Convert DVD to some supported format but with Closed Captioning

[dbimtb]

Hi.

I have some TV shows (CBS), for example "Becker" that I wanted to do the following with (since the HDMI on the blue ray player does not support closed captioning, that is the reason why - and this little blue ray player is a nice fit in the room where TV is. The TV is panasonic Viera and I do see that there are digital options for closed caption (primary/secondary and some others but that doesn't work)).

The BD Player is very basic - http://store.sony.com/blu-ray-disc-player-zid27-BDPS1100/cat-27-catid-EOL-Blu-ray-DVD-...ternet-Players

So here it goes;

Convert Entire "title" of DVD (6-7 episodes) into a file that is playable on that BD player, but convert 4:3 aspect ratio to 16:9 ratio if BD won't strech it automatically (I don't care about the actual strech of video).

Preserve Closed Caption data and I don't mind if I basically "staple" it to actual video.

Save the file to a USB flash drive (now I wouldn't mind dumping an entire season on 1 Flash disk 16 Gb).

Be done with it.

I ordered also NCIS episodes (as a Christmas gift) which she loves and would like to do the same thing.

If not possible, I guess I could figure something out with a regular DVD Player and connect it via RCA (I noticed that Component video also may not support closed captioning but RCA should).

Thanks,

[Baldrick]

Your sony supports mkv and mp4 so you can try vidcoder or handbrake and include the closed captions from dvd. Make a test mp4 and mkv clip/epsiode and see if it works. In Handbrake import the dvd/dvd folder and click on the subtitle tab, select the closed caption. But Handbrake can't burn in the closed captions but the bluray player might be able to see them in a mp4 or/and mkv.

You can also try vidcoder, after you imported the dvd click on the subtitle-button and see if you can hardcode/burn in subs( I have no tried it and as it's based on handbrake I doubt it).

[usually_quiet]

Hi.

I have some TV shows (CBS), for example "Becker" that I wanted to do the following with (since the HDMI on the blue ray player does not support closed captioning, that is the reason why - and this little blue ray player is a nice fit in the room where TV is. The TV is panasonic Viera and I do see that there are digital options for closed caption (primary/secondary and some others but that doesn't work)).

The BD Player is very basic - http://store.sony.com/blu-ray-disc-player-zid27-BDPS1100/cat-27-catid-EOL-Blu-ray-DVD-...ternet-Players

So here it goes;

Convert Entire "title" of DVD (6-7 episodes) into a file that is playable on that BD player, but convert 4:3 aspect ratio to 16:9 ratio if BD won't strech it automatically (I don't care about the actual strech of video).

Preserve Closed Caption data and I don't mind if I basically "staple" it to actual video.

Save the file to a USB flash drive (now I wouldn't mind dumping an entire season on 1 Flash disk 16 Gb).

Be done with it.

I ordered also NCIS episodes (as a Christmas gift) which she loves and would like to do the same thing.

If not possible, I guess I could figure something out with a regular DVD Player and connect it via RCA (I noticed that Component video also may not support closed captioning but RCA should).

Thanks,

Digital closed captioning on a TV is only available when using the TV's digital tuner to watch digital broadcasts, either clear QAM cable TV or ATSC channels from an antenna. The easiest way for you to view closed captions on a DVD with hardware that you already have would be to connect your a DVD player to a TV via a composite or S-Video connection and use it to play the DVDs. If buying new a BD player becomes necessary at some point in the very near future, the manuals for the LG BP340 and Panasonic DMP-BD91 indicate they have closed caption support.

You can try doing the test Baldric suggests. If it works, great. If not, most Blu-Ray players that support using subtitles with media files won't play subtitles embedded into a MKV or MP4. Instead, they require subtitles to be separate files with the same name as the corresponsing video file that will be used with them. SRT subtitles are the most widely supported. mkvtoolnix using MKVExtarctGUI-2 as a GUI interface can extract embedded subtitles from MKV files created by Handbrake.

If a separate srt file doesn't work either, it is quite possible that your Blu-Ray player doesn't support the use of subtitles with media files. When I took a look at the manual for your Sony Blu-Ray player, the page that describes what is playable by the media player does not list any type of subtitles. If that is true, then the only possible way to use closed captions is to convert them to .SRT subtitles and burn them into the video. That will be more complicated. I don't know of a free easy-to-use DVD ripper-converter that can do it. You would need to use use of at least 3 programs, a DVD ripper to decrypt and copy each episode to your HDD, plus CCExtractorGUI to convert the CCs into SRT files, and an encoder to re-encode the episodes with the subtitles burned in.

[dbimtb]

Thanks guys, I actually tested this last night and it did work, so now I'll have to check if there are sync issues etc.

These are the things I did with handbrake;

1. Changed the horizontal resolution to CUSTOM / 850 - left everything else unchanged.
2. Set deinterlace to BOB (Last time I used deinterlace was a loooooong time ago so I wasn't sure which one to pick, but it does need to be done)
3. I used CCExtractor to extract the CC to srt file (the minor problem here is that when I dragged all the VOB's it messed up the order, so I did it one by one).
4. Small file gets encoded to mp4 but large file gets encoded to m4v?
5. Result file for 2.5 hours was about 1.3 Gb
6. Plugged the USB device to BD Player and played it, enabled subtitles, works fine (I'll look into changing color to yellow if possible but this is so low priority).

Big thanks, I'll definitely work on this some more, especially when NCIS DVDs get delivered unless they are made with actual subtitles instead of cc.

B.T.W. man the forum has changed a lot. I come from time when Panasonic MPEG encoder was a winner for VCD (then TMPGEnc took over and finally CCE afterwards).

Big thanks, good to be back.

[johns0]

To play video files with subs on your sony blu-ray player the srt subs need to be muxed into the file,they won't show if they are are separate files.

[usually_quiet]

If that is the case, Handbrake can produce embedded subs by itself directly from the DVD, without creating a .srt file using CCExtractor on the DVD VOBs. All someone needs to do is click on Handbrake's "Subtitles" tab, click "Add", then click "Source" and select Closed Captions. "Default" is the only check box that is enabled, and it isn't necessary to select it it.