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Extract Subtitles from mkv
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#!/bin/bash | |
# Extract subtitles from each MKV file in the given directory | |
# If no directory is given, work in local dir | |
if [ "$1" = "" ]; then | |
DIR="." | |
else | |
DIR="$1" | |
fi | |
# Get all the MKV files in this dir and its subdirs | |
find "$DIR" -type f -name '*.mkv' | while read filename | |
do | |
# Find out which tracks contain the subtitles | |
mkvmerge -J $filename | jq -r ' | |
.tracks | | |
map((.id | tostring) + " " + .properties.language + .properties.track_name + " " + .codec) | | |
join("\n")' | grep 'SubRip' | while read subline | |
do | |
# Grep the number of the subtitle track | |
tracknumber=`echo $subline | cut -d' ' -f1` | |
language=`echo $subline | cut -d' ' -f2` | |
# Get base name for subtitle | |
subtitlename="${filename%.*}_$language" | |
# add language check if you like e.g.: | |
# if [ "$language" == "ger" ] || [ "$language" == "chiSimplified" ]; then | |
`mkvextract tracks "$filename" $tracknumber:"$subtitlename.srt" > /dev/null 2>&1` | |
`chmod g+rw "$subtitlename.srt"` | |
done | |
done |
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Line 15 should be
mkvmerge -J "$filename"
, so paths with spaces still work (mkvmerge cant handle them)