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by jimva
Wed Feb 13, 2019 4:03 am
Forum: General MakeMKV discussion
Topic: New Feature - MakeMKV now extracts closed captions and saves them as text subtitles
Replies: 5
Views: 13992

Re: New Feature - MakeMKV now extracts closed captions and saves them as text subtitles

Love it! I asked about his feature 3 years ago. Took awhile but finally got what I wanted!
by jimva
Thu Jul 14, 2016 1:30 am
Forum: General MakeMKV discussion
Topic: Am I missing Closed Captions with 2.6.3 ??
Replies: 21
Views: 67503

Re: Am I missing Closed Captions with 2.6.3 ??

preserve

Learning more every day about sub titles and captions. I have 2 toddlers and a swamp cooler to save energy. the noise levels are so loud at times that if my tv is at full blast i still miss most of the sound track on a movie.

So I use closed captions or subtitles all the time.

Closed ...
by jimva
Tue Jun 28, 2016 7:06 pm
Forum: General MakeMKV discussion
Topic: DVD SRT
Replies: 4
Views: 10612

Re: DVD SRT

Yes yorgo: I will donate soon even though my wish may not come true :wink: .

Woodstock: Thanks for your comment I've tried just about all and was looking for the convenience of one click app.

chaslinux: So far I have not had any big issues yet with Plex handling graphics based closed caption. It's ...
by jimva
Mon Jun 27, 2016 2:42 am
Forum: General MakeMKV discussion
Topic: DVD SRT
Replies: 4
Views: 10612

DVD SRT

Lets start with I love MKV.

Now that I have learned way more about DVD's than I want to here's the problem.

I love Plex and have invested heavily into it. Plex prefers text based .srt files for many valid reasons. Plex prefers .mkv files as well.

I have to rip each dvd twice.

1. MakeMKV to get ...
by jimva
Sun Jun 19, 2016 2:14 am
Forum: General MakeMKV discussion
Topic: Am I missing Closed Captions with 2.6.3 ??
Replies: 21
Views: 67503

Re: Am I missing Closed Captions with 2.6.3 ??

I have spent a week now learning about "Closed Captions" for DVD's.

Apparently there are different types of closed captions.

EIA-608 appears to be the original standard and is a simple text stream. Notepad on windows can create one.

VOBSUB's and RLE are graphics based with no text information in ...