How to hardcode subtitles with VLC media player
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 ก.ย. 2024
- a.k.a. Subtitles not showing up after hardcoding in VLC fix.
a.k.a. Subtitles showing up multiple times after hardcoding in VLC fix.
If you're watching this you've probably tried burning subtitles to your video and encountered multiple errors - either subtitles not showing or displaying multiple times.
I've tried just about everything to come up with this solution. Check it out :) - วิทยาศาสตร์และเทคโนโลยี
LMAO! he called it a hat I'm dead.
lurker HAHAHAHA
Same reaction xD
Same here :D
@@kareemkawaiah2112 In Australia we call them witch hats
They look like witch/wizard hats but their not, they are road cones 😂
i'm screaming bcs my video i'm trying to hardsub is friggin 3 hours.
uncheck Activate Transcoding in the last step.
@@abalkhi6540 you're a lifesaver
@@abalkhi6540 If I do that the subtitles don't stay on the file...
can help me to harcore subtitles?
took 1 minute for 3:49 long vid.
I'm sure it works well enough for short videos, but from my experience with this method, while it does add the subtitles, it desyncs the audio to an insane degree. The desync starts off as bearable, then gets progressively worse. By the end of a two hour video the audio for a gunshot, for example, comes multiple seconds before the trigger is ever pulled.
Edit: Selecting to keep the original audio while editing the profile the doesn't fix the problem, but it does make it slightly better.
Streaming it at all seems to be what desyncs the audio. In other words, it is the process itself that keeps causing problems.
After further reading I have discovered that this problem may only apply to mp4 files.
For those who get muted audio just check the box under profile > keep original audio
that should do the trick
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THANK YOU!!!
Thank you!
where's the profile? I cant find it
@@anissakinah2113 at step 2:21, click on Audio codec
+Magic Monk - The icon that VLC uses is a "traffic cone". You've probably seen them in the streets near construction sites or in No Parking zones. :)
In Aus we call them Witches hats
NAH DUDE.. its a HAT! :'D
It’s a candy corn on top of a miniature slice of American cheese
Or while eating a softy, he must have seen himself eating an upside-down hat.
doesnt work.. the string message doesn't show any T.140 to be deleted
same here
@@tchagosz same here
Same
@@xxhamedxx01 Probably 'cause "Overlay subtitles on video" is unchecked already (if not, uncheck it), so you don't have to delete that part, just move on, it will work.
protip: watch it on 1.75 speed
On the current VLC version, you don't have to do that last step where you delete part of the string, the new version has optimized this and it works wonders!! Thanks so much for such a clarifying video!
Still doesn't work. What do I do?
@@danielantony1882 scodec tl-140 rename as scodec=non, it works,
@@tnameer Nice.
"or a hat" :)))
Cheers mate, this video helped me, much appreciated!
Thanks but HAT?!?! IT'S A TRAFFIC CONE LMAO
Your method does work. Thank you for that.
But I'm trying to subtitle a .mp4 file that's around 3gb and my final subtitled file is only 891mb..and of significantly lesser video quality than the source file..
any suggestions..?
Worked perfectly, thank you very much. Doing this for my sister for her Christmas present (Christmas Eve right now). So I'm glad it's so incredibly easy to do with VLC! Thanks bro.
yup, from (2018) and it's chrismas here to preparing a video also.
This man has never seen and recognized a construction cone in his lengthy and experiential life.
They're called witches hats in Aus
You are a life saver, thank you so much!
no problem
YEW
Its a long wait for a movie streaming but anyhow thanks for the good work!
Um, the video just keeps turning out corrupted and unplayable. I keep following this video but it doesn't seem to work.
you need to close vlc and then wait (takes time according to file size that is being muxed AFTER closing vlc...)
@@alimeuniverse7615 omg sry I never saw any notifications ...
I always wait for the thumbnail to appear then I know the time has come but 3 hours is absurdly long... even for 2 hour videos I wait like 2-3 minutes...
*UPDATE*
VLC has made is easy now by going to the Media tab and selecting Covert. The process is similar where you browse and select the video file but now you get to add the subtitle file right away by selecting the *_Use a subtitle file_* checkbox. Next, select the *_Convert/Save_* button, and under Settings section of that window, click the edit tab with the tools icon > go to the Subtitles tab and check the *_Subtitle_* checkbox and the *_Overlay subtitles on the video_* checkbox. You're done! Let it convert, then reopen the video from your file destination.
This was a huge help! Thanks so much!
Real MVP
Thanks!!! This worked perfectly.
