VideoFileTools
Video file manipulation scripts
videosplit.py
Batch extract all tracks of a given type from Matroska containers.
Uses mkvtoolnix (Mac OS: brew install mkvtoolnix) which does the heavy lifting
work of parsing and extracting the tracks.
The tracks are tagged by language when exported.
Example
- Extract all subtitles and place them alongside the mkv files
python videosplit.py --subtitles ~/Movies/*.mkv
ls ~/Movies/
Sintel.mkv
Sintel.3.eng.idx
Sintel.3.eng.sub
Sintel.4.eng.srt
- Extract all subtitles but save them elsewhere
python videosplit.py --subtitles video1.mkv video2.mkv video3.mkv --dst /tmp
ls /tmp
Sintel.3.eng.idx
Sintel.3.eng.sub
Sintel.4.eng.srt
- Extract all audio streams, subtitles and chapters from all the mkv files under ~/Movies including subdirectories
python videosplit.py --subtitles --chapters --audio ~/Movies
ls ~/Movies
Sintel.mkv
Sintel.2.eng.m4a
Sintel.3.eng.idx
Sintel.3.eng.sub
Sintel.4.eng.srt
Sintel.chapters.txt
Usage
python videosplit.py --help
usage: videosplit.py [-h] [-d DST] [-n] [--video] [--audio] [--subtitles]
[--chapters]
files) [file(s ...]
Tool to extract all subtitle or audio tracks from a video into separate files.
Requires: mkvtoolnix (Mac OS: brew install mkvtoolnix)
positional arguments:
file(s) mkv file(s)
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-d DST, --dst DST save the tracks in other directory (default same as
video)
-n, --dry-run do not write any files
Extracted tracks types:
--video extract video tracks
--audio extract audio tracks
--subtitles extract subtitles tracks
--chapters extract chapters