Batch remux VOB to MKV with chapters?

[ChiDragon]

Have: TV series on DVD, 10 eps per disc, with each episode isolated to a single VOB file under 1GB.

Want: Folder of MKV files on HDD with DVD's chapters embedded. (Also closed captions converted to subtitles, if possible.)

Any recommendations to do this as painlessly as possible?

[Chetwood]

MakeMKV, set minimum file title length to roughly episode length in seconds.

[ChiDragon]

Thanks, that was a nice 1-click solution!

Only annoyance is how the CC stream is actually stripped by MakeMKV instead of being left in so I could at least use them in VLC.

[Chetwood]

CC stream? MakeMKV usually keeps subs.

[ChiDragon]

http://www.makemkv.com/forum2/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=5175

Weirdly also mentioned in this thread (http://www.makemkv.com/forum2/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=4876) you posted in.

[Chetwood]

Yeah, I'm still waiting to see them ;)

[ChiDragon]

Sample here (http://chidragon.thedessie.com/Doom9/prt-cc-sample.ts). VLC will decode them.

[Chetwood]

The sample contains no subs, there's only MPEG2 and AC3 stream in it.

[ChiDragon]

I'm not sure why you're acting like this. If the DVD contained a subtitle stream there wouldn't be an issue.

How are closed captions different to DVD subtitles? (http://ccextractor.sourceforge.net/about-closed-captions.html)

http://code.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/668

[Chetwood]

Acting? I'm simply confused. You're talking about DVD but your sample is m2ts which is BD. And yes, CCs differ from regular subs, still they should be listed in muxing programs. I've tried CCExtractor on your m2ts and got nothing.

[ChiDragon]

It's 188-byte TS (not 192-byte M2TS) remuxed from VOB and cut with Mpg2Cut2.

What muxing programs recognize the presence of CCs in the user data of the MPEG-2 elementary stream?

None of the visually-based cutters that I quickly tried in order to give you a sample would keep the CCs in a form recognizable to CCExtractor. As I said initially, VLC plays them just fine. I still don't know why you ever wanted a sample if you already have this Dracula DVD that has them.

[Chetwood]

Because I completely forgot about this Dracula sample I lost in a HDD crash years ago and I wanted to verify that TSMuxer would ignore those streams. It does, which is a pity. You were right about VLC too, I'd tried it on another machine with a really old version, the current one shows the CC just fine. Still, over the years I've seen very few examples of CCs which is probably one reason why only few programs support them.