Is it possible with vlc to remove the two existing subtitle tracks (leaving video and audio track unchanged) and render the srt-subtitles directly into the video (i.e. not adding a sub track)?

 

Or is vlc not the weapon of choice for this task?

No, no it is not. VLC is a video player, not a video editor, which is what you need.

Try HandBrake, that is a popular video-editor which a cursory search seems to indicate includes support of Matroska videos and subtitle editing. Also, SUPER is a front-end to FFmpeg and MEncoder, so it supports most formats, though it doesn’t seem to support subtitle modification directly, so you would have to extract the video and add the subtitle separately.

Is it possible with vlc to remove the two existing subtitle tracks (leaving video and audio track unchanged) and render the srt-subtitles directly into the video (i.e. not adding a sub track)?

Or is vlc not the weapon of choice for this task?

No, no it is not. VLC is a video player, not a video editor, which is what you need.

Try HandBrake, that is a popular video-editor which a cursory search seems to indicate includes support of Matroska videos and subtitle editing. Also, SUPER is a front-end to FFmpeg and MEncoder, so it supports most formats, though it doesn’t seem to support subtitle modification directly, so you would have to extract the video and add the subtitle separately.