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FFMPEG Command to Add Subtitles to Video Using SRT File in Terminal
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Jun 3, 2025
ffmpeg -i video.mp4 -vf "subtitles=subs.srt:force_style='FontSize=48,PrimaryColour=&HFFFFFF&'" -c:v libx264 -pix_fmt yuv420p output_with_subs.mp4
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uh hello guys welcome to this video so
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in this video I will show you a sfmppg
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command which will actually take all the
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your subtitles which are mentioned in
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the subsrt file so it if you create a uh
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subtitle file right
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here there is a f ofmppg command which
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will take this input video which doesn't
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contain the
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subtitle and it will create this new
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file output with subtitle and it will
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take all the subtitles which are
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mentioned in this SRT file as you can
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see right here it will add these
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subtitles so I will show you this
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command which is really useful for
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actually adding subtitles to your video
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so it's a single command i have given
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this command in the description of this
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video so now to get started here so
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first of all you need to create a
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subtitle file in the same directory so
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it will be a simple subtitle file right
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here we give the timestamps so from 1
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second to 4 second you basically put
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this text hello welcome to our video
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tutorial and then from the fifth second
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to 8 second you can see that this is a
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second one second subtitle this is the
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third subtitle this is your time stamp
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this is the fourth one fifth one so five
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subtitles are there and uh now I will
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show you the command
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here so I've given this command in the
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description of this video so just open
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your command line and just paste this
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command
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fmpp i and this is your input file here
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which is video.mpp4
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mp4 here we are we are providing this if
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you see
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that the input file here video.mpp4 so
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we are simply providing it and then in
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sub double quotes we are providing this
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video filter subtitles is equal to subs
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srt so this is the file that we are
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providing and then for style font size
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you can control it 48 you can even
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control the color of the subtitle so we
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providing this hexa decimal code here
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and then we are putting this
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encoder and then this is your output
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file so these are two encoders lab 264
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and yuv 420p so if you execute this
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command here it will now process this
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video it will
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actually add all the subtitles which are
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mentioned in the file inside your video
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so this will not take a lot of time it's
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a simple 30 secondond video and then it
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will add all the subtitles right here so
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just wait for the command to finish and
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now you can see it has created a new
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file and if I play this you will see
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that the subtitles are being
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successfully
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added can see that let me also open it
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in a media
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player so you can see that guys so in
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this frame per second of a particular
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video or also speed of a video using
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FMPG right in the
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1.MP4 and so the command is given guys
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in the description of this video and uh
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