Replacing subtitles on a DVD

[baconharvest]

I have a DVD that has both sweedish and english subtitles. The subtitles are very inaccurate though, so I downloaded a .srt subtitle file online and edited the text to my liking. Now I want to only extract the DVD video and audio onto my hard drive and add the .srt subtitle file to it. Then I want to burn the dvd so that it only plays the movie (no menus at all) with my subtitles, and gives me the option to turn the subtitles off when I want to.

Sidenote - it would be good if I could preview the dvd file before burning it, as I don't want to waste many dvds.

:thanks:

[CoNS]

Hi baconharvest and welcome to the forum. :)

The question you're asking has been discussed numerous times before in this forum section. You can find a lot of info about it by using the search function.

There's also a good guide, which comes with the freeware program SubtitleCreator (look in the Documentation folder after install). And there's even a good guide in one of the sticky threads in this forum section...

Anyways, here's the method I use:

1. Make sure you have the DVD as vob, ifo and bup files in a VIDEO_TS folder on your harddisk.
2. Demux the video and audio streams of main movie using PgcDemux (http://jsoto.posunplugged.com/dvdtools.htm) (remember to also save the celltimes.txt file with all the chapters).
3. Create a SUP file out of your .srt text subtitles, using SubtitleCreator (https://sourceforge.net/projects/subtitlecreator/). (DVD subtitles are bitmap images, not plain text)
4. Mux the video/audio streams together with your new subtitles, using MuxMan (http://www.mpucoder.com/Muxman/).
5. Test in a software player. I recommend the freeware player Media Player Classic (http://sourceforge.net/projects/guliverkli/).

Good luck!

[Paddington]

In SubtitleCreator, you can also use the Tools|DVD wizard option. It will ask you for the location of PgcDemux and MuxMan, and automate the process CoNS described for you.