ripping with vobsub: several vob ID at once?

[Stan Pulsar]

hi there ! ;)
I want to rip subs from a vob file (single .vob with .ifo), that contains several vob IDs, that is several program chains in "vobsub configure". (cut scenes from "episode 1-bonus")

the vob is to be encoded using GK, at once. (all scenes joined, one only .avi file)
I can only rip one program chain at a time with vobsub... is there a way to get directly one "big" subtitle file with all the chains, with correct timestamps?

If not, I could join all the subs, but I need to know the EXACT duration of each vobID...
I tried with vobrator and ifoedit, but the only time info I can get is "min/sec". I find it too unprecise, as it could lead to desync in the last "parts" of the final sub file...
any idea where I could get "ms" info ?

thanks for your great job !!!

[Stan Pulsar]

actually I was a bit tired yesterday... :D

there IS more info than just min/sec in IFOedit, but it's a 2 digits number... so that's no "ms"
I guess it's "frames", am I right ??
well this could do.

but still want to know if it's possible to do it at once, without joining multiples sub files...

[rte5]

Maybe you can use IfoEdit to create new IFOs for the VOB, then you would have one program chain. Then maybe you can extract the subtitles?

[Yusaku]

Probably easiest is to get a hold of some older version of VobSub - AFAICR before 2.19 the IFO parsing was not so advanced and (albeit after warning) you could do exactly what you want.

[Stan Pulsar]

@ rt5 : I tried this solution in the first place, but actually I'm experiencing problems with IFO edit...

@ Yusaku : good advice ! I may have an older version somewhere on a cd-r, I'll try it.

thx to you all ! ;)