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Use mkvextract to extract subtitles from a directory of MKV files into SRT files
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mkv-extract-subtitles.sh
# Subtitle track number is usually the same for a whole series and usually for all encodes from a specific place
# Use this first to ascertain the track number
# find . -iname '*.mkv' -maxdepth 1 -exec sh -c "ffprobe -hide_banner -i '{}' 2>&1 | grep Subtitle | cut -d':' -f2 | cut -d'(' -f1 " \;
find . -iname '*.mkv' -maxdepth 1 -exec basename {} .mkv \; | xargs -I {} mkvextract tracks '{}.mkv' ${SUBTITLE_TRACK_NUMBER}:'{}.srt'
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