Blu-ray to mp4 with subtitles?

[David22]

I know how to rip a Blu-ray to my PC but how do i get the subtitles with it? All the guides i find are way over complicated. I'm trying to do this for TV shows not a movie.

For example i rip the big bang theory with makemkv fire up videocoder/handbrake they see the subtitles and can put it into a MP4 file but you can not turn them on/off with vlc player, i think it's burned to the video.

Is there something i'm missing?

Thanks for the help!

[sneaker]

With OCR: Try to open the mkv created by MakeMKV with Subtitle Edit, then do the OCR and export to .srt. Add the .srt into HandBrake when re-encoding (untick "burn-in").

Faster without OCR: re-encode using from the MakeMKV mkv using HandBrake without any subtitles. Then use MKVToolNix GUI to open both MakeMKV mkv and HandBrake mkv/mp4 and select HandBrake video+audio but MakeMKV subtitle (i.e. untick the tracks you don't need). Then you can turn them on/off in VLC.


(For some reason HandBrake seems to only support burn-in if you open PGS-in-MKV.)

[Selur]

Alternatively to OCR one can also use BDSup2Sup++ to convert the subtitle to idx/sub subtitles.

[David22]

Alternatively to OCR one can also use BDSup2Sup++ to convert the subtitle to idx/sub subtitles.

Nothing does it automatically since i have the disc? I don't mind paying since i have so many to do.

I did get it to work but the words would show to soon.

[video.baba]

MP4 output + BITMAP subtitles = You are not going to be happy
Realistic Options:
1. Use MKV output container.
2. Burn them into the video (MP4 output container), permanently.
3. Search and download TEXT based subtitles.
4. OCR the subtitles to text.
5. Make a subtitle file from scratch

[David22]

MP4 output + BITMAP subtitles = You are not going to be happy
Realistic Options:
1. Use MKV output container.
2. Burn them into the video (MP4 output container), permanently.
3. Search and download TEXT based subtitles.
4. OCR the subtitles to text.
5. Make a subtitle file from scratch

Yuck to much trouble

[Selur]

As a side note, since I have not problem with mp4 and idx/subs, if you have a mkv file with mp4 audio&video in it and pgs subtitles you can use Hybrid to remux to mp4 and at the same time convert the subtitles from pgs to idx/sub.
Here's how that can be done:

1. Start Hybrid.
2. Set default paths. (Config->Paths)
3. Tell Hybrid to passthrough subtitles. (Config->Automation->Passthrough streams)
4. Set audio&video to passthrough. ('Base->Processing->Video->passthrough','Base->Processing->audio->passthrough (all)')
5. Enable automatic output name generation. ('Base->Generate')
6. Load the source file. ('Base->Open file')
7. Create a new entry into the 'Job-Queue'. ('Base->Add to queue'
8. Start processing ('Jobs->Queue->Start')

Hybrid will then passthrough audio&video, convert the subtitles from pgs to idx/sub using BDSup2Sub++, multiplex everything together into an mp4 file.
Especially older devices (and software players) might not support mp4s with idx/sub subtitles, for me all my devices support it so it's a solution for me, but it might not be for you.

Cu Selur