jmkvpropedit VS mkvtoolnix-batch

I think they will only be enabled automatically if the subtitle track you want has the “Forced” flag on it within your video file. You can use MKVToolnix to do this on individual files or you can use jmkvpropedit to batch edit files.

I forgot to mention there’s also JMkvpropedit which makes it easier to batch edit. I’ve used it for anime before and it works great.

jmkvpropedit is a lovely tool that i've been using for years to do this.

JMkvpropedit

If you're ripping it yourself then your software seems to create bad metadata for your audio. You can try batch editing the audio tracks using JMKVproperedit

mkvpropedit can do this, although the command-line options aren't as convenient as mkvmerge, so I'd recommend JMkvpropedit (a GUI built on top of mkvpropedit). Should just be a case of dragging/dropping your files in then adjusting the options.

The subtitles, which are inside the .srt file we created earlier, are automatically embedded into the new file by StaxRip. I wanted them to be selected as the default option when the player plays the video so that I didn't need to go into the settings and turn on subtitles for each video. This can be done with the software MKVToolNix. In its default state, MKVToolNix cannot apply the same settings to multiple video files at once, but thanks to a guy from GitHub, we have a workaround for that! Another plus of using MKVToolNix is that it fixes a fault in StaxRip's encoder that causes it not to display video information like the framerate in programs like VLC (when you press CTRL+J). After MKVToolNix has remuxed the video, the information is shown correctly again.

I was tinkering with the .bat file that I found here below to automate my mkv remuxing.

If your on Windows, check out this repo that gives instructions on how to use mkvtools to batch convert files. If you on Linux, youre probably able to code your own bash script using the bat script as a template.

In my experience the 'MKV Muxing Batch GUI 2.0' is a great tool that takes all the trouble out of working with 'option.json' files etc. But somehow for the files that I checked with, the 'MKV Muxing Batch GUI 2.0' tool removed some of the metadata tags that are not removed when using the batch process at https://github.com/Serede/mkvtoolnix-batch.

There is no correct or wrong way. It’s just personal preference. Since Plex doesn’t care about those tags then there isn’t a way it needs to be done. I typically don’t do anything to the tags unless it involves subtitles. If you are on windows you can use this batch script to modify multiple files. Works great but test it first to see if it works for whatever you are looking to do.

I am running on windows. I currently use MKVtoolnix with a batch script to modify multiple files at once. Instead of doing each file one at a time.