Batch MKV muxing (adding/removing SRT in multiple files)

[Ygramul]

I have six episodes of a show and they all look like this in MKVtoolnix:


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I want to remove everything except video and audio streams and ADD an external SRT file, so it looks like this before muxing:


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As far as I know, MKVtoolnix can't do that. What software can?

[bizzybody]

MKV Toolnix has options to auto-not-select languages you don't want, but they have to be properly tagged so it can recognized them to ignore them. IIRC it also can do that with SDH and commentary, if properly tagged.

[pcspeak]

A small batch file using ffmpeg.exe. All videos and subs in the one folder. Output created in the New\ folder.
newsubs01.cmd

@echo off
if not exist New\ md New
for %%a in ("*.mkv") do if exist "%%~na.srt" ffmpeg.exe -i "%%a" -sub_charenc UTF-8 -i "%%~na.srt" -map 0:0 -map 0:1 -map 1:s -disposition:s:0 forced -c copy "New\%%~na.mkv"