Thanks! now I'm waiting for the vlc to render the video. Its gonna take a while because of my potato pc. fingers crossed.
Hey There! Great tutorial, thank you! One question though, how could get the subtitles with a black background and not just the white text? Thank you!
THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!! I have tested so many apps and now I can do it just with VLC. Love U!
Thanks! Works like a charm every time. I keep coming back to your video.
I have a question. What do you do if you need to sync the subtitles before you hardcode? I have a Digital DVD video copy and its subtitle file, but the subtitles are slower that the video. I have to do Track Synchronization to hasten the subtitles by about 1-second to get it up to speed with the audio and video. How can I hardcode the subtitles after a Sync adjustment?
I love these guys that do tutorials that don't work
and don't respond to the critiques that youtubers leave.
I did everything but the subtitle doesnt appear. Can someone help me?
Nope, still not working. I'm going to beat my computer using the keyboard now. Bye
lol
Tried it, but it didn't work. What did I do wrong?
is the name of the subtitles file same as video that was being hardcoded? try putting the same names of the video but keep the different extentions
What he said not to worry about putting subtitle file info and left blank at 1:41 is the place where you should put (by browsing to choose) your .srt subtitle file. Then this works.
CS Cheong is right! It works for me now :) thanks!!!!
I'm adding subtitle to the movie that I downloaded and it's 2 hours so I have to wait like..... forever??? lol!
or wait 2 hours
It's not working ....Anyone please help me!!
There are many programs to hardcode subtitle to video and i tried maybe more than 10 and this way is the fastest and easiest way. I hardcoded a full movie(which is 124min 1080p video) in 14minutes. Thanks to magic monk
What an incredibly convoluted and inconvenient way to hardcode subtitles! It's like filming your screen to get a clip from a longer video. Or printing out some text and a picture, cutting and pasting them together and scanning it back in order to put graphics in your document. (Ok, maybe not _that_ bad, but it's similar)
If you have to burn in subtitles for a video of an hour, are you just going to wait 60 minutes for the "recording" to finish? What if for whatever reason the video stutters for a moment and that is captured too?
There's easy to use, *free*, dedicated software for this, you know? Just download Handbrake or VidCoder (basically Handbrake in an even more user friendly shell). In the latter all you need to do is:
1. Select your video file
2. Select your .srt subtitle file
3. Press the encode button
4. Done
It's easier, _significantly_ faster and more reliable and just... the proper way to do this.
Thank you so much. Wanted to burn subs in a movie. Didn't work the way it was shown in the video. Tried with Handbrake and worked very neatly!
My video was rotated by 90 degrees - any ideas on how to fix that
It's a traffic cone!
OMG shut up. Not everyone speaks American English. Australians call them witch hats.
Thats a traffic cone..... do you have a driving license?
Yep I just didn't know the word for it sorry
Just did it for Parasite. Subtitles weren't showing up on my Roku. This did the job, thumbs up. Thanks
LMAO im tryna do it for Parasite too
what about Mac?
mac sucks ass, like always
Same thing. Also, you can use Handbrake, which is an excellent transcoding utility only for Mac, or FFmpeg from the CLI.
on mac the "stream" option doesn't seem to be the same thing. it requires an http destination, and doesnt allow you to select file as the output type
Audio doesn't work on TV. How to fix this?
Video quality took a huge hit, framerates seem inconsistent... during movement it's skipping a lot when it did not before when it was an mkv file... any idea why?
Sorry, BUT, if you record the video with Subs turn on, VLC Gould recorded clip + subtitles, don' t you?
It actually works!! so glad I found your video
+nindy21 cheers. glad to hear it. You have no idea how many times I tried :)
I'm currently doing it on Schindler's List, but it's 3h15, so we'll see if it works
can we do it with mkv file please tell
My issue is a little different. I have a video that has soft subs (they can be turned on and off) but there's no separate .srt file. It's just part of the file itself. But I need to change the audio codec on the video so that my PS4 recognizes it. But whenever I do this, the subtitles are completely removed (it's an episode of Super Dragon Ball Heroes, which is in Japanese so I need the English subs for it). Is there any way to hardcode these subs without a separate .srt file?
cone
I cant say thank you enough thaaaaaaaaaaaaaanks man you're a life saver 🙌🙌
hello,
thank you for your video.
a question,
On "subtitles" window, where i need to choose T.140
you have 2 check marks.
when i'm clicking the "overlay..." my T.140 become gray... WHAT AM I DOING WRONG?
