I can't find any options for it on the latest version
19 Jun, '22
morpheus65535 Admin
@gnownairb yes for a while. It's a provider.
29 Feb
semper.plus.ultra
Could someone please confirm if there have been any recent changes to the OCR (Optical Character Recognition) capability for extracting subtitles?

We appreciate your prompt response.
29 Feb
morpheus65535 Admin
@semper.plus.ultra nothing changed: no plan to introduce OCR.