SubTitles

[MAYDOG]

Does anyone have a little light to shine on the subject of Ripping a movie in two different formats...... Situation is as follows..... Crouching Tiger-Hidden Dragon....I want to Rip the Movie in the English Dubbed version, and the subtitled version!!! What tools do I need, and what steps do I take???

[Vejita-sama]

First the easy part. Just rip the DVD to your HD as normal (use smartripper). Run DVD2AVI, and generate a D2V file (video) and a wav for audio track1. Then go back and generate a wav file for audio track2.

For subtitles take a look to the left under author. I normally use the VobSub filter for Virtual Dub

http://www.flexion.org/video/DVDConv/DVD2AVI/index.html

has a walkthrough (with misc extra steps). Or flask MPEG, or DVD2SVCD's subtitle filter for AVISynth (AVISynth can also run VobSub).

The problem is that while SVCDs might support selectable subtitles in theory, in practice most DVD players can't read them. Also the software you need (I-author) is next to impossible to find and isn't even being sold in the US.

http://www.vcdhelp.com/svcdsubs.htm

So you can make permanant subtitles if you want. However, SVCDs do support up to 4 audio tracks no problem.

Anyway:

1) Load apply VFAPI codec to D2V, load avi in VDub, apply VobSub filter. Frameserve to TMPGenc, encode video only to m2v file.

2) Load audio1.wav and encode to audio1.mp2 (do same with audio2.wav).

3) Run bbMPEG and mux video.m2v + audio1.mp2 + audio2.mp2 -> movie.mpg

I would suggest lowering the audio bitrate from 224kbit/s to 128kbit/s to save space. Use the vcdhelp.com bitrate calculator under Tools to figure out the video bitrate for two audio tracks.

Note sure if all the above made sense Let me know if something isn't clear.

[poopyhead]

hrm...128 kbits for audio...isn't that gonna degrade the audio quality....192 kbit is for regular audio CDs...and 224 kbit is SVCD standard...but 128 kbit would be too low? quality?