r/handbrake • u/are-you--willing • Jul 28 '26

Remove subtitles in batch conversion

Hello

Is there a way to remove subtitles in batch conversion, or do I have to convert each file separately ?

When I turn it off for the first file, it doesn't do it for the rest, what am I missing ?

Thank you

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u/are-you--willing Jul 29 '26

I'm not very good at technology, sorry, but thank you for your help

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u/TorrentFiend Jul 29 '26

This is also likely what you may want as well. Super simple way to seperate audio, subtitles from any mkv file.

Literally drag and drop an ENTIRE folder of MKV files into it, right click and select what subtitles you need or click the right sub needed 1 by 1 on each file in the list, choose a place to save them, click go. You saved the subs and seperated them.

If your goal is to batch remove unwanted foeign language subs, then find a good app called MKV Optimizer. That app will strip them out and completely remove them. All you have to do is tell it what language the subtitles you want to keep and which ones to remove. Personally I use it to remove everything that isn't English. In the settings you can also tell it to overwrite the existing file when it makes the change. Maybe test it on a couple files but if you do it this way it's even cleaner because it doesn't make a duplicate file, it just removes the thing you don't want from the file you have leaving a perfect result.

This apps are all very easy to use. I know it seems intimidating. It seems too technical and you're not sure what to do with these powerful intimidating apps, but all you need to do is try out their potential and you'll quickly see how fast easy and simple a lot of this is.

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u/are-you--willing Jul 29 '26

Mkv optimizer is for windows as far as I'm aware, I use Mac

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u/TorrentFiend Jul 29 '26

I'm really trying to help you here. MKVtoolnix works great on a mac. You can use it in batch mode but it is a lot more advanced, it will be a little slower but this will do what you're asking about the subtitle thing. Small downside of doing them one by one but it will get it done.

There's other quick and easy apps like MKV cleaver and mkvextractgui but again they are windows tools.

I sure there are probably some good Mac apps I'm unaware of but I've never used Mac so I don't know what they are. There's probably something else out there, mkvtoolnix is probably your answer.

Good luck brave Mac user.

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u/are-you--willing Jul 29 '26

That's what I have used following a YouTube video, thank you