Feature request: Text Streams in .mkv copied out if not cutting?

Started by appyface, November 12, 2024, 11:04:00 PM

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appyface

Using Avidemux 2.8.1.

Feature request: Is it possible to copy the text streams (subtitles, etc.) from an input .mkv to output .mkv when just transcoding audio and/or video?

I searched here first, and found this has been asked before - but in the context of cutting. I'm just transcoding (typically audio, occasionally video), and possibly selecting specific audio tracks. No cutting, trimming, etc.

As a workaround I've used mkvtoolnix to export the text streams, Avidemux to copy/transcode (no text streams in output), then mkvtoolnix to add the text streams to the output. It's a few steps but doable.

So... Would it be possible for Avidemux to do it in one step? To check the parameters, and when there's no cutting or other alteration and input/out are both .mkv, to have the option to also copy all the text streams to the output .mkv file?

Thank you for any consideration of this idea.

Kind regards.