Handbrake: Subtitles suggestion - Import .ass files

[28598519a]

Can you add .ass subtitles support?

[AndreiPukrov]

looks like according to wikipedia this format is only rarely used and many players (hardware based) do not really recognize that.

So why did´t you use mkvtoolnix to add that after the handbrake job finished? Adding a subtitle file via mkvtoolnix would only take some seconds. You could do also a bulk merge if needed via:

for f in *.mkv; do mkvmerge -o "./muxed/$f" "$f" "${f%.mkv}.ass"; done

[bradleysepos]

@AndreiPukrov Actually, ASS/SSA is quite popular.

There may be another open issue for this request; we're not opposed to it but haven't made time to add it yet.

[woodstockathbf]

They're already supported if you have mux'ed them into the source. The renderer in handbrake does a very good job of drawing them, with many types of decoration.

Passing them through to the output... handbrake translates both SRT and ASS/SSA to a common format. I can confirm that at least several of the popular hardware players do a particularly poor job of rendering them, which is why I have handbrake burn them in.

One complication of doing ASS/SSA as "add-in" like SRT files is that most I've encountered require several non-standard fonts, which must be embedded with the subtitle file, or they won't look the way the subtitle author intended. The TTF files are separate from the subtitle file itself.

[galad87]

Duplicate of #226