[SOLVED] mkvmerge. making mkv's from avis and non-english srt files

Question

hi! im converting all my huge amount of .avi's to .mkv's with mkvmerge, but i found that with non-english characters, mkvmerge make wrong subtitles in the resulting mkv file, all letters such as á,é,í,ó,ú,ñ and ¿/¡ results in the subtitle not displaying correctly, any advice?
i think i need some sort of "Options that only apply to text subtitle tracks: --sub-charset <TID:charset>" but don't know how to implement it in the cli
i only do a "mkvmerge -v -o mkvfile avifile srtfile"
Last edited by leo2501 (2008-09-01 23:40:53)

Answer 1

well i come around with this bash script
avi2mkv:
#!/bin/bash
INPUT=$(basename $1 .avi)
SRT=$(ls | grep $INPUT.srt)
SUB=$(ls | grep $INPUT.sub)
SSA=$(ls | grep $INPUT.ssa)
if [ "$SRT" != "" ]; then
# mkvmerge -v -o $INPUT.mkv $1 $INPUT.srt
mkvmerge -v -o $INPUT.mkv $1 --sub-charset 0:UTF8 -s 0 -D -A $INPUT.srt
# mkvmerge -v -o $INPUT.mkv $1 $INPUT.eng.srt --sub-charset 0:UTF8 -s 0 -D -A $INPUT.spa.srt
elif [ "$SUB" != "" ]; then
mkvmerge -v -o $INPUT.mkv $1 $INPUT.sub
elif [ "$SSA" != "" ]; then
mkvmerge -v -o $INPUT.mkv $1 $INPUT.ssa
else
mkvmerge -v -o $INPUT.mkv $1
fi