My VLC doesn't have a media dropdown menu :/
Howdy ! Annoying that the "obvious method" (as depicted from the menues) does not work, for example goes wrong if you do "Add" with the substrings in question ! Surprising, as the VLC seems to be the best universal Tool since many many years ! What does the VLC guys say about this ? Anyway, thanks for the great work !
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1. video format -> choose codec h.264
2. keep original audio
HELP!...Anyone know how to embed a subtitle that is not a separate SRT file?...Some of my vids have the subtitles already in the movie file (mkv files I think) and I have to check under 'Subtitle' if I want to play them while running in VLC...How do I embed those to play through my TV...Thanks in advance...
Brilliant. Worked as of Feb 2019.
This is a superb tutorial thank you! Maybe they've upgraded VLC somehow since you made this but I found that the scodec=t140 had already been removed by the time I got to that page. I continued without touching that code and the conversion worked beautifully. thanks again!
me too
tried several times and the i leave it as (scodec=non), final it works. thank you bro.
NOPE DIDN'T WORK
Those are traffic cones. Or just cones.
Or what you said because it funnier.
Thanks a million! So much better than fiddling with vdub and all that complex crap tha doesn't work.
Tries this thousand times and it still doesn't work... What am I missing? I click codec T140, but afterwards there isn't that string to be deleted....
I followed these steps and it still doesn't work.
lol what do you mean you followed these steps? that's like saying, I followed Jordan's steps for shooting but it still does not work. You need to practise..
That's not how programs work on computer lol. There is only one correct way of input. You show it correct or you don't.
So where do i insert my subtitle file?!!!!!
Wondering the same thing
ok I'm going crazy here!! this worked last time I subtitled a video.. now it's not working anymore!!
Didn't
I tried with VLC On Mac but different menu. I still don't know how to do that on VLC for mac
Same here. Did you find a solution for that?
it does not add the subtitle and slowing down a video
My video has two sub tracks. is it possible to remove one of them? When I hardcore those files, second sub track pops up too in a small font and idk what to do
Is it possible to make hardsub on ios device? Or using vlc on iphone? I couldn’t find via vlc on ipad
Thanks a lot...it's help my channel video a lot, especially I have a lot those Funny Thai TV commercial in my channel need to be translate & combine into English...
Well now i just have to wait like 2 hours :(
This worked for me last week but this time VLC crashed straight away. I'm converting the source file to a container that was in the output format list, as it was .mkv. Maybe it will work as an .mp4.
Thanks! I Will Use Hard Coded Subtitles For A Hitler Rant Parody Contest!
Excellent advice thankyou but what if you file has several different language subtitles embedded (muxed) in with the original video file and you only want to use one subtitle language?
What's with the "profile name"??? Yours has one. Mine is blank. It asks me to type something in and I don't know what to type in. If it needs a profile name how do I get one?
Finally worked! 😭
At first It didnt work just following the steps of the video.
The changes I did was that:
-At 1:32 I did add the subtitle file
-At 2:37 Not only have I deleted that "scodec=t140" line, but I have also ADDED everything else before that line, from "vcodec=h264...." to "...samplerate=44100"
And after doing that, it took more time to create the new video, but it finally worked.
Hope this helps someone else!
Sound WORKS.
Found why it wouldn't work before:
At the step where you have this command line:
:sout=#transcode{vcodec=h264,fps=25,scale=Automatique,height=300,acodec=mp3,ab=128,channels=2,samplerate=44100,scodec=t140,soverlay}:file{dst=C:\\Users\\bcuve\\Desktop\\1995-0226 Shivaratri Puja Sydney_FT_EnHc.mp4,no-overwrite} :sout-keep
just changed "acodec=mp3" by "acodec=mpga" just like in the video and it works.
Follow exactly what he did in the video. Worked for me!! Thanks!
Hardcoding was successful but I lost audio when I played the file in a TV through a USB stick! It's an mp4 file if it matters and the TV is Sony Bravia KDL46EX720 (2011 model), and when I play the version of the video without the hardcoded subs everything is great, but when I play the hardcoded version of the file the audio has been vanished! Any solutions?
It worked. But the output filed turned out bigger than original file. Orignal video file is .mkv file and size is 31 mb. But after hardcoding subtitle, the output file size is 133 mb. When hardcoding the subtilte, i chose H.264+MP3(mp4) option. Process was success and i can see the subtitle added but video size is too big. Why the size is not the same as orignal file?
my cpu goes to 100% usage. The pc is hard working. Is it normal?
