file type help... soft to hard sub?

[juggalojohn]

recently i downloaded hsod ova and its a mkv w/ soft subs. i wanted to watch it on my xbox that can only run avi or mp4s. any ideas. ive tryed converting it to mp4 but i loose the subs. anyhelp would be nice

[ConsiderPhlebas]

ive tryed converting it to mp4 but i loose the subs.

A first tip would be to describe what software you've already tried and failed with.

[juggalojohn]

it was a miix of mkvmerge piper (to extract the sub) and mymp4box to change the file format. would it just be easyer to turn if into a hardsub insted?

[Van.]

nyaa torrent id: 347566
Edit:
sorry, it's TV, not OVA.

[pantywraith]

Transcode the .mkv with Handbreak. It has the option of converting soft to hard subs. You can also use it to switch audio types like Flac to mp3.

I use it all the time for my picky hardware players that hate 10-bit, lossless audio, and softsubs.

[juggalojohn]

nyaa torrent id: 347566
Edit:
sorry, it's TV, not OVA.

no this is the one im talking about


http://bakabt.me/164465-highschool-of-the-dead-ova-1080p-10-bit-thora.html

[ConsiderPhlebas]

Yes, that's what Van meant; he thought he'd found a hardsub for ya, but then realized you wanted the island ep and not the TV series 

[Motoko11]

Use Handbrake, pick your quality settings for video etc. make sure you have it set to save in an .MP4 container, then got to the subtitles heading, and check the "Burned in" option at the subtitle track you want. Depending on your specs on your PC, you may want to encode in MPEG-4 rather than H.264 as that is a long process for low power machines.

Just an extra note, if you want to remux into MP4 from MKV, you will not be able to use the ASS styled subtitles, MP4 doesn't support these.

[juggalojohn]

Use Handbrake, pick your quality settings for video etc. make sure you have it set to save in an .MP4 container, then got to the subtitles heading, and check the "Burned in" option at the subtitle track you want. Depending on your specs on your PC, you may want to encode in MPEG-4 rather than H.264 as that is a long process for low power machines.

Just an extra note, if you want to remux into MP4 from MKV, you will not be able to use the ASS styled subtitles, MP4 doesn't support these.

Transcode the .mkv with Handbreak. It has the option of converting soft to hard subs. You can also use it to switch audio types like Flac to mp3.

I use it all the time for my picky hardware players that hate 10-bit, lossless audio, and softsubs.

i think ill try using handbrake thx for the help