<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 10:24 AM, Travis Tabbal <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:travis@tabbal.net">travis@tabbal.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 11:05 AM, Ajay Sharma <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ajayrockrock@gmail.com" target="_blank">ajayrockrock@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="gmail_quote"><br></div>The problem is that I'm ripping the videos, transcoding them down and the subtitles are "on" the video. Like they're not separated so that there's no way to toggle them. I checked in mplayer and even it couldn't toggle the subtitles.<br>
<br>So the question becomes, how es one rip videos and subtitles so that you can turn them on/off at will?</blockquote><div></div><div><br></div></div><div>I use MakeMKV the most lately for ripping DVDs. However, it doesn't do transcoding. I don't bother with that as I have plenty of disk space and with a large screen TV, any quality loss from DVD is noticeable. </div>
<div><br></div><div>What format are you transcoding to? Container type? Perhaps your chosen container doesn't do separate subtitle streams, so the encoder adds the subs to the picture. </div></div></blockquote><div><br>
Umm.. I don't have access to the files right now but I'm just ripping the dvd's with mythvideo's "import dvd" feature and on the quality setting I select, "Good". <br><br>In my googling I found that MKV's are a great container that supports subtitles, chapters and all that jazz. Unfortunately, ripping a dvd with subtitles in a compressed format is not as easy as "insert disc -> rip":<br>
<br><a href="http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=273635">http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=273635</a><br><br>And I need to compress the video as I don't want to spend several gigs of space on a dvd library. Is there an easy way to rip dvd's to mkv's with subtitles? (easier then the link above?)<br>
<br>--Ajay<br></div></div>