Converting DVDs/BDs to MPEG4 - WITH subtitles
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I often visit a friend to watch (mostly my own) DVD/BD movies - he has a huge TV set. He has no Bluray player, and his only DVD player is in his full-size tower PC, so I bring my settop player for plugging into his TV set. That is somewhat cumbersome; on my last visit I happened to leave the remote at home, and the player doesn't have the buttons (except On/off and Eject). His TV set has a USB socket, and can play MPEG4 videos stored on a memory stick. If I could copy the DVD/BD to a file on the stick, I wouldn't have to carry the player back and forth every time. I've got the software for extracting the sound and video from both DVDs and BDs to an MPEG4 file. But NOT the subtitle tracks. Now it happens that we frequently watch foreign movies - and, as we are not native English speakers, some English dialects fall into the same group as Finish or Italian :-). So for a lot of the movies, we need the subtitles. Actually, for some disks with multiple soundtracks, my ripping software also picks the 'wrong' one, so even though the movie is English, the MPEG4 file has the French or Italian dubbed sound track. Is there any software out there that allows me to rip the movie to MPEG4, with the subtitle track of my choice, and preferably the sound track of my choice? Ideally, it should also be capable of reading an .srt file (instead of the graphical subtitle images on the DVD/BD), with selectable text rendering. It doesn't have to be freeeware, but I'm not going to pay thousands of dollars. Before you give me that ugly look: In my country (Norway), the law explicitly states that you may produce copies for private, non-commercial purposes as long as it is limited to private, non-commercial purposes (the statue actually repeates this restriction!), so I am NOT breaking the law as long as I use it only for watching the movies on my friend's TV set.
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Learning Finish? :-) The last movie I watched with my friend was "Rare Exports Inc." - a Christmas horror movie. Or horror comedy, if you prefer. Absolutely worth watching! If I count the number of spoken languages across my shelves of movies, there is at least 25-30 of them, maybe more. And then comes all the English... Some DVDs allow you to select subtitle language, but not turn it off; subtitling is mandatory. The first movie on the Norwegian market was "Oh brother, where art thou?", and it was commented by lots of people that for that movie, it really wasn't too annoying that the spoken "English" was subtitled :-) Extracting .srt files (or the text in any format) from DVD/BDs is based on OCR, character recognition, which usually has a very high error frequency; it is hardly worth it. It is usually faster typing the text manually from the screen image. (You use the converter to get the .srt time stamps, and then replace the garbled text contents with your own copy off the screen.) I guess that this "Freemake", recommended by A_Griffin (I already sent away my USD 19 for the Premium Freemake, but won't have a chance to try it until I return home after work) treats the subtitle track "as is", as a graphical overlay, without attempting to recognize the text.
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There I found the sale price of the Premium pack. I know that DVD/BD players are cheap nowadays, but can you really get one for $19 where you live?
Member 7989122 wrote:
I know that DVD/BD players are cheap nowadays, but can you really get one for $19 where you live?
$19, no, but $39 for refurbished on Amazon, yes . . . and for that small expenditure you eliminate having to spend your time ripping the discs.
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I often visit a friend to watch (mostly my own) DVD/BD movies - he has a huge TV set. He has no Bluray player, and his only DVD player is in his full-size tower PC, so I bring my settop player for plugging into his TV set. That is somewhat cumbersome; on my last visit I happened to leave the remote at home, and the player doesn't have the buttons (except On/off and Eject). His TV set has a USB socket, and can play MPEG4 videos stored on a memory stick. If I could copy the DVD/BD to a file on the stick, I wouldn't have to carry the player back and forth every time. I've got the software for extracting the sound and video from both DVDs and BDs to an MPEG4 file. But NOT the subtitle tracks. Now it happens that we frequently watch foreign movies - and, as we are not native English speakers, some English dialects fall into the same group as Finish or Italian :-). So for a lot of the movies, we need the subtitles. Actually, for some disks with multiple soundtracks, my ripping software also picks the 'wrong' one, so even though the movie is English, the MPEG4 file has the French or Italian dubbed sound track. Is there any software out there that allows me to rip the movie to MPEG4, with the subtitle track of my choice, and preferably the sound track of my choice? Ideally, it should also be capable of reading an .srt file (instead of the graphical subtitle images on the DVD/BD), with selectable text rendering. It doesn't have to be freeeware, but I'm not going to pay thousands of dollars. Before you give me that ugly look: In my country (Norway), the law explicitly states that you may produce copies for private, non-commercial purposes as long as it is limited to private, non-commercial purposes (the statue actually repeates this restriction!), so I am NOT breaking the law as long as I use it only for watching the movies on my friend's TV set.
Use HandBrake, is almost dead easy to use, if your DVDs are encrypted, DVD Decrypter, MakeMKV or AnyDVD should help you with that.
CEO at: - Rafaga Systems - Para Facturas - Modern Components for the moment...
