Needs help with subtitles

[Wayne 394]

Hope one of you guys can help me out! I'm a newbie here and pretty much a technophobe!

A couple of days ago, I discovered that I can rip DVDs I own to the HD of my laptop. Great! I spend a fair bit of time away from home, so it would be useful to have a few of my favourite films on my laptop to save me having to take DVDs with me. I looked on the web and found a free program to do this. It was Freemake Video Converter. It worked great, ripping a couple of films to my HD in AVI format. All was well until I tried doing Kill Bill, which has sections of subtitled language. It didn't include these subtitles and I can only see how to add subtitles to the whole film, not just small sections where required.

Is there a free program I can use to do this? Do I have to buy a program?

I need help, but please keep it simple for me to understand.

Thanks in advance!

[newpball]

It is much better to put a DVD as is on a HD, either in folders or as an ISO.

[hech54]

All was well until I tried doing Kill Bill, which has sections of subtitled language. It didn't include these subtitles and I can only see how to add subtitles to the whole film, not just small sections where required.

This is a common problem with movies like this, I've never seen and easy, sure-fire solution.

[Wayne 394]

It is much better to put a DVD as is on a HD, either in folders or as an ISO.

How would I put a DVD on 'as is'?

[Kerry56]

If you don't mind having copies virtually the same size as the original DVD, you can use MakeMKV to decrypt and rip your movie to the hard drive as an MKV file. MakeMKV is free to use while in beta status though you will need to put in a new beta key each month or so. The key can be found in this thread at their forum: http://www.makemkv.com/forum2/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=1053

Using MakeMKV to rip your DVD, you will lose the original menu and extras. The forced subtitles that you are worried about may not work either, though you can keep normal subtitle streams.

If you want the entire DVD as files/folders, try ripping with TDMore Free DVD Copy. There is a direct download for this program here at Videohelp. Again, this program will give you a copy that is the same size as the original DVD. There are lots of free players that will be able to play this DVD copy on your laptop, including VLC, PotPlayer and Media Player Classic Home Cinema.

[Kerry56]

TDMore Free DVD Copy does give you the choice of making a full backup, or just the main movie in DVD-video format. If you are worried about the forced subtitles, making a full disc backup would be the safer choice. I rarely work with DVD's these days (have moved on to Blu-ray), so I don't remember working with this program and a movie that has this type of subtitle.

[johns0]

Wayne 394-In the future please use a more descriptive title for your thread instead of help me,for this time i changed your title plus i moved the thread to the subtitle forum where you can get more help and welcome to the forums.

[Wayne 394]

It sounds as though there is no simple way to do what I'm after? I've seen posts about copying and pasting .srt logs, then do this, then do that etc! Looks like I'm just going to have to have films without any foreign language parts! Was worth a try!

[Kerry56]

What? If you copy the entire movie, you'll have the exact thing that is on the disc on your hard drive. Try the TDMore program in Full Disc mode.