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11th October 2010, 23:39 | #765 | Link |
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Anyone else finding that titles reduced in size, regardless of resize filter used, occasionally gets a jitter (like it's shuddering between scan lines)?
I recommend that Lanczos should be used preferentially, it is still the best resize filter. Also, if you are converting something like PAL to NTSC, add a resize value (X and Y) of 1.2. Otherwise the resizing distorts the text quite badly and effects legibility. Does anyone know if this program is still being developed? There hasn't been an update in quite a while. Last edited by DoctorM; 13th October 2010 at 22:14. |
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Hmm. Okay so the issue is weirder than I thought.
I found a thread that recommended moving the subtitles up 1 line if there is a jitter... this did not fix the issue, but revealed another problem. Normally, when using DVDSubEdit to move subtitles, the pop-up preview is unaltered by an adjustment to the subpicture vertical position. This is not true of titles resized with BDSup2Sub. The title will actually shake up and down by 1 pixel in the preview box as you adjust the position. Any odd pixel move causes the top of the subtitle to be cut off (and it may appear in many as random lines at the bottom of the subpicture's area on DVD playback). Something is seriously wrong. I suspect overcropping around the subs might be the problem. The top and bottom are cropped flat to the top most/bottom most pixels of the titles. I'm not sure that explains jittering when I play back on standalone DVD players, or why the jitter can actually be duplicated manually in DVDSubEdit. I could really use a suggestion here, because this is a deal breaker. If BDSup2Sub can't generate subtitles stable for all conditions, it's useless. Last edited by DoctorM; 13th October 2010 at 22:24. |
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I'm new to using BDSup2Sub and I ran into a problem on my first try. First, I used MakeMKV to rip Avatar from my Blu-ray disc. Then I used mkvtoolnix's mkvextract to extract the PGS subtitle track to a .sup file. That appeared to complete successfully. But when I try to read in that file using BDSup2Sub, the status bar zooms along and in a second or two, at about the halfway point, it bombs out with an error referring to "IndexOutOfBoundsException".
Any ideas? I tried re-extracting the PGS subtitle track twice (in case something got corrupted the first time), and tried BDSup2Sub on two different computers, but I still got the same results. I can confirm that the embedded subtitle track in my MKV file works when I play it via XBMC Dharma under Windows 7 (except for an XBMC bug which leaves the subtitles on-screen too long). |
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Based on a quick Google search, it sounds like MKVcleaver is just a GUI skin for mkvextract which, per my original post, is the tool I previously used to extract the .sup file, but which BDSup2Sub bombed out on. I'll try out eac3to later today, unless someone has other recommendations. At this point I don't know if my problem is that mkvextract is failing to properly extract the file, or BDSup2Sub is not working properly. It's also possible that whatever version of MakeMKV I was using at the time I originally ripped this movie didn't do something quite right with the subtitle data. Yesterday I did a lot of Googling on the subject, but didn't find anyone else reporting getting this IndexOutOfBoundsException error with this movie's subtitle track, so I'm not sure what could be wrong.
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Hmm. It is possible MakeMKV is doing something weird to your subtitles, but I don't know, this is the first I've heard of it.
If you are willing to post the SUP file, I'll take a look at it (I can't guarantee I'll know what I'm doing though.) |
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DoctorM, thanks for the offer. I figured I'd give eac3to a try first, but according to their wiki, I don't even see any claim that it's capable of extracting PGS/.sup subtitle data. If it can definitely do this, can someone provide me with the proper command line options for this, or point me to a web page that provides that info?
Edit: Nevermind, I figured it out. Trying it now. Will report back. Last edited by Scott R; 16th October 2010 at 23:38. |
25th October 2010, 23:29 | #776 | Link |
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Since it doesn't look like there's any help coming, can anyone tell me if any older versions of S2S doesn't crop the subtitles so closely on import?
Edit: For that matter, is anything older than 3.9.6 even available anywhere? Last edited by DoctorM; 25th October 2010 at 23:38. |
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If the .SUP track inside the .mkv is fubarred by MakeMKV (quite possible; not every program gets it right; and even somewhat older versions of eac3to sometimes screwed up the timings), then you could try and restore the timings, but you're really just better off re-ripping your Blu-Ray.
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@asarian
Hi! Quote:
Both (presently freeware) MakeMKV and (presently freeware) DVDFab Passkey are also capable of ripping/decrypting "Full Disc" Blu-ray discs... |
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