DVD subtitles and Avisynth restoration

[rrats]

I want to restore contents of a DVD using a few avisynth filters. But I have stumbled across one problem: subtitles

How can I rip the DVD subtitles and keep them/add them after filtering? And by that I don't mean burn them in.

[rrats]

EDIT: nevermind ".sub" is not the format i need

[Skiller]

Demux subtitles and then later add when authoring the new DVD.

Now, which subtitle formats does your authoring program support and which one is it?

Edit: Are you even intending to make a new DVD out of this? You are not being very specific.

[manono]

Demux everything (audio, video, subs, chapters) using PGCDemux. Work on the video and reauthor using Muxman. Stick back in the original DVD using the "Replace" button of VobBlanker.

Again though, as Skiller also wondered, this depends on you wanting to create another DVD. If not, explain better.

[rrats]

Demux everything (audio, video, subs, chapters) using PGCDemux. Work on the video and reauthor using Muxman. Stick back in the original DVD using the "Replace" button of VobBlanker.

Again though, as Skiller also wondered, this depends on you wanting to create another DVD. If not, explain better.

no, i am trying to make a h264 and add back original DVD subtitles.

[Skiller]

Should have mentioned that earlier.

Get SubRip and OCR the subtitles, save as SRT.
Then, later, simply add the SRT when making the MKV (using MKVToolnix for example).

The subtitles will then be selectable by the viewer.


Now you could also skip the OCR part and add the original bitmap based subtitles of the DVD in "VobSub" format (sub + idx) and use the VobSub filter for playback. It's not very common though.