Rebuilder and forced subtitles

[writersblock29]

Hello,

I'm attempting to back up The DaVinci Code, R1, and since Disk One only has the movie--plus tons of previews that I don't care to keep--I'd like to run a movie-only encode on it. As far as I can tell, there's only one English subtitles folder for the main feature... but there are forced translation subs that normally appear in the movie. If I were to let DVD Rebuilder chew on this as a movie-only encode, would Rebuilder maintain the forced subs? I know that Rebuilder needs to re-write the IFO files from scratch, so I was wondering if this would present a problem.

Thanks in advance for any help! :D

[James35]

Those subtitles would be hardcoded and cannot be removed .

[jdobbs]

Hmmm... no, the forced subs would be present -- but probably wouldn't be enabled for playback in a movie-only encode. A precommand probably sets it -- and DVD-RB would have no way of knowing that unless it emulates playback on the original. That would be a major undertaking.

You may want to do "Movie and Menus" for that one. The commands are retained that way.

[writersblock29]

@Jdobbs

I don't know how I overlooked "movie and menus" mode... I'll give that a shot. Thanks!

@James35

I've got a couple of older disks where the translations are in the videostream itself... man, I loved that! I wish it were still done that way (if it is, I sure haven't seen it in awhile). Thanks anyway for the reply!

[setarip_old]

I've got a couple of older disks where the translations are in the videostream itself... man, I loved that! I wish it were still done that way (if it is, I sure haven't seen it in awhile).The recently released "Archangel", for one...

[dialysis1]

I just did that movie with DVD-Rb (movie only with subs). There is no problem. The forced subs are mixed with the regular subs.

[blutach]

Easy way to do this (if there is a "forced stream" and not all of them are labelled forced) is with RipIt4Me in movie only mode. It gives you the option to set the precommand for which audio stream to default to and which subtitle stream to turn on.

Then process in DVD Rebuilder (http://dvd-rb.dvd2go.org/) in full disk mode.

Regards

[dialysis1]

One of my standalone players sometimes shows subs even though I choose not to. What I did with this movie was make some changes in DVDSubedit. First I made all subs transparency clear. Then saved all modifications. Then I chose to view only forced subpics. I then made all forced subpicts transparency opaque. Then saved all modifications. Now only the forced subpicts show.

[yamyam]

On the subject of forced subpics id like to hardcode them if at all possible, is there a way to do this with dvd rebuilder, maybe add an extra line or two to the avisynth scripts.

Thanks

[~bT~]

I've never done this but I think if u extract the subs from the DVD and then load it in the filter editor with f: parameter, should work.


LoadPlugin("X:\path\to\vsfilter.dll")

f:TextSub("X:\path\to\subtitle.srt") # for SRT, SSA and ASS

or

f:VobSub("X:\path\to\subtitle.sub") # for SUB/IDX

[m1ckran]

Yet another method is to use DVD Shrink in Reauthor Mode, set it to no compression and set it to show the required subtitle stream or even set it to switch of the subtitles if you wish.

All DVD Shrink does in these cases is to set a precommand in the IFO file as mentioned by jdobbs.

[yamyam]

Thanks for the replies, i know about adding a pre command in the ifo but im looking at hardcoding the subs, the one method i tried was using vobsub with *.sub files extracted with vsrip & using vsfilter heres my dvd rebuilder script:

#------------------
# AVS File Created by DVD Rebuilder
# VOBID:01, CELLID:17
#------------------
LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\DVD Rebuilder 0.98.2\DGDecode.dll")
mpeg2source("F:\D2VAVS\V01.D2V")
trim(74202,76564)
LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\DirectVobSub\vsfilter.dll")
VobSub("F:\subtitle")
ConvertToYUY2()

I tried using the f: switch but avisynth kept saying syntax error but it works without it & it doesnt matter whether i use the subtitle extension or not.

This method works but my Problem is the subs are way out of sync by something like 10 seconds, how can i correct this problem ?

Or is there a way to tell avisynth to open the subs directly from the vob ?

Thanks

[~bT~]

the f: switch is only to be input into the DVD-RB filter editor not directly in the script. Look at my post above again and just use that as a base with correct paths etc.

EDIT. Stupid me! Its wont be poss mate. You'd have to split the subs up for each cell..unless you feed it into CCE manually as one file.