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dede95064
1st November 2002, 22:08
after having gone through the forums and guides here, i still am having a sub problem.

here's what i'd like to do: i have some anime dvds that have about 3 or 4 episodes on each dvd. the thing is, these episodes are encoded on the dvd as one large movie instead of individually. now, i can manage to encode the first episode with subs perfectly. if i try any of the following eps., the subs are way off by the previous episode. that is, i get the subs from the first episode on the second/third/fourth episode. now i know you can use sub station alpha or the subresync tool in gknot to fix the exact times. but when it comes to either, i haven't a clue on how to use each of these to fix the times. and i was wondering if there is an easier way going about this.

SO, if i wanted to encode just the third episode with subs for instance, and i want it to be say, 233MB using gknot, what's the best way to do this? i've tried encoding all the episodes with the subs as one big movie, but when i go to cut them up to fit them on a cd, the file sizes vary greatly as well as the quality for each episode.

so what do i have to do to get a consistent file size as well as the proper subs for each episode??? :confused:

by the way, i use gknot for the encoding.

LeonMcNichol
2nd November 2002, 01:23
If you had done a search, you would have come across this (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=36465) thread. Just read it and use the dvd2avi that comes with it for the timestamp. Then mearly cut that off the begining.

RadicalEd
2nd November 2002, 04:35
Not to mention SmartRipper and Decrypter are capable of ripping by chapters and the episodes are most likely different chapters on the DVD. Then you can transcode separately and then if you really need to, join them again. Of course in doing this you're losing some VBR robustness but then you said that you want more eqivalent file sizes anyway so this is exactly what you'd want to do.