HELP: Hardcoding Subs into X264 MKV Without Loss

[archy141]

Can someone please offer guidance on how i can hardcode subs into X264 MKV's with no or at least minimal quality loss ?

I would like to keep the resultant file in the same format of x264 in MKV. There are many tools and i just don't know where to begin. I have had a bash at doing this with HDC but not sure if i'm going about it in the right way to maintain quality of original encode. My thinking was to simply get the bitrate of the original MKV with MediaInfo and than 2-pass VerySlow re-encode with additional 500mbps to the bitrate.

I have a fairly powerful Q9550 system with Win7 X64. so should be capable of transcoding. Please offer advice & guidance.

[AMED]

do they have to be hardcoded?

can you not add the subtitle to the mkv with mkvtoolnix and force it to be on?

[archy141]

Yes they need to be hard coded so that PS3MS can stream the MKV using TsMuxer to the PS3 without need of transcoding. Subtitles are not supported with this method.

[Inspector.Gadget]

Start again from the original disc and do it in Avisynth so the final file will retain more visual quality.

[archy141]

Start again from the original disc and do it in Avisynth so the final file will retain more visual quality.

That is something i have considered but I don't want to have to go through the whole process from ripping the Blu-ray's again and also I'm little short on storage as well.

So what is the best I can achieve with just re-encoding the videos I already have ? Any particular X264 settings or method i could be using ?

[Inspector.Gadget]

I'm little short on storage as well.

Well, if you delete the existing versions, you'll be exactly where you were.

[creamyhorror]

That is something i have considered but I don't want to have to go through the whole process from ripping the Blu-ray's again and also I'm little short on storage as well.
If you re-encode the videos, it'll take you as long as it would to encode from the ripped Blu-rays again.

I think you should just spend $100 on a better MKV player than the PS3.

[AMED]

will it play the subtitles if you use .mp4?

[woah!]

i used suptitle just recently to keep the avatar forced subs from the blueray sup file.

SupTitle("G:\AVATAR_FORCED_exp.sup") in my script and this was the result:

http://img191.imageshack.us/img191/3852/81672494.th.jpg (http://img191.imageshack.us/i/81672494.jpg/)



if you are using sup bluray subs it should do what you want...

http://www.zachsaw.co.cc/?pg=suptitle_pgs_avisynth_plugin