When I download a torrent file of a complete TV series it quite often has the sub file in a separate folder to the actual episodes. How do I transfer the subs to the TV files?

I do it with Handbrake and convert them to Apple format at the same time for network sharing to several Apple TV’s. Handbrake is really slow. I’d like a better free solution, but haven’t found one. 

Open the video file and just drag-and-drop the subtitle file onto the window with the playing video.

I looked this up a few years ago but everything I found was too complicated for my puny brain so I just use VLC now and open the subtitle file manually. The K.I.S.S. approach ????

On my LG TV I only have to put the video and the srt file into the same folder. 

31 minutes ago, Mickeymaus said:

On my LG TV I only have to put the video and the srt file into the same folder. 

Good tip and also maybe change the file name of the subtitle file (srt) to the name of the video

 

for example

 

Video is called: Video.mp4

change the srt file to Video.srt

 

look here https://wiki.videolan.org/subtitles under #3 external subtitles 

 

 

You can do it in handbrake, as mentioned, but it would reencode, depending upon your computing power, it could take some time.

 

The best way would be ffmpeg - this would mux the subs into the file, its command line, so may be a little difficult to get your head around, but it's the fastest.