Permanently embedded subtitles...

[firetoad]

OK, I have read every guide that I could find out there regarding subtitles and this seems to be an iffy or somewhat unfrequented area. There are plenty of movies out there with either forced subtitles in a main subtitle track or a separate subtitle track for "alien" subtitles. Anyway, I have two questions...

1) For movies that do not require re-encoding due to size, is there a way to turn forced subtitles or the extra "alien" subtitles on so that they are always on? That, I have noticed that using DVDDecrypter and IFOEdit to rip and recreate, this option is lost somewhere along the way. The subs are still there, but have to manually be turned on.

2) For movies that require re-encode, is there a way to permanently attach these subtitles not using subrip and in turn OCR. I know that VOBSub captures the subtitles and bitmaps and I was wondering if there was a way to incorporate that. I currently use DVD2SVCD with CCE 2.5 for my re-encoding (SpruceUp for authoring) and they work flawlessly with the exception of the subtitles.

Any help, insight or a different approach would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!!

[donpedro]

Could you please post some example DVDs that have this "alien" track so I can play with it. Post more if you have so I can pick one that I like

[VidHack]

1. Check out Doom9's IFOedit forum, I remember reading about that very issue, its in a post on 'green blocky subtitles'. To turn on or off the subtitles, it was a simple change in the .IFO file. Some Hex value change.

2. DVD2SVCD, if I remember correctly will rip subs for you, you could modify the .AVS script to embed them in the encoded video stream. Also, under the DVD2SVCD forum at Doom9.org, there was a DVD2SVCD hack add-in app that does it for you, I Think? Check it out.

VidHack