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Is there a way I can remove subtitle data from an .mkv?

slhck
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Phillip B Oldham
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Use MkvToolNix. The mkvmerge tool can do exactly what you want. It's a very capable Matroska manipulator and should be able to remove any kind of stream from an MKV without recoding all the other streams.

  • On Windows, download the latest version from here. Just run the installer.
  • On Linux, you can find the package mkvtoolnix in your repository, or alternatively download them from the homepage.
  • On OS X, the easiest way would be to install mkvtoolnix through Homebrew.

I think one of these commands will do what you want:

# assume input.mkv has 3 subtitle tracks
# remove subtitle track 2 (copy 1&3) from input.mkv & save to output.mkv
mkvmerge -o output.mkv --subtitle-tracks 1,3 input.mkv

remove all subtitles (copy none)


mkvmerge -o output.mkv --no-subtitles input.mkv
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