Getting rid of multiple audio tracks, etc.

[Ethaliano]

Hello everybody!

First of all, I sadly have to admit that I my Tech Level is "User". I know how to use google, but most of the results I found were either not what I wanted or too complicated for me use...^^

What I have:
A .mkv file with multiple audio tracks and subtitles.

What I want:
A .mkv with only one audio track and one subtitle option. And I want the file to play both of them when its started.

What I don't want:
- A tool that needs me creating a new file. I just want to edit the already existing one.
- A tool that needs me to change the format of the file. Somebody way better at this than me already got it into quite the good format, I don't want to mess with that ...^^
- Something that needs 5 guides to read through to use it. If there are screenshots and a detailed guide on what I need to press, I can do it. But more complicated stuff is beyond me. Sorry for my incompetence :/

I really hope that you can help me out on this.
Thanks in advance for any advice given

Greetings

[videobruger]

What you want is impossible.

You can not remove audio/subtitles from a video without creating a new file.

You can use tools like mkvpropedit / JMkvpropedit to decide which audio/subtitle track is to be used when you start playing the video without creating a new file but it'll still have the multiple audio/subtitles.

To remove the superfluous audio/subtitles use MKVToolnix. Drag your MKV file onto it. Right-click on a track in the lower window and select "Disable all items"


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Next tick the tracks you want to keep and press "Start multiplexing" and your new file will be created. Use MediaInfo to see the content of the file.


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[ricardouk]

you can use an ffmpeg batch script or mkvbatch

https://forum.videohelp.com/threads/381870-Batch-remove-audio-streams-and-subtitles-fr...kv#post2471893