BD rip to .mp4 with foreign only subs burned in.

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[Baldrick]

Ripbot264 can burn in subs from blu-ray sources. Rip with ANyDVD. Click on ripbot264 for some guides.

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[Atak_Snajpera]

nothing has changed in that matter.

[fritzi93]

AFAIK, RipBot is going to be the easiest route for what you want to do. Here's my procedure:

1) Extract main movie with Clown_BD, and be sure to select all subtitles and the audio stream you want, probably the first English stream listed. Subtitles will be demuxed at the same time. All m2ts files making up the main movie will be joined into one.
2) Analyze the subs streams one at a time with BDSup2Sub to identify your forced subs. They will probably be embedded in another sub stream, most likely one of the English subtitle streams. Export only forced subs once identified, with no conversion of frame rate or format. Export as as a SUP file.
3) Open RipBot and click "Add". Navigate to the main movie extracted by Clown_BD and select BDMV -> Stream -> *.m2ts. RipBot will analyze and demux (yes, again) the main movie.
4) Once that's done, click video "Properties" and subtitles, then select "Build in Picture". Navigate to your exported sub stream and select it. Once RipBot has converted the sub stream, you can preview how it will look with your forced subs hardcoded into the picture. Okay.
5) Set the other options, i.e. output (MP4), audio, title, etc. Set encoding profile (I use Superfast, CRF=20, one pass, but you can do two-pass to a specific target size by choosing the appropriate bitrate (calculate it) if you like). CRF is quality-based and final size is unpredictable but that's the way to go, IMO.
6) You can always go back and edit the settings before starting the job.
7)Start the re-encode.

To change other options, such as working folder and output folder, you need to edit the INI file. RipBot is rather minimalistic, but everything needed is there. Good luck.

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[Atak_Snajpera]

I think I'll continue looking for a different solution.

good luck with that.
You won't find simpler solution than this:

1) open any .m2ts in ripbot264
2) select your playlist and ALL SUBTITLES
3) Properties -> Permanent subtitles (Build in Picture) -> Select subtitles with FORCED in filename
4) Click Preview Script to verify whether selected subtitles are showing correctly or not.

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[fritzi93]

I include the extra step of running Clown_BD first because if the main movie is split into multiple m2ts files, it joins them into one.

Am I making an incorrect assumption that RipBot will *not* automatically recognize and join together all the m2ts files of the main movie? (I confess I haven't tried it.)

At any rate, you'd still have to identify the main movie m2ts with BDinfo if you don't use Clown_BD first. And since I typically do a main movie backup to BD25 with BDRB in addition to an MKV, it's convenient to just run a driver-level decrypter like DVDFabPasskey (AnyDVDHD will do the same) in the background and rip main movie in one go from disc with Clown_BD.

Also, one can check the Clown_BD demuxed subtitles for forced subs and view them first in BDSup2Sub to decide if they're worth including in the first place. Or even delete individual entries if desired and export a new sub stream. Or reposition them, change palette, display timings, etc. Anything more elaborate than that will require something like Subtitle Workshop to create new subs, which RipBot will accept just fine.

Anyway, IMO, RipBot is the way to go for hardcoding subs into (h264) MKVs or MP4s.

[EDIT] BTW, bonnstettermark, you ought to know that the author of RipBot (Atak) accorded you the honor of responding to your thread.

[Baldrick]

Ripbot264 will automatically recognize the main movie/titles from the m2ts files. Just select the first m2ts.

[drjtech]

I think I'll continue looking for a different solution.

good luck with that.
You won't find simpler solution than this:

1) open any .m2ts in ripbot264
2) select your playlist and ALL SUBTITLES
3) Properties -> Permanent subtitles (Build in Picture) -> Select subtitles with FORCED in filename
4) Click Preview Script to verify whether selected subtitles are showing correctly or not.

This has worked for me for years. The only additional product you need is something like AnyDVD HD running in the background to handle the decryption.

-drjtech