# How to hard code foreign subtitles **URL:** https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/t/how-to-hard-code-foreign-subtitles/2632 **Category:** Subtitles / Closed Captions **Created:** [February 22, 2019, 8:32pm UTC](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/t/how-to-hard-code-foreign-subtitles/2632 "2019-02-22T20:32:41Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 4
### Author: ![Goose](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Goose](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/u/Goose) #### Post date: [February 26, 2019, 12:54am UTC](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/t/how-to-hard-code-foreign-subtitles/2632/4 "2019-02-26T00:54:32Z")
The above applies to any subtitle available in a SRT format. If there are image subtitles you need to this technique to have MCEBuddy convert the image subtitles to SRT and then burn them in: > [@How to Enable DVB and Image Subtitle Extraction](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/t/how-to-enable-dvb-and-image-subtitle-extraction/154): > > MCEBuddy can automatically convert image based subtitles (e.g. DVB or burned in subtitles) into a text subtitle (SRT) using OCR (Optical Character Recognition). This feature requires additional files to be downloaded because OCR processing requires very large data files (~1 GB in size) which cannot be bundled within the MCEBuddy setup file. MCEBuddy Version 2.7.1 and newer The OCR files are automatically downloaded and installed if an internet connection is available after MCEBuddy setup compl… --- _[View the full topic](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/t/how-to-hard-code-foreign-subtitles/2632)._