Forced Subtitles

[sxj1704]

Hi,
I, and quite a few others it seems, are having problems in trying to get the Blu-ray rips to not only properly identify which are forced subtitles, but then have them display properly on the finished article, i.e. .MKV.

Examples of this would be the following films;

Avatar
The Da Vinci Code
Angels and Demons
The A-Team

and many many more, where some of the cast speak in a foreign language and you'd like your own (in my case, English) to appear so I know what they are talking about.

There are literally thousands of articles written on numerous websites out there, this one included, but no one has come up with an easy, straight forward and reasonably quick solution to this.

I know that there are no doubt all sorts of problems that 'natrually' prevent us from ripping a Blu-ray and just selecting exactly what we do and don't want to include in our finished product (including Forced Subs), but is there absolutely no one or no software that can do this?

I've spent the last week or so, following all of these guides with very little or no success. Using loads of software that allegedly can do the task, but nothing.

Just so you know the general process I'm taking, I first of all rip the entire Blu-ray to my HDD with MakeMKV or DVDFab or whatever, and then thats where the problem starts.

The only thing that comes close is RIPBOT264 (I did a 10 minute sample of the film with RIPBOT264 and it seemed to work, so now the full HD is taking place) and after following a very good guide of how to do this, I set it off to do the business late yesterday morning.

At this moment in time (12:45), its currently on 64.8% with 12 Hrs and 48 Mins to go, and of course at this moment in time, I don't know whether it's worked or not!

Now I'm as patient as the next person, but even if RIPBOT264 does exatly what it says on the tin, it's obviously not worth trying to do any rips with whatever, and then spend 36 Hrs just to get the Forced Subs in there.

Please please please, someone out there must have a near 100% way of doing this, and quicker, or otherwise I fear I might just loose what's left of my sanity!

Many thanks for reading this and hopefully, someone will make themselves a hero from this.

[lowellriggsiam]

If you can rip the blu_ray using makemkv then you could shrink the mkv file with handbrake check the box that says forced subs and make sure the srt is set for your language. It should work.

[fritzi93]

The forced subs are usually embedded in one of the subtitle streams. For a disc bought in your region, probably in one of the extra English subtitle streams. For most BDs, this should work:

1) Identify the main movie playlist file (*.mpls) with BDinfo. Look at total runtime.
2) Load the *mpls in tsMuxer and demux all English subtitles to a folder on your hard drive.
3) Open each in turn in BDSup2Sub. It will tell you which one has forced subs. Jot down the stream number.
4) Retain that stream.

[sxj1704]

Hi,
Thanks for the suggestions, and I'll try them. I just needed to let RipBot264 finish, which it did in 35 Hrs 24 Mins and 08 Sec! BUT, it did do the task.
I won't be trying that one again!
I'll report back just as soon as the others do their thing starting with Handbrake.
Thanks again

[jcfay]

Use Clown_BD. Once it's analyzed the disk it will present you with a list of all of the available audio subs. The forced English subs are generally (in my experience) the 2nd set of English subs (the 1st being English subs throughout the entire film). You can select only this 2nd sub track if you'd like, but depending on what you're playing back with, you could select multiple and then during playback (for instance, with VLC player) just manually select the appropriate sub track. I play my rips on a popcorn hour, so I select the sub track there. And 35 hours to do ANYTHING is insane. Clown should do the job in an hour or so.

HTH