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		7jjjjjjj 9 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: FFmpeg by Example -c:s mov_text is unnecessary and in fact might be fucking things up

pseudosavant 8 months ago [–]

I was kind of curious about that one too. It is encoding the SRT into the MP4/MOV subtitle format. I use it all the time when muxing subs into MP4s, but I haven't seen what happens with an MKV like that. It is very well supported in MP4s.

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