Burnt subtitles?

[mazzo]

Hi folks, I'm working off a mac, and the vast majority of dvds I've burnt with MakemKV automatically do subs, which is ideal because I am deaf, I need them.

I just tried to digitise my copy of Dr Strangelove. It definitely has subs on the dvd so I don't know why it's not doing it here. It did not embed subs this time. I don't see anything in the app for subtitles, can someone please tell me how to burn this with subs?

thank you in advance.

[Woodstock]

That are a number of things that can affect subtitles.

One is that DVD subtitles are different than Bluray subtitles. You cannot include BD subtitles in MP4 files, for example, but there is an extension to allow DVD subtitles in them. To do BD subtitles, you MUST use MKV files and a compatible player, or burn them in with your conversion software.

Subtitles can be affected by whether or not you set the "default" and "forced" flags when you encode them without burning them in.

Many films have two sets of subtitles, the "forced" and "all" subtitles. If you select the wrong track to burn in, you'll only see (say) the Russian language subtitled in Dr Strangelove.

I'm currently re-encoding my entire collection of DVDs and BDs due to theft of my servers, and, as most of that is multi-language, I've been having to watch sections of each series to determine which subtitle track gets priority and whether I set it to force it on. It's frankly a pain in the a**, but...

[mazzo]

That are a number of things that can affect subtitles.

One is that DVD subtitles are different than Bluray subtitles. You cannot include BD subtitles in MP4 files, for example, but there is an extension to allow DVD subtitles in them. To do BD subtitles, you MUST use MKV files and a compatible player, or burn them in with your conversion software.

Subtitles can be affected by whether or not you set the "default" and "forced" flags when you encode them without burning them in.

Many films have two sets of subtitles, the "forced" and "all" subtitles. If you select the wrong track to burn in, you'll only see (say) the Russian language subtitled in Dr Strangelove.

I'm currently re-encoding my entire collection of DVDs and BDs due to theft of my servers, and, as most of that is multi-language, I've been having to watch sections of each series to determine which subtitle track gets priority and whether I set it to force it on. It's frankly a pain in the a**, but...

Thank you for the reply! I'm on a Verbatim BluRay, but the disc is actually a dvd. I don't see any options for subtitles in the MakeMKV windows for subs, can you tell me where to look to deal with the encoding and subtitles on the mac interface? I'm probably looking right at it, but I don't see the options,

Sorry if it's really obvious-- I'm not very tech literate, and this is the first disc in several hundred I've burnt that didn't automatically put the subs on, so I've not had to think about it before.

Thank you for your patience

[Woodstock]

Hmmm... obvious... with subtitles...

Do you re-process your files after ripping them, or simply play the MKV files? On disks that have multiple subtitle tracks, selecting the track to use as default is sometimes easy (there's only one track), sometimes hard (wait until you find a disk with 5 or 6 subtitle tracks!).

The default settings on MakeMKV will rip all subtitles into the file, but none of them will be flagged as "default". You can tweak some settings to change that, but that relies on flags that, frankly, are often incorrect on the disk.

I find that telling MakeMKV to simply rip them all and leave them for post-processing is best for me. Then, a quick play with VLC lets me chose the track that I want as primary, and handbrake can prioritize that track for playback, while shrinking the file with better encoding. Finally, since I'm dealing with MKV files, I pass the file through MKVToolnix to set the "default" and "forced" flags on the desired track.

I use the command-line versions of handbrake and MKVToolnix, so the command lines are grouped into batch files, since each disk set usually has 12-60 files that need the same parameters. But the GUI versions are great for just a couple of files at a time.

[mazzo]

Hmmmm I must be doing something wrong? I rip them though MKV and then opened up handbrake, went to the subs, and it does list language, but only English-- which is fine, but I know this disc has multiple languages. I selected it. tried to process it and it didn't recognise the sub at all.

Says 0: English (VOBSUB) -- only option given.

Any idea what I could be doing wrong, here? I tried adding an image here but it refused it. Says the board qota has been reached.