{"id":18111,"date":"2025-04-16T23:15:02","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T03:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=18111"},"modified":"2025-04-16T23:15:03","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T03:15:03","slug":"convert-video-movie-files-to-mkvs-with-embedded-subtitles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=18111","title":{"rendered":"Convert Video\/Movie files to MKVs with Embedded Subtitles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Because some of my TVs (i.e. <strong>Samsung<\/strong>) only plays subtitles when the file is MKV with embedded subtitles, I have to convert my mp4, etc. files into MKV and merge the srt subtitle files in MKV (My <strong>LG <\/strong>TV could just play any mp4 file with embedded subtitle via a command that I mentioned in my journal before), the best freeware to do this task is called <a href=\"https:\/\/handbrake.fr\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/handbrake.fr\/\">HandBrake <\/a>(don't use VLC, never work: just keeps looping the conversion into a &lt;100k corrupted file despite claiming it has MKV conversion with embedded subtitle).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because some of my TVs (i.e. Samsung) only plays subtitles when the file is MKV with embedded subtitles, I have to convert my mp4, etc. files into MKV and merge the srt subtitle files in MKV (My LG TV could &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=18111\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18111"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18112,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18111\/revisions\/18112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}