Handbrake: Adding Subtitle Files to Bulk Encode Automatically

[jeremymeyers]

Describe the change or feature you'd like to see added to HandBrake:

When doing a bulk encode (i.e. 'add files to queue' of an entire folder of multiple files)

Current Behavior:

• If .srt files are present, one must go into each title and add them as an external SRT, which can be cumbersome for large folders

Requested behavior:

• If a SRT file is present with the identical filename as one of the titles in the queue, automatically attach the subtitles to the individual title. (ideally with a tickmark option or confirmation dialog noting that this has happened)

What version of HandBrake are you currently using? (e.g., 1.0.0)

HandBrake version here.

What operating system and version are you running?

Handbrake 1.1.2 on Mac 10.12.16

HandBrake Activity Log required (see https://handbrake.fr/docs/en/latest/help/activity-log.html)

If the request is off the back of failure or unsupported file format, please post a lot as it can help us track down what is missing.

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[woodstockathbf]

Cumbersome in the GUI, but not so if you're using the Command Line Interface and shell scripting. You can even use GUI-created presets.

[bradleysepos]

The biggest problem at the moment is detecting the character encoding of the subtitle file. Most sane people are using UTF-8 everywhere for awhile now, but SRT never really standardized so it can be anything. That said, this would be a welcome improvement to the GUI.

I think this may be a duplicate of another request here. Will have to double check when I have more time.

[sr55]

Agreed. We might be able to do something to guess a character set but there is always the risk of corrupted output if we guess wrong.

[bradleysepos]

Probably worth taking a glance at how VLC decides.