subtitlesvideo editing
I have a video file (in the format of .mp4, .mkv, .avi or whatever) and a subtitle file (.srt). I want to embed the subtitle file into the video file so that I have only one file – the video file in contrast to the video and the subtitle file.
Is it possible? How?
If you have MKVToolnix installed, you can use the mkvmerge command to merge together the streams.
mkvmerge -o output.mkv -A input.mkv sound.ac3 subtitles.srt
The -A switch makes sure no sound is taken from input.mkv. See the examples section for more.
For Windows, there exists the MKVToolnix GUI, which would make this a little easier:
In Ubuntu and similar distros, there should be the mkvtoolnix-gui package.
FFmpeg has a SubRip encoder, so
ffmpeg -i input.mkv -c copy -c:s srt out.mkv
Best Answer
MKVtoolnix is another easy to use option since you already have the files you want. You can combine them into an MKV container without altering the originals in anyway. It has a nice GUI to guide you through the combination process as well.
I see user1301428 had mentioned Handbrake, which is also a very common/popular tool. I'm not as familiar with it, but if it doesn't re-encode your source AVI then it should be great.