In the todays blog post I will show you how to extract subtitles from a MKV file and how to convert the .sub/.idx files to .srt files. I have this requirement as I use the Twonky mediaserver which only accepts .srt files with my Samsung TV. The whole guide is using brew and therefore is only for Mac users. There are surely similar or the same tools available for any other linux or maybe also Windows. If you find these please tell me such that I can update this blog post. So lets start by installing the needed tools for extracting the subtitles from the .mkv files: Next we want to see all tracks of the .mkv file: This will give you a similar output: So we see that this .mkv has one video, two audio (english and german) and two VobSub subtitles tracks (english and german). We are interested in the two last tracks and with these commands you can extract them: Currently I only extracted VobSub subtitles and this guide deals with the .sub/.idx files and convert them to the .srt format. It could also be that there are already .srt files in the .mkv files, then you do not need to convert anything and just check the language of the subtitles by opening them in any text editor and check the language. This will result in four files named sub3.idx/sub3.sub and sub4.idx/sub4.sub in the same directory. Currently we do not see what language the subtitles are so we need to convert them to...