Adding Subtitles to a dvd

[TioSolid]

Hi, I made a dvd some time ago with some movies from my computer.. its a full compilant dvd authored with dvdmaestro, but now I want to add a subtitle to it. How do I re-author the dvd without the need to reencode the video/audio again? (the slow part.. ;/)

[bobkart]

Extract the already encoded audio/video from the old DVD.

[TioSolid]

yea.. thats the question :P
how?
I can freely copy the .VOB files.. but how do I edit them to know where each "thing" starts? is there any way to direclty import a .VOB to maestro for example?

[bobkart]

The VOB files need the MPEG2 video and audio (whatever format) demultiplexed out of them.

Any number of applications can do this. SmartRipper for example. This is the equivalent of ripping a CD, except for a DVD. Not dealing with the CSS encryption though, just a straight demux.

[TioSolid]

Thanks! Just to be sure.. since the movie is only one movie file, splited in chapters, I will just rip it to a plain .AVI file and reauthor the DVD with it?

[bobkart]

AVI? It won't be an AVI file. MPEG2. Same as what you had before you authored it the first time.

Actually when I Use SmartRipper to do that, I will get one file that is video only and another that is audio only. Together, those two files can be used to author a new DVD file structure. Or multiplexed together to make an MPEG file that can be played, for example, by WMP.

[TioSolid]

Thanks! Got the Ideia!

[TioSolid]

Hi, somebody help me again! ;/
I just ripped the DVD with smartripper to a m2v and a ac3 file. but when i try to import then to Maestro I get the following error:
"Temporal references in GOP 5813 out of sequence"

and while importing the AC3 file i get:
"Cannot locate a frame SYNC word at an expected byte offset."

How can I solve this problem?

[manono]

Put the entire DVD on your hard drive using DVDDecrypter set for File Mode. Demux the movie using PGCDemux. Convert the subs to SUP format. How you do it depends partly on what format they're in now. If in SRT or IDX/SUB formats, you can use the latest SubtitleCreator. Mux using Muxman (why use Maestro for a simple job?). Add in the M2V, the audio, the SUP format subs, and the chapters (Celltimes.txt into File->Import Chapters). Mux.

That's one way, anyway. Test when done. Adjust the colors, if needed, in PGCEdit or DVDSubEdit. If you have menus you want to keep, "Replace" the original movie on DVD - the one without the subs - using the "Replace" button in VobBlanker. If there were no subs originally, after doing that you'll have to "turn on" the subs in PGCEdit. There are several guides for this using other methods:

https://forum.videohelp.com/viewtopic.php?t=267417