subtitles again!

[rubyhawk]

Hi again, Trying to rip subtitles from a dvd, its a region 3 with korean being first choice, then english titles, followed links, tried subrip, virtualdub etc, either won't start or I get korean! Now I seemed to have ripped it using clonedvd, it works on hard drive, but now what I don't have a dvd writer only cd, I can't even save to disk to playback on pc,tried DVD2VCD, then TMPGEnc, film arrives but no *x%*$*? subtitles!
Help i'm getting desperate.
Thanks.

[theDruid]

I think you're getting confused with what you're trying to do.

Do you want to add the subtitles to the video permanently? If so, you can convert to VCD, to burn on your CD-burner.

If you want the subtitles to remain selectable, then you'd have to go for SVCD.

If you want to add the subtitles permanently, you'll need to use a filter to add them to the video, and encode to MPEG-1 (VCD) or MPEG-2 (SVCD).

VirtualDub is a good tool for doing this, as is AVISynth (although the latter is probably not so user-friendly, as it's a scripting language).

There are many guides on this site as to how to add permanent subtitles.

If you want SVCD with selectable subtitles, there are other guides for that - for one method, I know DVD2SVCD is capable of ripping subititles from your DVD and adding them to the SVCD it outputs.

Selectable subtitles are not supported on all DVD standalones which can play SVCD's - my player doesn't support them. Maybe you won't care if you're going to watch on your PC anyway.

(In fact, if you only want to watch on your PC, there are other options - such as converting to an MPEG-4 format such as DivX. I think you'd have to make the subtitles permanent for this.)

Decide what format you want to go for ("can't even save to disk to playback on pc".. is not very specific really), and whether you want to make the subtitles permanent or selectable.

Then look at the guides for subtitles.

cheers,
mcdruid.

[rubyhawk]

Thanks for that, to be honest I am getting totally confused + I am a female newbie!!
I am trying to do permenant subtitles to play on dvd player. I will have another read/go, but be warned I will be back!
Cheers again.