Any tool to remove soft subs?

[Djard]

One of my favorite apps is Avidemux, and I'm hoping it can remove subtitles that are not hard-subbed.

I have a movie with English subs and can remove them with ConvertXtoDVD, but then I must convert to DVD and degrade the picture quality. If Avidemux cannot remove non-embedded subs, can someone recommend an another app that can do the job without recoding?

[Endoro]

Please have a look at the link in my signature.

[johns0]

Use mkvmerge to mux the file to mkv and uncheck the subtitle before muxing.

[Djard]

I'll have to study the scripting as I've done so little of it. Great teacher though!

The movie with the unwanted (non-embedded) subs is in an AVI container format. Wouldn't the mkvmerge option require extra recoding and therefore loss of picture quality? Forgive me if the question is parochial. The more I learn, the more I realize I know so little about video editing.

[manono]

Wouldn't the mkvmerge option require extra recoding and therefore loss of picture quality?

No, you can put about anything into an MKV.

[netmask56]

MKV is a container so when you use MKVmergeGui it simply "wraps" the avi in a mkv container - so you have full access to the video, audio, subs, chapters and global tags etc. Using gMKVExtract or similar you could extract individual streams if needed. Simply unticking subs will do it for your needs as Johns0 suggested. MKVMergeGui will then save the new file as "whatever the original name is followed by a (1)" Should take 2 or 3 minutes or even less depending on the file size.

[Endoro]

If you need AVI look at Avimuxgui.

[Djard]

Thanks. I'll add those tools to my arsenal. I think I now have about 100 apps to do stuff with video, but I suspect I'll need another hundred before long. All this time learning to use new tools may cost me my marriage.

[Djard]

That did it!

I had to wait until a couple of neurons in the right hemisphere of my brain began to fire before realizing I needed to change the file extension from "h.264" back to the original in order to play the movie, following the extraction that excluded the subtitles.

Thanks again.

[Cornucopia]

If they're "soft subs", why even REMOVE them? - Just turn them off.

Scott