Removing closed captions (subtitles)

[CAS99]

Hi all,

I'm new to this forum and fairly technologically illiterate. Some help would be greatly appreciated!

I have an LG Blue-Ray 250GB Hard Disk Drive Recorder with an ageing Soniq HD TV. I use this to record tv programs and then I transfer these to an external Seagate and Samsung (which is a reb-randed seagate) 500GB and 1TB external hard drives.

The problem I have is with the embedded closed captions. Basically I record the TV program and when I do no closed captions (subtitles) are showing (though they are usually an option with most Australian TV broadcasts for the hearing impaired). If I play the recorded program from the internal LG hard drive it is fine - it plays without the subtitles. But, if I copy the program to either of my external hard drives and then play the move from there, the closed captions show and cannot be hidden or removed by using the remotes or any menus/options from either the TV or the Blue Ray HDD Recorder. It's driving me crazy!

If I view the file on my laptop it appears as a single ".ts" file. If I play it from my external hard drive on my laptop or copy it to my laptop and play it from there, the subtitles do not show. However, I'd prefer to play it from my TV (even if I have to somehow extract the closed captions from the file).

Is there any way that I can quickly and easy remove the closed captions or prevent them from playing back?

I tried to use Clumpco subtitle extractor program but it just seemed to create a new subtitle file without removing the original from the program. When I look at the newly created subtitle file it appears to be empty (ie zero bytes).

I also tried Subtitle Edit program, but it didn't recognise there being any subtitles (not sure if there is a difference between subtitles and closed captions?)

I also tried Project X, which seemed to demux the files to create a audio, visual and .sl file but again when I copied it back to my external hard drive and played it on the TV it was still subtitled. I tried to follow the guide on https://forum.videohelp.com/threads/283129-Does-anyone-know-how-to-extract-subtitles-from-ts but I got a bit lost so I don't know if I did it right or if this is the program I need to use.

Incidently, if anyone has a tip as to how to easily remove ads from the program I'd be interested!

Thanks heaps!!

[Selur]

you could try to remux with ffmpeg:

ffmpeg -i "path to input" -vcodec copy -acodec copy "path to output"

iirc. it should drop the cc info,..

[netmask56]

Subtitles on Australian TV are not closed captions they are teletext subtitles on page 801.

Use ProjectX to demux the audio, video and subtitle track (srt) Then put the the srt file aside if you don't need it.

Then remux just the audio and video in an MPEG editor like MPEG StreamClip or Womble etc. To set up ProjectX see my signature for a link. If you really don't need subs then you could change the settings in "Presetting tab" "Output" and untick the the last three options Teletext, subpicture, Generic_vbr

To mux in MPEGStreamclip put the audio and video together in a folder with nothing else and select the video file with convert to mpg, it will pickup the audio as well.

Visit the Beyonwiz PVR forum and do a search on ProjectX, you will find heaps of information on what to do with or without subtitles.