Batch merge/mux MP4 and SRT files to MKV

So I’ve been searching around to an answer to this and have been able to find very many similar cases, but unable to actually find an answer to what I’m trying to do.

I took a look at these two threads in particular:

• Batch merge/mux .srt with .mkv files
• FFmpeg : mp4 and multiple srt into mkv

Also Google’d around and read a bunch of man pages to no avail. (Doesn’t mean the answers aren’t there, I just couldn’t find them!)

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Anyway, with that preface out of the way, here’s what I’m trying to do:

I have three folders (and a billion files) of this:

• Show Name – S##E## – Title.mp4
• Show Name – S##E## – Title.eng.srt

I’m trying to merge every .mp4 and .srt into just Show Name - S##E## - Title.mkv with the subtitles included in the file.

The problem with the first related thread that I linked is that it just turns the .mp4 into .mkv and doesn’t merge the subtitles at all.

Code:

FOR %%A IN (*.mp4) DO "C:Program FilesMKVToolNixmkvmerge.exe" -o "%%~nA.mkv" "%%~A"

This creates the .mkv file, but doesn’t include the subtitles. If I try to add "%%~dpnA.srt" or anything after "%%~A", I get a message saying: Error: The file 'C:UsersxnaasDesktoptestShow Name - S##E## - Title.srt' could not be opened for reading: open file error. and similar. I geuss my biggest confusion here is I don’t know what any of what I’m typing is doing. What is a ~ or nA doing?

The problem with the second link is that I don’t know how to adapt it to be in batch form because I’m not sure how to do that with ffmpeg at all. I assume it’s just another for loop, but I’m not all that familiar with it.

This is the only script I’ve used for ffmpeg (Linux now vs Windows above) before:

for f in *.mkv; do ffmpeg -i "$f" -c:v libx264 -preset medium -crf 18 -c:a copy "encoded/${f%.mkv}.mkv"; done

I’m sure it could probably be adapted, but I’m not sure how.

for f in *.mp4; do ffmpeg -i "$f" -c copy "test/${f%}.mkv"; done

That’s the best I could come up with after a long while tinkering with it, but this obviously doesn’t bring in the subtitle files and it names everything .mp4.mkv as well.

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Sorry for the massive wall of crap up there. I look forward to any assistance/insight anyone can offer. Thank you!

FOR %%A IN (*.mp4) DO "C:Program FilesMKVToolNixmkvmerge.exe" -o "%%~nA.mkv" "%%~A" "%%~nA.srt" --default-language en --language 1:en

FOR %%A IN (*.mp4) DO "C:Program FilesMKVToolNixmkvmerge.exe" -o "%%~nA.mkv" "%%~A" "%%~nA.eng.srt"