[FFmpeg-user] MP4 with 9 subtitle streams

[Ferdi Scholten]

>> Le sam. 23 sept. 2023 à 17:38, Mark Filipak
>> <markfilipak.imdb at gmail.com>  a écrit :
>>> On Sat, Sep 23, 2023 at 2:29 AM Paul B Mahol<onemda at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>>> On 9/23/23, Mark Filipak<markfilipak.imdb at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>>>> Why doesn't this work? I made an MP4 with 9 subtitle streams via
>>>>> HandBrake. I think ffmpeg and HandBrake use the same libraries.
> -snip-
>>> "codec not currently supported in container [mp4]" is obviously not
>>> true. I've proven that MP4 does support at least 9 SRT subtitles.
>> I don't think it's the number of subs
> I agree.
>
> but rather the subrip format (aka. codec)
> I don't agree. HandBrake has no problem with it. Whatever HandBrake
> can do, ffmpeg can also do. The matter is How.

srt subtitles are not officially supported by the mp4 specifications. 
They need to be converted to TTXT format, Furthermore for ffmpeg to do 
that the encoding of the srt file needs to be UTF8, other formats are 
(supposedly) not supported. (default encoding for srt is Windows-1252)
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