Encoder With Good Audio Track & Subtitle Track Flexibility?

[soonerlater]

I'm looking for an encoder with a fairly simple GUI that will permit me to select ANY combination of Audio tracks and ANY combination of subtitle sets (soft; without burning them in). I've tried a lot of stuff, but haven't found much I like.

Divx Pro 7 Divx Converter -- will let you pick any combination of audio and subtitle tracks, but doesn't allow much flexibility. And the MKV creation process added with Divx 7 crashes my pc (perhaps it needs a few more patches).

Handbrake -- will let you select up to four audio tracks, but only one subtitle track. The one and only file (an MP4) I created wouldn't play reliably even in the latest version of Video Lan Client. When VLC won't play it, you know it's crap.

AutoMKV -- limits you to one (1), two (2) or ALL subtitle tracks. There's no way to select more than two, but less than all.

CloneDVD2 -- has terrific flexibility, but only outputs mpeg-2 traditional dvd files or burns dvds.

CloneDVD Mobile -- limits you to one subtitle track.

Nero Recode -- limits you to a maximum of two audio and two subtitle tracks.

StaxRip -- limits you to a maximum of two audio and two subtitle tracks.

Can anyone recommend anything else?

[Kurtnoise]

M.e.G.U.I ?

:p

[poisondeathray]

Just encode the tracks, subs etc....with any app eg. MeGUI, then mux your special combination with mkvmerge

There is no "best" as per forum rules

[soonerlater]

M.e.G.U.I ?

I'm probably not smart enough to use MeGUI. It wants an AviSynth script to drive it and the only thing I have to create one is VirtualDubMod, which totally befuddles me. I mean, it's one thing to use Vdubmod for a quick stream copy, how do you make a script with it?

No, not smart enough. :mad:

[Atak_Snajpera]

Why do you need more than 1/2 audio streams????

[soonerlater]

Why do you need more than 1/2 audio streams????

I readily acknowledge that I'm in a very small minority, but here is why:

1. My native language is English.

2. My children attend a French school and it helps them to practice their French language skills to watch movies with the French audio track.

3. I enjoy watching a movie with the director's commentary, when available.

[Inspector.Gadget]

MeGUI is easy for that, IMO. Right click next to the uppermost tab in the audio dialog (lower part of the main MeGUI window) and add another track - you'll get a whole duplicate pane to pick options for the second (etc.) track like you get for the first. Look at this:

http://img15.imageshack.us/img15/9465/multiaudioit9.th.png (http://img15.imageshack.us/my.php?image=multiaudioit9.png)

You can do multiple subs in MKV with the Vobsubber tool or if you'd like a different format just do the usual OCR process for each and mux more than one sub with the MKV muxer.

[soonerlater]

You can do multiple subs in MKV with the Vobsubber tool or if you'd like a different format just do the usual OCR process for each and mux more than one sub with the MKV muxer.

My apologies, but whaaahuh? What do you mean by "the Vobsubber tool?" Is that something in MeGUI or are you referring to the vubsub filter for VirtualDubMod?

Are you saying that to end up with multiple subtitle tracks, I have to extract them myself somehow, then mux them into the final product?

I don't understand why -- after many hours of research -- I can't find a single program which produces MKV or MP4 files that will let me select as many or as few audio tracks and subtitle tracks as I want, then do the work for me. CloneDVD2 from Slysoft does that, but it only burns DVDs or creates the mpeg2 files you'd use to create one. Divx Converter 6 or 7 (sux) will do that, but it only creates Divx files (or, in the case of Divx 7, really bad, really out-of-sync, MKV files).

[nurbs]

He's obviously talking about megui in his whole post and so am I. Just rip your DVD and then use the d2v creator to index the video and and extract the audio tracks. Use the Vobsubber tool to extract the subtitles you want. Use the avs creator to make an avisynth script. Encode the video and the audio and then mux everything with the mkv muxer. MeGUI does what you want and apart from the encoding time itself it only takes a couple of minutes per DVD to set everything up.