Autostart and Alternating Subtitles???

[louv68]

Is there a way to force subtitles to start w/o having to select them on the fly from your remote? This is for movies which have several subtitled languages such as in Kill Bill vol. 1 I'd like the Japanese subtitles to start automatically and then if needed, I'd also like to be able to view the English subtitles at the same time...meaning, if I select the english subtitles, the Japanese subtitles remain. Is this even possible?

Thanks,

-LouV68

[adam]

If you are talking about with the original DVD then the answer is no. If you are making a backup, then you can open the IFO for the movie in IFOEdit and find the japanese sub stream and set it to forced. It will play by default from now on.

You can't have two subtitle streams playing at the same time. Its not possible for one thing, and even if you could then the streams would overlap each other.

The only way you could do this is if you made a whole new subtitle stream that contained both languages and you manually adjusted them so that they didn't overlap. Then you could author this into your movie.

[louv68]

Adam,

If you are talking about with the original DVD then the answer is no. If you are making a backup, then you can open the IFO for the movie in IFOEdit and find the japanese sub stream and set it to forced. It will play by default from now on.

You can't have two subtitle streams playing at the same time. Its not possible for one thing, and even if you could then the streams would overlap each other.

My question is for a backup. I understand what you're saying, but how about movies which have alternating languages throughout the film such as in Kill Bill? The subtitles couldn't overlap since only one language is being spoken at a given time; either English or Japanese. Can subtitles switch back and forth depending on the language being spoken?


Thanks

[adam]

You can set commands to switch to a new sub track at various points in a movie, but its not very practical and there is also a delay after a new stream is selected so it would be difficult to get proper playback.

A subtitle stream is nothing more than an overlay graphic. It puts a picture over the screen, whether the characters in that picture represent English or Japanese, its still just a picture. So if you see subs for different languages popping up during the movie, its probably one of two things. Either some of those subs are hard encoded into the picture, or that sub stream just contains some subs for each language. Its still just 1 subtitle stream, it just shows multiple languages in it. You'd need to analyze the DVD to see what stream contains what.

[louv68]

Adam,

What you said makes sense. Thank you for your response.

-LouV68