DVD to WMV with subtitles

[ZeezGorter]

I am a newbie with encoding, so maybe there are some things i could do better. I want to rip a DVD to WMV(with subtitles).

I found out you can put subtitles under a streaming video with SAMI files. Like this: link (http://www.clickandgovideo.ac.uk/captions2.htm). But I don't like the black border on which the subtitles are displayed on and the captions are default turned off in Windows Media Player. Another way is to encode the subtitles with the video (with FlaskMpeg). This looks good, but is not very flexible.

The way I do it now is this:
- I rip the DVD with DVD Decrypter.
- I encode the video with Flask Mpeg to AVI(with permanent subtitles) and a AC3 file.
- I use BeSweet to convert to AC3 file to six wave files.
- I use Windows Media Encoder to encode the AVI and six wave files to WMV with 5.1 sound.

And now my questions:
- Is there a better and flexible way to use subtitles with streaming video?
- Is realistic to use 5.1 sound or does it take to much of the video quality?
- Which codec can i use best in Flask Mpeg? I now use mpeg-4 v3, but the quality isnt that great and uncompressed video is to big.
- What can i do about the aspect ratio? If i encode the file with Flask Mpeg the file doesn't look the same as the vob.
- Maybe other suggestions?

[jel]

Thread re-opened.

@ZeezGorter
Sorry for any misunderstanding in your intenet.
Good Luck

j

[ZeezGorter]

I have another question. I ripped a idx and sub file form my dvd and put them in the same directory as my wmv file with the same name. When i play the file in Media Player Classic, i see the subtitles. But Windows Media Player doesn't show them.
Is vobsub not installed correctly or can't i use subtitle files with a wmv file in Windows Media Player?

[ZeezGorter]

I have another question, I've been trying to use intelligent streaming using windows media encoder and windows media services. I can encode it using the wizard with multiple bitrates, but when I try to stream it using windows media services it will always try to play the highest stream, even though my upload won't allow me to upload the stream that fast.

The fie is larger than just the largest stream by itself, so it must contain all the streams, that doesn't seem to be the problem. Am I missing something important for it to work?