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Great program, this will be a hit when it’s error free! Hopefully it will have a maximum price of USD 25.

I have three complains. First, it should be nice if you can select audio and subtitles stream for both DVD and Blu-ray disc and files on hard drive. Second, I use a Popcorn Hour A-110 for playing media files, it can’t use the subtitle structure: gives the next error: subtitle format not recognized. Third, it would be nice if you can set a compress mode for making a smaller MKV file.

Thanks for working on this program!! Hopefully it will be as great as DVD Shrink.

Hi TopGun,

TopGun2010 wrote:Great program, this will be a hit when it’s error free! Hopefully it will have a maximum price of USD 25.

First of all-thank you!

I have three complains. First, it should be nice if you can select audio and subtitles stream for both DVD and Blu-ray disc and files on hard drive.

I'm not sure whether I understand what you mean, sorry. You could always select audio and subtitles track in every title by expanding it and choosing the ones you need.

Second, I use a Popcorn Hour A-110 for playing media files, it can’t use the subtitle structure: gives the next error: subtitle format not recognized.

Do you have this problem with DVD or BluRay? If it's DVD it's very strange- it should work. The format of BluRay subtitles is new, so it may happen that Popcorn doesn't support it yet.

Third, it would be nice if you can set a compress mode for making a smaller MKV file.

MakeMKV does not change audio/video data during conversion at all. Soit is impossible to change output size since it is determined by input size. But you could always re-encode MKV with different parameters and there are many free tools to do it.

Thank you!

Hi Mike,

Do you have this problem with DVD or BluRay? If it's DVD it's very strange- it should work. The format of BluRay subtitles is new, so it may happen that Popcorn doesn't support it yet.

-with blu-ray, i have not tested with dvd, i will do this.

Third, it would be nice if you can set a compress mode for making a smaller MKV file.

MakeMKV does not change audio/video data during conversion at all. Soit is impossible to change output size since it is determined by input size. But you could always re-encode MKV with different parameters and there are many free tools to do it.

-OK, thanks for your help.

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Hi Mike,

Also with DVD, Popcorn Hour A-110 displays: Subtitle Format Not Supported

Maybe with new firmware (this month) it works.

Greetings

I've just downloaded the latest version and I too have this problem with the popcorn hour A100. "Subtitle Format Not Supported"


any idea why?

@TopGun2010
Your second issue...
The PGS subtitle format of BluRays is indeed currently not supported by the Popcorn 1xx family (as of firmware version 01-17-090204-15-POP-403-000, the latest as of this writing).

The problem with subtitles on BluRays lies with the Popcorn units, and not with MakeMKV.

cheers,
CJ

The Popcorn Hour has never supported VOBSUB/IDX subtitles embedded within an MKV. This is a well known and not related to MakeMKV.

mkvextract (a part of the mkvtoolnix suite) will pull embeded vobsub/idx files out of the mkv container in less than 2 minutes on my machine. I don't know about the popcorn-hour but my WD-TV reads the extracted external vobsub files perfectly.


The syntax for extracting vobsub subtitles with mkvextract (assuming subs are the 3rd track) is below.
This will extract two files:- your-movie.idx and your-movie.sub

As long as the filenames are the same as the movie name the WD-TV sees the subs and displays them fine.


Note: It's easy to acertain the track number with Mediainfo

There is a GUI for mkvextract available but I've never needed it. you can get that here. http://coreforge.org/projects/mkvextractgui/

thanks for the pointers guys.

just to clarify (I should have said this initially), I'm mkv-ing a DVD, not a bluray. Does the same still apply i.e. it's a VOBSUB/IDX issue?

doubledrat wrote:thanks for the pointers guys.

just to clarify (I should have said this initially), I'm mkv-ing a DVD, not a bluray. Does the same still apply i.e. it's a VOBSUB/IDX issue?

Correct. The Popcorn Hour firmware to support vobsub/idx subtitles embedded within MKVs has been in BETA testing since about February. Hopefully it will be released soon. You will need to embed a different format of subtitle within the MKV.