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Imperial Zeppelin
25th November 2025, 21:08
Learned Colleagues: In my flimsy defense, once DL DVDs & BDs were available and relatively inexpensive, I lost my video magic chops garnered with DVD Rebuilder and BD Rebuilder, God Bless you Jdobbs. Now I'm thrown back into the fray, trying to convert my BDs into a format that my Samsung TV can play from a USB SSD plugged into my router.

As you can probably surmise, the embedded alien subtitles that Mr. Lucas et al. have peppered the Star War movies with is driving my nuts.

Right now I'm dueling with Return of the Jedi and I've got the proper subtitles in my MKV file which works great with any player like VLC that lets you enable subtitles. However, the player built into the Samsung can play MKV, but doesn't allow subtitle selection.

Yeah, that was a long intro...

Simple Question: How do I convert my working MKV to a format like MOV or MP4 that will actually have the subtitles embedded without having to specify it. Right now, MOVAVI isn't able to do it.

Thanks,
IZ

Jamaika
25th November 2025, 21:32
What type of MKV subtitles are you referring to? SRT or ASS.
If SRT is used, it's supposedly a simple conversion to ttxt MOV. But if there are multiple SRT subtitles with added language descriptions, it isn't that simple and can cause problems.
Forget about ASS functions and fonts.

Imperial Zeppelin
26th November 2025, 13:55
What type of MKV subtitles are you referring to? SRT or ASS.
If SRT is used, it's supposedly a simple conversion to ttxt MOV. But if there are multiple SRT subtitles with added language descriptions, it isn't that simple and can cause problems.
Forget about ASS functions and fonts.

Thanks for the response, but no longer an issue.

I finally figured out how to manage through it by just choosing on of the 2 subtitle files for the MKV to MOV conversion that mysteriously appeared when I only asked for a single file to be encoded in the original BD-Rebuilder movie creation.

I still get the bizarre subtitles like LUCAS showing up as a SUPERTITLE up in the opening, but I'm satisfied with what is going on.