Adding Subtitle and Scaling Film using ffmpeg

Linux Version :
# lsb_release -da
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS
Release:        14.04
Codename:       trusty

You will need to install :

root@kecap:/tmp# apt-get install ffmpeg

ffmpeg used for adding and scaling film, for another information you can google it.

root@kecap:/tmp# apt-get install fontconfig

because i want use another font for my subtitle, in this case it's Arial

root@kecap:/tmp# apt-get install ttf-mscorefonts-installer

you need to install this package to get microsoft fonts, but if after installing this package and you got empty directory (like what happen to me), simple...just copy arial font from windows to /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/ and run fs-cache.

Now, we go to main topic.

Adding subtitle using ffmpeg
Basic :

ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -vf subtitles=mysub.srt output.mp4

Advanced :

ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -vf subtitles="f=mysub.srt:force_style='FontName=Arial Bold,FontSize=22,PrimaryColour=&H0009FAFD,OutlineColour=&H00000000,WrapStyle=2,Borderstyle=1,Outline=1,Shadow=1'" -y output.mp4

for .ASS tag description please read this

Scaling film using ffmpeg
Basic :

ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -vf scale=1028:720 output.mp4

Advanced :

ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -vf scale=-1:720 -c:v libx264 -profile:v high -level:v 3.1 -c:a copy output.mp4

Combining two ffmpeg command

ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -vf "scale=-1:720,subtitles="f=mysub.srt:force_style='FontName=Arial Bold,FontSize=22,PrimaryColour=&H0009FAFD,OutlineColour=&H00000000,WrapStyle=2,Borderstyle=1,Outline=1,Shadow=1'"" -c:v libx264 -profile:v high -level:v 3.1 -y output.mp4

ffmpeg & bash
If you writing ffmpeg script inside bash, you will get "funny error"

Parse error, at least 3 arguments were expected, only 1 given in string....

the point is the bash script seems to produce input (Namely the 'c' key) which interferes with the ffmpeg process. just add >/dev/null at the end of the ffmpeg command to prevent ffmpeg from reading its standard input, see example below:

ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -vf scale=1028:720 output.mp4 >/dev/null

for more information you can read it here

Playing MKV Files On Windows Media Player 12 On Windows 7 64 Bit

You will need to install all this application.

1. Install the latest stable version from ffdshow tryout, because some aplication still running on 32 Bit, so i download all ffdshow version :

• 32-bit: ffdshow 1.2.4422
• 64-bit: ffdshow 1.2.4422

2. Install Haali Media Splitter

3. Install Win7DSFilterTweaker

Configuring

1. Running Win7DSFilterTweaker

Here's my setting for Preferred Decoders, checked all ffdshow checkbox (uncheck all Microsoft checkbox).

For Microsoft Codec Tweaks, i disabled all Microsoft Audio and Video Decoder, both 32 Bit and 64 Bit

And for the last setting, i did nothing to it :D

Done