Subtitles That Should Only Be Displayed When Foreign Language Used

[urb1972]

When I rip a DVD, and decide to re-author it, issues occur with subtitles. I am no expert at this, and it is probably a simple problem to fix, but I don't at this point know how to fix it.

On the burn of the re-authored DVD, the movie will start without menu (expectedly) but then if you bring up subtitles, you will get various English subtitle tracks. With experimentation, these are usually the effects:

1. English (either fully ON or fully OFF)
2. English (director's commentary or something like that)
3. English (ON or OFF but ONLY displayed when foreign/invented language is spoken)

Obviously what I'd like, is track 3 to be automatically coded to be ON, or whatever track contains subs that are only used for foreign languages.

The strangest example of this of late is when I ripped Eastern Promises, menu intact, it still defaults subtitles to off, even though there is occasional use of a foreign language. You then have to manually select track 4 (or something) in order to get subtitles that only come up when Russian is spoken - however, these are displayed as Hard of Hearing subtitles with the prefix "speaking in Russian" displayed each time.

Also Atonement had a similar issue; whereas even less foreign language is spoken in this, when it is used, this again is defaulted to OFF even with menus intact.

Rendition is the worst example; menu intact but swapping between English and a foreign language, and manual adjustment of subtitles needed throughout the movie.

Is there any software that can 'review' a DVD author and code the subtitles appropriately, or as I see fit?

Thanks
urb

[Baldrick]

What tool(s) are you using?

[manono]

Hi-

Is there any software that can 'review' a DVD author and code the subtitles appropriately, or as I see fit?

Yes, IFOEdit or (better and easier) PGCEdit, but you shouldn't be having the problem in the first place, as when reencoding a retail DVD it's a fairly simple matter to keep the original menus with the original subtitle settings. As Baldrick says, we'd need to know how you're doing it at the moment. All you've told us so far is that you're reauthoring the DVD. This guide may help:

http://download.videohelp.com/r0lZ/pgcedit/third_party/2cool/subtitles/subtitles_on_de...lt_pgcedit.htm