Backup Blu Ray with partial subtitles

[eon_designs]

How can you do this -

I have come across a few films that do this: Trying to back up The Day the Earth Stood Still and Slum Dog for example, part of the way through the film there are some subtitles when the characters talk in a different language but the rest of the time they speak in English.

When I back up the film none of these subtitles show. If I choose to include the English subtitles then subtitles show up all the time regardless of the language being spoken.

How do you get just the selective subtitles?

I have tried both FAB6 and BD Rebuilder.

Any suggestions?

[jman98]

In DVD and presumably BluRay (I only know for sure about DVD), these are called "forced subtitles" and are set up by your authoring software. Ripping essentially takes away the ability to force them on at specific times. THe only solution I can think of off the top of my head is for you to rip all the English subtitles and then edit them to remove everything but what you want to see. Since you don't say what your final output is, I can't really offer better advice than that. If your final output is MKV, for example, I don't know of any way to force subtitles on at specific times.

[mrswla]

Normally on these kind of discs there are multiple english subtitles. Most of the time the english subtitles(forced) for foriegn languages is the last subtitlle. So if you only want the english subtitles when they are speaking in a different language, then in bdrb select the last english subtitle. A bd-re is good to have so that you can test before your final burn.

[eon_designs]

used BD Rebuilder and found the subs that I wanted - turned out to be the second one.

However, BD Rebuilder did not automatically set these subs to play straight away. You still have to manually choose them when the disc is playing.

Is there any way of having this subtitle track automatically chosen from the start?

BD Rebuilder took a very long time - but quality looks fantastic. Wish they could get it to work with CUDA graphics cards as it would really speed things up.

Thanks. eon

[mrswla]

What software are you using to rip the discs?