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I was looking for a quick way to generate a list of subtitles found in a given video file using ffmpeg.
This does the trick:
ffprobe YourVideoFile.mkv 2>&1 | grep "Subtitle"
which generates a list like so:
Stream #0:2(eng): Subtitle: subrip (srt) Stream #0:3(eng): Subtitle: subrip (srt) (original) (hearing impaired)
Or more advanced:
ffprobe -loglevel error -select_streams s -show_entries stream=index:stream_tags=language -of csv=p=0 YourVideoFile.mkv
Which generates a more concise list:
2,eng 3,eng
Or if you only want to see the English (eng) subtitles:
ffprobe -loglevel error -select_streams s -show_entries stream=index:stream_tags=eng -of csv=p=0 YourVideoFile.mkv
Which generates:
2 3
