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by mw007
Fri Sep 28, 2012 11:23 pm
Forum: MakeMKV for Linux
Topic: makemkvcon and removing the subtitles [RESOLVED]
Replies: 9
Views: 20535

Re: makemkvcon and removing the subtitles [RESOLVED]

No worries! At least the command technically worked. I'm not above searching for things that my distro doesn't have, old or not :D
by mw007
Fri Sep 28, 2012 3:33 pm
Forum: MakeMKV for Linux
Topic: makemkvcon and removing the subtitles [RESOLVED]
Replies: 9
Views: 20535

Re: makemkvcon and removing the subtitles [RESOLVED]

Thank you! I was searching for the new functionality, as listed in the commit message.

I was searching the man pages for "preset" and was coming up empty-handed.
by mw007
Fri Sep 28, 2012 11:09 am
Forum: MakeMKV for Linux
Topic: makemkvcon and removing the subtitles [RESOLVED]
Replies: 9
Views: 20535

Re: makemkvcon and removing the subtitles

Thank you everyone! MakeMKV generally builds lossless MKVs, i.e. preserving the original quality. To significantly reduce the filesize, you need to transcode at least one of the streams, especially the video stream. You might want to try ffmpeg (or libav), something like this: ffmpeg -i input.mkv -a...
by mw007
Thu Sep 27, 2012 11:38 am
Forum: MakeMKV for Linux
Topic: makemkvcon and removing the subtitles [RESOLVED]
Replies: 9
Views: 20535

Re: makemkvcon and removing the subtitles

Because of something like this. [mw007@localhost movies]$ ls -lh mult* -rw-r--r-- 1 mw007 users 4.0G Aug 16 19:27 multiplicity.iso -rw-r--r-- 1 mw007 users 3.6G Sep 23 10:19 multiplicity.mkv Going from ISO to MKV only brought the filesize down by about 400 MB. Ideally, I'd like to get each movie to ...
by mw007
Wed Sep 26, 2012 5:16 pm
Forum: MakeMKV for Linux
Topic: makemkvcon and removing the subtitles [RESOLVED]
Replies: 9
Views: 20535

makemkvcon and removing the subtitles [RESOLVED]

I am attempting to convert my DVD library (currently in ISO format) to mkv using the makemkvcon tool. I would like to preserve only the movie content (usually title 0) and just the english audio (seems to be title 1). All of my efforts have resulted in keeping the subtitles and other languages. I ha...