Ripping: Personal Use Box Set with Subtitles

03/11/2023 | Self

[CptnObvious]

ALL RIPPING IS FOR PERSONALUSE ACCORDING TO LOCAL LAWS>

With that proviso said I thought I would share some thoughts about Subtitles for box sets.

What a pain in the Butt!

First, I am convinced that the industry figures you are handicapped if you deploy subtitles. Maybe because of the various laws, but once deployed subtitles seem to be ON BY DEFAULT and you may have the option to turn them off PER USE,

This is opposite of what I want, which is OFF by default and selectable for use like on a DVD Player. So be forewarned; some hard work may be up ahead of you.

Second, not all DVDs have Subtitles. My Grizzly Adams box set came with none. My only option was to use Voice Recognition as I didn't find any on the internet.

Third, the industry has gone to graphics than use text. Thus, they can use all sorts of characters used in the various countries. If a subtitle file is not on the internet, I find I must use Optical Character Resolution (OCR) with sometimes poor results if that at all.

Fourth, AND THIS IS GOOD NEWS, if the source has Closed Captioning (CC) - Subtitles files may be easily made.

The free app NIKSE Subtitle Editor, is perfect for me when the files are not online. Else it's opensubtitles.org .

I got lucky with Addams Family and Mission Impossible and not so lucky with Murder She Wrote. the first two had CC tracks embedded, so I Handbreaked them with CC if Available and no other Subtitle options. Switching between the Titles quicky showed that these tracks were being picked up. I used Alt-A to load the Queue and Start Queue to process them.

The NIKSE Subtitle Editor made quick work, about 4 seconds per subtitle file. I don't know how to automate that yet.

Murder She Wrote was another story as there were subtitles with graphics characters and that would be a very long hard slog with NIKSE Subtitle Editor's OCR.

Fortunately, the subtitles are ONLINE at opensubtitle.org and the free EMBY VIDEO SERVER APP CAN PICK THEM UP EN-MASS.

But of course, you used a good file naming convention like:

Murder She Wrote S02E03.mp4

Season 2 Episode 3 like on opensubtitles didn't you?

Oh, and one last thing EMBY is the only way I can have subtitles off by default.

I make:

Murder She Wrote S02E03.sub

(type Subviewer 2.0) has just one blanks line.

Murder She Wrote S02E03.en.srt

has the real data (en is English, srt is type subrip).Both work together on m4 and mkv entries.

Happy box sets folks.

[Yossarian]

1. I use “MakeMKV” to turn Blu-Rays & DVDs into “.mkv” files.

Those are not re-encoded from the original disk (don’t lose quality) and have separate “tracks” for different subtitle or audio types.

You can choose to have each track extracted or not when ripping the file, and you can configure MKV playback programs to use the subtitle track when enjoying your media.

2. I originally read the thread title as “Ripping a Personal Use Sex Bot with Smalltitties”.

I guess I need glasses.

[CptnObvious]

You can choose to have each track extracted or not when ripping the file, and you can configure MKV playback programs to use the subtitle track when enjoying your media. 2. I originally read the thread title as “Ripping a Personal Use Sex Bot with Smalltitties”.

#2 is funny:)

Yes, I use Makemkv a lot, especially for the 4ks. Do you know a way to tell via Makemkv if a subtitle track is defineity CC.

Or do you know a way to pull a CC track directly from the Optical disc player?