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CBN
30th June 2005, 17:36
Umm, I'm trying to extract soft-subtitles from an MKV file. I'm loading it to VirtualDubMod, but then I get an error message;

MKV: Subtitle stream (3) contains overlapping subtitles. Some of them may not be kept when editing.

Afterwards, when I try to demux the subtitles stream, I can only save it as SRT, and the subtitles file is originally an ASS, and that causes a problem; there are the color/command lines mixed up with the translation itself in the SRT, and when I open the SRT in Subtitle Workshop, well, as I said, it's all messed up, it doesn't display the file correctly. I tried to re-save it as ASS, but that didn't work.

Why am I getting this error message? What can I use to correctly extract the subtitles file (as in, that it will extract to ASS, not SRT or anything else)?

Thanks...

CBN
30th June 2005, 19:51
Well, never mind, thanks anyway. I asked the same question at #matroska@irc.corecodec.com, and the answer I got was to use MKVextract (with MKVextractGUI), which, well, worked. So, thanks anyway! :)