How to embed an audio and a subtitle file into a MKV file
If you have MKVToolnix installed, you can use the mkvmerge command to merge together the streams.
mkvmerge -o output.mkv -A input.mkv sound.ac3 subtitles.srt
The -A switch makes sure no sound is taken from input.mkv. See the examples section for more.
For Windows, there exists the MKVToolnix GUI, which would make this a little easier:
In Ubuntu and similar distros, there should be the mkvtoolnix-gui package.
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I have a
MKVfile in which I want to embed anAC3audio file. I also want to embed aSRTsubtitle file into it. How can I achieve that?Note: AC3 file is the same length of the original video.