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sehh
5th August 2002, 13:25
(this is a bit advanced for the normal user of DVD2SVCD so i'm
posting it here, lets hope it wasn't a mistake)

How to remove 'banner/ad subtitles'.

In the long history of ripping Greek and English DVDs, i've been
doing a lot of work on subtitles. Many DVDs have a small advert or
banner at the end of the movie, which says who made the subtitles.

These advert/banners exist in many 'subtitles for the hearing impared', and in most DVDs sold in Greece which had their subtitles produced by
one of the local firms (Spentzos Film, etc).

Some people do not like this 'gray' advertising of who made the subtitles
appearing at the end of the movie right ontop of the ending, or ontop
of the ending credits.

So here we go:

1) Start the ripping process as usual.

2) Select the subtitles that you want to rip as usual.

3) Once the ripping starts, watch the Log tab.

4) Once the 'Extracting the subtitles' has finished and the
next part of the ripping process starts (AUDIO Extraction),
you should open your favorite file manager.

5) Go to the .\Subs directory (or whatever you've got as path
for ripping the subtitles in your 'Subtitles' tab.

6) As you'll notice all subtitles are just bitmap images. Now
find the very last files, they are the ones at the bottom if
you sort in alphabetical order, the ones with the highest number
on the filename. For example 'en101351.bmp'.

7) Run Paint (Start->Programs->Accessories->Paint), and load
that file.

8) If indeed it is a banner/ad, then use the rectangle tool (filled,
no border) with black color to pain over the letters.

9) Now save the file and you are ready.

10) As a last note, sometimes the banner/ad can be two or three
subtitles long! So just in case, take a look at the last three
subtitles, for example en101349.bmp, en101350.bmp, en101351.bmp.

I hope this helps.

Labersack
5th August 2002, 17:45
Have you ever tried to just kill the corresponding lines in the 'en1-1.txt' and the
'en1-1.sub' (of course the filename are others for greek)?
This should solve your problem also, but without any need to edit the bmp-files.

sehh
5th August 2002, 23:52
To tell you the truth, i wanted to avoid doing that just in case
i did something bad and caused the processing to fail. I've looked
at the files and the format is a bit complex and i wouldn't want to
change anything by hand.

Editing the subtitles with a bitmap editor also gives you the ability
to add your own subtitles at the end, like 'Ripped by me'. Although
i wouldn't suggest something like that.... ;)

Labersack
7th August 2002, 15:32
I just want to mention another method. If your method does what you want, it can't be wrong. ;)

sehh
7th August 2002, 15:48
:cool:

switu
14th August 2002, 13:16
Hi sehh

I have a qustion for you.
Can you romove subs from the tvrip?
Please,let me know, I have few good digital tvrips but the subs are very anoying and I want them erase.
cheers:D

Labersack
14th August 2002, 18:37
If you grab/capture from TV, the subs are in the movie, and the part of the movie which lies behind the subs isn't in your file. You can't regain the movie information which is needed, so what kind of pixels do you have to insert in the pixel which were subtitles?
I think there is no way do do this.
Maybe some complicated calulation may fill the empty pixels with some dummys, so you won't notice the replacement on the first sight, but I don't know of any software capable of doing this.

switu
14th August 2002, 19:40
THANKS A LOT
:rolleyes: :mad: