Help needed! How to remove hardcoded Subtitles??

[lamer_de]

Hello everyone.
I got a video witch shows sometimes a logo. It's some text. I know that there are Filters for removing logos (LogoAway 3.5 and DeLogo 1.1), but i can't get them to work. Logoway just puts a bar over it and interploates the picture in this bar. Therefore, it looks crap, because you see an smeared bar. There's also a possibilty to use alpha masks, but i didn't get a good result either. DeLogo seems to be way better, Casue you can specifie the Area which should be cleared easily. But it removes everything else than the subtitle :-( I added a pic so you can see a sample of the text i want to remove(i don't want to remove this picture actually, but it demonstrates my problem and i didn't mamaged to clear thath subtitle either). My idea of an ideal remove would be something where only the thext is smeared out (or remved completly ;-)

Any help is appreciated,
lamer_de

http://www.abi00.de/luo/inuki.jpg

[diet]

I guess it will be an iligal chinese copy. If it is, well... it not realy a dvd. If you wacht it the quality won't be as good as a normal dvd. De subtitels are in de movie itself... so... its not realy SUBtitels.. just titels?

[lamer_de]

Yeah, maybe. But i'm afraid that this doesn't helps me alot. I only got this copy and i want to remove the damn (sub)title.
Thats why i made the caption hardcoded, btw ;-)

Anyone???

CU,
lamer_de

[diet]

it's not posible dude.. get over it. If you rip de vobs and you watch them from your hd with mediaplayer or with powerdvd, you shouldn't see subtiltels. If you do see them, it's not posible or you should have the luck that the subtitels are below the move so you can cut it off.

[lamer_de]

Ok, you got me wrong. The picture is actually not from a DVD, it's a DivX already. And somehow it has to be possible, i'm just to dumb to use the Filters. I know that it isn't possible to remove subtitles which are changing, but this one isn't changing.

CU,
lamer_de

[theReal]

When the subtitles are encoded into the movie, there is no way to remove them - because there is nothing "behind" those titles, they are part of the picture!
The only way to "remove" them is logoaway, which of course will leave some kind of bars because the program can only speculate what colors had to be in that area.

[dinesh]

One suggestion, like some others do. Use the Delogo filter over your subtitles, sure you get a bar which blends the surrounding colours and which is clearly evident. You can apply your own subtitles in your native language if you can get hold of the .sub or whatever files for the divx. This can help cover up the result of the DeLogo filter. Sorry if this seems a tough proposition.

[DivXerouS]

This is kind of a weird problem..I managed to get rid of this stupid logo this idiot put in the middle of the screen, he put 3 of his email address..3 not even 1 but freakin 3..the good thing was that it was in the opening credits and the background was black to I managed to make it look nice and emailed that jackass to do some professional work and instead I decided to put "MY" logo on it. I made it look nice and everything but Im having trouble saving. It says I HAVE to put the video in Full Processing Mode for it to work but it's gonna take up like 50 GIGS..is there anyway around this problem..?

[Hectic]

dude...give it all up...the fact that there's all these logos and 3 e-mail adresses proves to me that the movie is crap quality anyway...it's probably been recycled a million times and you probably downloaded it from kazza...whatever the movie is, rent it and re-encode yourself..there's no was to remove all this text from it..

[manono]

Hi-

is there anyway around this problem..?

Unless you specify a codec, it will be saved as uncompressed. So, go Video-Compression and choose a codec (DivX3.11, DivX5 or XviD come to mind). Then you configure the codec and you should be on your way. You'll need to plug in a bit rate which you can get from GKnot or a Bitrate Calc. If none of that made any sense to you, then there are plenty of guides on this site.

By the way, most of the people around here don't much approve of any kind of logo. I'd suggest you replace his e-mail addresses with the original black. And I concur with Hectic. Any fool that would put his e-mail or some other logo on it probably doesn't know much about encoding anyway.

[DivXerouS]

So what your saying is that I will have to compress the file for it to work..?won't that be loss of quality as well ?I didn't download it off Kazaa..it is an FTP server...and it is good quality..

[manono]

Hi-

Yep, that's what I'm saying. There's no way to get rid of his logo without reencoding at least the part that has the logo on it. Now if, as you say, the logo is only on a short portion of the beginning of the movie, then you can reencode just that short part. And yes, there will be a small, and maybe not noticeable, degradation of the video quality.

So, I would separate the opening part of the movie that includes the logo, reencode that part to fix it, and then add it back to the rest of the movie. If you've had some encoding experience, it's real easy and probably wouldn't take but a half an hour or so. If not, then you may have problems. But when doing it that way, make sure you choose the same codec as the original .avi, or else they won't join up again.

[oddball]

I'm looking for a DirectShow filter that will run realtime on playback and allow me to blank out portions of a DiVX (Like blanking out German subtitles with a black bar etc so I can overlay English ones).

Does one exist?

[morsa]

There should be a way to remove subtitles.
Anyone interested look for Restoreinpaint at Sourceforge.
It has inapinting features that should do the work very well.
The solution is to make a Vdub filter that detects the subs and then apply inpainting.

[DivXerouS]

Yeaa i figured it out..I broke the movie in 2 parts..Part 1 being the logo part and part 2 the rest of the movie..Encoded part 1 came out good and joined it back with part 2..converted it to a NON Standard Mpeg 2 SVCD..came out sweeeeeeeeeeeeet !:D