Soft Subtitles for AppleTV (iTunes) on Windows, which DVD Ripper?

[longtom]

Hello!
I want to convert a DVD with Soft subtitles for AppleTV/iTunes.
I found only DVDRemaster for OSX and MakeMKV for Windows that is capable of doing soft subtitles for iTunes/AppleTV.
All others are doing burned in subtitles (even in Handbrake when Burned in is not checked!)

Anyone found a good DVD ripper for doing Soft subtitles?

[Wolfen]

Idk I use Handbrake and just add the subtitle but don't check anything and when played in potplayer i can turn the subs off if i want to.

[Selur]

If MakeMkv does the job, it might be worth a try to compile the Linux Version on Mac OS X,...
(wondering what MakeMKV does, since I thought AppleTV/iTunes doesn't support mkv)

[longtom]

Sorry, MakeMKV is not compatible with iTunes/AppleTV, therefore i am searching...

[Selur]

Okay, you probably need to:
a. convert the normal picture based subtitles using a OCR program (SubRip&Co)
b. convert the video to H.264 and aac (you might need to downmix to stereo, if iTunes does not support 5.1 audio) inside a mp4 container, with a .m4a extension
c. make sure that during muxing to mp4 the flags iTunes needs are enabled
Most tools I know of can't do step 1, since sadly there are no command line ocr tools (since ocr normally strongly relies on user inputs to fix errors).