How long does it take to merge the video plus SRT file? I can very successfully merge these files using the software HD Video Converter Factory but using 720p resolution takes roughly the running time of the video and 1080p resolution takes roughly double the running time. I download a lot of Korean dramas with 50 to 150 episodes from you tube and then download the SRT file from downsub.com. and merge them with HD Video Converter Factory. It takes a lot of time but does a good job of permanently embedding the sub title. The mp4 embedded video can be played on any TV that has a USB port.
I have to thank you for this video! I was going craxy since I have a Zorin 12 OS. I created an ASS subtitle file with Aegisub, then I embedded with HANDBRAKE which softsubs, then I used your method. It workef with ASS files also.
It worked well except for the resulting MP4 subbed file is twice as large as the original non subbed...Ummm...and it wouldn't work on MKVs or other formats. Also when you are removing the text for the Activate Transcoding, I left in the comma (,) and it worked perfectly...Thanks for this very informative video. I will like and subscribe.
it's work. very kind of you
Lol, as usual VLC's workflow is a nightmare of counter intuitive steps that you have to follow like a sweaty bomb technician avoiding traps and dead ends. I know it's free, but WTF was wrong with, oh, I dunno, "File--> Save As" followed by standard video compression options? Did the last 30 years of video software convention not happen on the planet they're from?
this is the message that i got... Can't play This file isn't playable. That might be because the file type is unsupported, the file extension is incorrect, or the file is corrupt. 0xc00d36c4
This method works a treat for me! I tried using ffmpeg, but the output file did not contain the subtitles... 😞and that's a shame because using the command line is *much* faster. Cheers, m8!
The hardcoding works but a 2 hour long movie is reduced to 54 minutes.... the speed is increased... the quality is also reduced.... but the subs are hardcoded.... can u help me out....
Hmm... I tried EXACTLY what you did about 4 times now, but the new file doesnt change into the thumbnail, the file is 0 bytes, and when I try to play it VLC opens but no video starts playing... :/
I tried every step exactly several times and each time where it's supposed to do the timer count as the video is supposed to be hard coding, the screen just has the orange cone, but no counting or playing bar color appearing. I have even let it sit and wait for over an hour and nothing happens, no new video appear. My files look exactly like yours. I have Windows 10 (latest) w/ i7 (latest), 16GB Ram, and NVidia card so plenty of power to process this easily. What else can I try? Thanks.
I wanted to hardcore Lord of the rings trilogy Extended. WELL
hmm.. lol
I've tried three times and the best result so far is that I get the word "WHISTLEING" AND THEN "SINGING" in the opening scene then nothing. Does it need a particular .srt file from a particular site. Don't know if there are some duff ones floating around.
this only fucking works if the movie already has the subtitles in it
Newer versions have already removed the line scodec line from the option screen.
What
It took so long to just stream a 3:35 video
!!! I WANT TO STREAM(Hardcode) A 1:35:00 Movie !!!
WTF !!
My .ass files subtitles are all separated...how do I add them all in one video?
Eddy, What version of VLC are you using? I'm using 2.2.4 and it doesn't look the same as yours thus I can't follow instructions! Please help!
it doesnt work if the video is not mp4 or avi?? :(
you can always convert your video online...
It didnt work with my VLC version 2.2.4, i can imagine that they may fixed this bug cause the layour of stream is different and even I tried to do a similar process but didnt work, any recomendations for the 2.2.4 version? thanx
It's not working for me. Maybe it's because "scodec=t140" doesn't show for me. Why not? I followed all your steps
2020. Doesn't work if you are not add subtitle manually in the beginning.
Also if you plan to hardsubs-bing karaoke effect, it will lag as hell..
Please help. After adding subtitles your way (really simple by the way-thanks!) there seems to be an issue with the sound (it is delayed). I watch te video on my TV, and I can't set the speed there... do you have any ideas? Thanks
Not practical at all!! For a 3h video for example.... Wouldnt recommend watching a video.
It worked, just as you said. HOWEVER!!! I didn't need to delete the source t1400 in the code. VLC 3.0.11
why is it when after I embed the English subtitle, it turns Chinese after it finished? it was a waste of time considering the movie was 2hrs to convert. I'm sure it was English cos I watched it first on VLC before converting. How can I fix this?
how about the video file's codec is "ts"? How can I put subtitle? 'Cause everytime I'm doing it VLC always crushes.
thanks! but can i do it with .sup subtitles? because i have 3d movie.
need an updated version of 2021 VLC. if you click overlay now, the subtitle choices are greyed out.
also the video codec and audio codec, can i tick the original video and sound without reencoding?