[MrJohz]

I have used this in the past, but I've never been able to get the subtitles to sync up properly. Typically they're copied over, but the first subtitle will start as soon as the video starts (as opposed to when the first spoken words start) and end when the video ends, with all the rest of the subtitles spaced out apparently according to the correct proportions, just at the wrong times.

I've tried fiddling around with when the subtitles should start, but because the subtitles end up stretched out so much, that makes all the later subtitles wrong. And I'm typically ripping a bunch of TV shows, so I want to do as little manual work as possible for each episode, because that all adds up quickly.

Do you know if I'm missing a library or a setting somewhere? Maybe I just need to try again with the latest version and see if it's been fixed over time.

[galad87]

HandBrake requires a patched version of libavcodec/libavformat libraries. Some Linux distributions like to link it to their system libavcodec/libavformat versions, and this breaks many things, DVD subtitles too. However, if you are using a version that's linked with the right libraries, it's probably a bug that should be reported.

[ellisv]

I think the problem is linking to the “right libraries”.

I tried using the libraries from MakeMKV but found it easier to just two step the process.

[defrost]

Subtitles are an issue because even if they're "correct" from source (as a synced track) they often have other issues, raw subtitles are still very much YMMV (Your Mileage May Vary).

If you care enough about subtitles and are converting for future reference then it's worth using SubtitleEdit to correct | align | correct case | spell check | generate translations | etc and then merge final (video + audio) tracks from HB with SubtitleTracks using (say) MKV Toolnix.

https://nikse.dk/SubtitleEdit/

https://mkvtoolnix.download/

These are tools that can be streamlined and batched (with some degree of learning curve).

> so I want to do as little manual work as possible for each episode

I typically transcode Audio+Video, seperate out subtitles automatically along with "most common least destructive" touchups scripted and then watch.

You can achieve this by dropping input file in a watched folder and having the results plopped out in a "to be viewed" folder.

Most of the time everything is A-OK .. when the syncing is out I correct it via SubtitleEdit and continue watching.

You can save Episode.mkv and Episode.srt together, or batch bind the srt into the mkv as you store OR you can go to town with multiple subtitles if you're a media meta data nerd.

[CWuestefeld]

Check out Subtitle Speech Synchronizer [1]. This uses speech recognition to listen to the audio track, and make whatever corrections to the subtitles, outputting it as a .srt file. Works great.

[1] https://subsync.online/

[cf100clunk]

Thanks for that tip, and it seems to have a Posix version buildable from source, so I hope I can soon test it on Linux.

I rely on gaupol for subtitle editing.

https://github.com/otsaloma/gaupol