Hardsub to .mkv

[MKVCrazy]

Hi, folks. I need some help. I'm having problems when I use the original subtitles with mkv. The subtitle's font is way too small and has a white color which doesn't look so good when playing the movie.

The subtitles is ripped by someone where I got it from. It's in .srt format and I heard people saying that I need to convert that to .ass format in order to hardsub it with the .mkv file and the subtitles will appear on the picture (screenshoted) if you snapshot it while the subtitles appear on the screen.

How I add to this sub to mkv is just mux them together with MKVToolnix but it can easily disabled when you play the file but some people's aren't able to disable easily (hardsubbed).

Oh btw, I want to edit the subtitles too if possible. I mean change the fonts and the sizes to make it bigger or look nicer than just plain white texts.

Can someone give me a guide or explain them here?

Thank you very much in advance.

MKVCrazy

[Taktaal]

The SRT file can be edited with a text editor like Notepad. The format is pretty obvious, just stick to modifying the text and don't change the whitespace and you'll be fine.

The problem here is however that there's no way to switch off hardcoded subtitles since they're combined with the movie and actually overwriting the pixels where the movie should be. The only way to remove the subtitles is to reencode the movie from the original source a second time.

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The problem here is however that there's no way to switch off hardcoded subtitles since they're combined with the movie and actually overwriting the pixels where the movie should be. The only way to remove the subtitles is to reencode the movie from the original source a second time.

That's not true. In Zoomplayer, right click in the movie, look for the text stream and uncheck it.
The just find an .srt file for your .mkv, rename it, put it in the same dir and play them with zoomplayer. If they are out of sync, you can change anything basically with Aegisub and save them as .ass.

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