extract subs from MKV -- MKVextract doesn't work

[AlanHK]

I've got an MKV that when played in VLC shows subs (soft, not hard).

But MKVextractGUI doesn't see any -- it doesn't see any streams at all.


Are there any other ways to get subs out of an MKV?

Here's the Mediainfo, it shows there is a text sub:

General
Format                           : Matroska
File size                        : 649 MiB
Duration                         : 1h 43mn
Overall bit rate                 : 880 Kbps
Encoded date                     : UTC 2011-12-03 18:07:11
Writing application              : mkvmerge v4.0.0 ('The Stars were mine') built on Jun  6 2010 16:18:42
Writing library                  : libebml v1.0.0 + libmatroska v1.0.0

Video
ID                               : 1
Format                           : AVC
Format/Info                      : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile                   : High@L4.0
Format settings, CABAC           : Yes
Format settings, ReFrames        : 8 frames
Muxing mode                      : Container profile=Unknown@4.0
Codec ID                         : V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC
Duration                         : 1h 43mn
Nominal bit rate                 : 842 Kbps
Width                            : 1 280 pixels
Height                           : 534 pixels
Display aspect ratio             : 2.35:1
Frame rate                       : 23.976 fps
Color space                      : YUV
Chroma subsampling               : 4:2:0
Bit depth                        : 8 bits
Scan type                        : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame)               : 0.051
Writing library                  : x264 core 116 r2057 0ba8a9c
Encoding settings                : cabac=1 / ref=8 / deblock=1:-1:-1 / analyse=0x3:0x133 / me=umh / subme=9 / psy=1 / psy_rd=1.00:0.00 / mixed_ref=1 / me_range=24 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=2 / 8x8dct=1 / cqm=0 / deadzone=21,11 / fast_pskip=1 / chroma_qp_offset=-2 / threads=36 / sliced_threads=0 / nr=0 / decimate=1 / interlaced=0 / bluray_compat=0 / constrained_intra=0 / bframes=3 / b_pyramid=2 / b_adapt=2 / b_bias=0 / direct=3 / weightb=1 / open_gop=0 / weightp=2 / keyint=250 / keyint_min=23 / scenecut=40 / intra_refresh=0 / rc_lookahead=60 / rc=2pass / mbtree=1 / bitrate=842 / ratetol=1.0 / qcomp=0.60 / qpmin=10 / qpmax=51 / qpstep=4 / cplxblur=20.0 / qblur=0.5 / ip_ratio=1.40 / aq=1:1.00

Audio
ID                               : 2
Format                           : AAC
Format/Info                      : Advanced Audio Codec
Format version                   : Version 4
Format profile                   : LC
Format settings, SBR             : Yes
Format settings, PS              : No
Codec ID                         : A_AAC
Duration                         : 1h 43mn
Channel(s)                       : 2 channels
Channel positions                : Front: L R
Sampling rate                    : 48.0 KHz

Text
ID                               : 3
Format                           : UTF-8
Codec ID                         : S_TEXT/UTF8
Codec ID/Info                    : UTF-8 Plain Text

[poisondeathray]

Sometimes the original mkvextract "sticks" . Try loading video a few times, and it will eventually see the subs

or you can try mkvextractgui-2

[johns0]

Try mkvcleaver.

[AlanHK]

Solved it: used the command line mkvextract.

mkvextract tracks "video.mkv"  -c ISO8859-1 3:video.srt

So it's just the GUI that has the problem.

[AlanHK]

Sometimes the original mkvextract "sticks" . Try loading video a few times, and it will eventually see the subs

or you can try mkvextractgui-2

mkvextractgui-2 works too
The original MKVExtractGUI hasn't been updated since 2007.

Thanks.