How to copy video from DVD to USB and add subtitles

[Lazytexan]

I am hard of hearing and need to be able to copy video from a DVD to a USB drive and then add subtitles. My Samsung TV is capable of playing video directly from USB drives.

I tried using DVDshrink to rip the video to my computer and then copy it to the USB drive and add a subtitle file I downloaded from the internet. DVDshrink creates multiple VOB files, each less than 1 GB. The TV will play the first VOB file with subtitles but does not recognize the next VOB files as a valid video file. Even if the TV could read it, the subtitle file would need to be split and revised to get the subtitles synced with the video on all VOB files after the first.

The TV will not recognize an iso file so I cannot use that approach. I might be able to add the subtitles to the video and convert it back to an iso for burning to a DVD but I really don't want to burn a DVD for something I am only going to watch once and then throw away.

Does anyone have any experience doing this or have any suggestions I might try? Thanks.

[hech54]

My Samsung TV is capable of playing video directly from USB drives.

The word "video" is pretty vague.

[usually_quiet]

I am hard of hearing and need to be able to copy video from a DVD to a USB drive and then add subtitles. My Samsung TV is capable of playing video directly from USB drives.

I tried using DVDshrink to rip the video to my computer and then copy it to the USB drive and add a subtitle file I downloaded from the internet. DVDshrink creates multiple VOB files, each less than 1 GB. The TV will play the first VOB file with subtitles but does not recognize the next VOB files as a valid video file. Even if the TV could read it, the subtitle file would need to be split and revised to get the subtitles synced with the video on all VOB files after the first.

The TV will not recognize an iso file so I cannot use that approach. I might be able to add the subtitles to the video and convert it back to an iso for burning to a DVD but I really don't want to burn a DVD for something I am only going to watch once and then throw away.

Does anyone have any experience doing this or have any suggestions I might try? Thanks.

You should look at the TV's manual to see what it supports, but many integrated TV media players support .mpg files with external .srt subtitles.Use VOB2MPG to convert the files you ripped with DVDShrink to an .mpg file. If the DVD includes closed captioning, CCExtractor can be used on the .mpg to convert the closed captions to .srt subtitles. Some special characters like musical notes may not translate properly, and color information may need to be removed, but otherwise it can work pretty well.

[Lazytexan]

I used VOB2MPG to create a single video file and then added a downloaded subtitle file. The only other thing I had to do was reformat my USB drive from FAT32 to NTFS because of the size of the video file. Works like a charm. THANKS!

I don't really need CCExtractor since the only videos I need to do this with are the ones that do not have English subtitles available.