Subtitles only for sections of foreign dialogue not whole movie

[DVDHack]

I have been playing around with 'Hunt for Red October' to try and find a way of ripping subtitles in English for just the Russian sections.

Can anyone tell me how. I can get subtitles all the way through but not just for the Russian sections as occurs on the DVD when you play it back in English.

A lot of movies have short sections of foreign dialogue with subtitles for just those bits so I would like to get this working.

Thanks a lot.

[kevjapan]

Hey DVDHack, I have no direct experience with ripping the Hunt for Red October, but other DVD's which have small parts in other foreign languages (i.e. Braveheart), seem to have the subtitle encoded right into the picture of the movie. I think, if you just tell DVD2SVCD not to rip subtitles I bet the English subtitles for the Russian parts will be there.

[DVDHack]

Not sure if that's consistent. I did another movie that had a bit of Mexican in it without any subtitles and the English subs for those bits were not there. There are some movies where the english translation is persistent in minor foreign sections but I have found those to be in the minority - usually few other subs on the DVD. I believe 'The Mummy' is another example where you don't get the minor bits subtitled.

It makes sense not to have the minor english bits there persistently for people wanting to watch the movie in, say Japanese - you wouldn't want two lots of subs. Likewise I don't want subs in english all the way through - I find myself practicing my reading skills.

[Dropbear]

I can confirm that the Mummy does not have the subtitles as part of the original video stream. This is another movie for which it would be great to just have the subs in the 'foreign language' bits.

[Infinite_stupidity]

Originally posted by Dropbear
I can confirm that the Mummy does not have the subtitles as part of the original video stream.

What version of the Mummy do you have? Cuase I got the 2 disc Ultimate Edition, and on both discs (Widescreen and Full Frame) the English subs for the foriegn dialouges are hard coded into the video, i.e. permanent subtitles not seperate streams.

Though I have seen a movie like that in the past whose name escapes me atm, and its foriegn scene english subs were in thier own subtitle stream so all was needed on that was to rip that stream and to encode them into the video. Then on all the foriegn speaking bits, you got perfect hard coded english subs.

[DVDHack]

Anyone had thoughts on this one....

[markrb]

I know that in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang their is an option to turn on subtitles only during the singing scenes. These are setup as a different subtitle stream. If you have the option to choose what stream you can use I would try each stream on a test chapter that uses the subtitles.

I am sorry I can't be of more help,

Mark

[Linux]

I think that this is up to the dvd maker.

Many DVD for the scandinavian market have beside se/no/dk often two english subtitle streams.
None of them are what you are asking for.

One is "ordinary" English all the time.

The other is English for hearing impaired which add text that say "someone is knocking at the door".

What you need is a third stream that said "English when needed".

I have also seen movies that have hardcoded English subtitle when there are foreign dialogue which is rather stupid when I use another selectable subtitle on top.