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True - though in fairness their pricess are not outrageous, and they're still the best (I've found) for downloading videos off the Internet (YouTube et al)
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I often visit a friend to watch (mostly my own) DVD/BD movies - he has a huge TV set. He has no Bluray player, and his only DVD player is in his full-size tower PC, so I bring my settop player for plugging into his TV set. That is somewhat cumbersome; on my last visit I happened to leave the remote at home, and the player doesn't have the buttons (except On/off and Eject). His TV set has a USB socket, and can play MPEG4 videos stored on a memory stick. If I could copy the DVD/BD to a file on the stick, I wouldn't have to carry the player back and forth every time. I've got the software for extracting the sound and video from both DVDs and BDs to an MPEG4 file. But NOT the subtitle tracks. Now it happens that we frequently watch foreign movies - and, as we are not native English speakers, some English dialects fall into the same group as Finish or Italian :-). So for a lot of the movies, we need the subtitles. Actually, for some disks with multiple soundtracks, my ripping software also picks the 'wrong' one, so even though the movie is English, the MPEG4 file has the French or Italian dubbed sound track. Is there any software out there that allows me to rip the movie to MPEG4, with the subtitle track of my choice, and preferably the sound track of my choice? Ideally, it should also be capable of reading an .srt file (instead of the graphical subtitle images on the DVD/BD), with selectable text rendering. It doesn't have to be freeeware, but I'm not going to pay thousands of dollars. Before you give me that ugly look: In my country (Norway), the law explicitly states that you may produce copies for private, non-commercial purposes as long as it is limited to private, non-commercial purposes (the statue actually repeates this restriction!), so I am NOT breaking the law as long as I use it only for watching the movies on my friend's TV set.
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I often visit a friend to watch (mostly my own) DVD/BD movies - he has a huge TV set. He has no Bluray player, and his only DVD player is in his full-size tower PC, so I bring my settop player for plugging into his TV set. That is somewhat cumbersome; on my last visit I happened to leave the remote at home, and the player doesn't have the buttons (except On/off and Eject). His TV set has a USB socket, and can play MPEG4 videos stored on a memory stick. If I could copy the DVD/BD to a file on the stick, I wouldn't have to carry the player back and forth every time. I've got the software for extracting the sound and video from both DVDs and BDs to an MPEG4 file. But NOT the subtitle tracks. Now it happens that we frequently watch foreign movies - and, as we are not native English speakers, some English dialects fall into the same group as Finish or Italian :-). So for a lot of the movies, we need the subtitles. Actually, for some disks with multiple soundtracks, my ripping software also picks the 'wrong' one, so even though the movie is English, the MPEG4 file has the French or Italian dubbed sound track. Is there any software out there that allows me to rip the movie to MPEG4, with the subtitle track of my choice, and preferably the sound track of my choice? Ideally, it should also be capable of reading an .srt file (instead of the graphical subtitle images on the DVD/BD), with selectable text rendering. It doesn't have to be freeeware, but I'm not going to pay thousands of dollars. Before you give me that ugly look: In my country (Norway), the law explicitly states that you may produce copies for private, non-commercial purposes as long as it is limited to private, non-commercial purposes (the statue actually repeates this restriction!), so I am NOT breaking the law as long as I use it only for watching the movies on my friend's TV set.
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I often visit a friend to watch (mostly my own) DVD/BD movies - he has a huge TV set. He has no Bluray player, and his only DVD player is in his full-size tower PC, so I bring my settop player for plugging into his TV set. That is somewhat cumbersome; on my last visit I happened to leave the remote at home, and the player doesn't have the buttons (except On/off and Eject). His TV set has a USB socket, and can play MPEG4 videos stored on a memory stick. If I could copy the DVD/BD to a file on the stick, I wouldn't have to carry the player back and forth every time. I've got the software for extracting the sound and video from both DVDs and BDs to an MPEG4 file. But NOT the subtitle tracks. Now it happens that we frequently watch foreign movies - and, as we are not native English speakers, some English dialects fall into the same group as Finish or Italian :-). So for a lot of the movies, we need the subtitles. Actually, for some disks with multiple soundtracks, my ripping software also picks the 'wrong' one, so even though the movie is English, the MPEG4 file has the French or Italian dubbed sound track. Is there any software out there that allows me to rip the movie to MPEG4, with the subtitle track of my choice, and preferably the sound track of my choice? Ideally, it should also be capable of reading an .srt file (instead of the graphical subtitle images on the DVD/BD), with selectable text rendering. It doesn't have to be freeeware, but I'm not going to pay thousands of dollars. Before you give me that ugly look: In my country (Norway), the law explicitly states that you may produce copies for private, non-commercial purposes as long as it is limited to private, non-commercial purposes (the statue actually repeates this restriction!), so I am NOT breaking the law as long as I use it only for watching the movies on my friend's TV set.
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I often visit a friend to watch (mostly my own) DVD/BD movies - he has a huge TV set. He has no Bluray player, and his only DVD player is in his full-size tower PC, so I bring my settop player for plugging into his TV set. That is somewhat cumbersome; on my last visit I happened to leave the remote at home, and the player doesn't have the buttons (except On/off and Eject). His TV set has a USB socket, and can play MPEG4 videos stored on a memory stick. If I could copy the DVD/BD to a file on the stick, I wouldn't have to carry the player back and forth every time. I've got the software for extracting the sound and video from both DVDs and BDs to an MPEG4 file. But NOT the subtitle tracks. Now it happens that we frequently watch foreign movies - and, as we are not native English speakers, some English dialects fall into the same group as Finish or Italian :-). So for a lot of the movies, we need the subtitles. Actually, for some disks with multiple soundtracks, my ripping software also picks the 'wrong' one, so even though the movie is English, the MPEG4 file has the French or Italian dubbed sound track. Is there any software out there that allows me to rip the movie to MPEG4, with the subtitle track of my choice, and preferably the sound track of my choice? Ideally, it should also be capable of reading an .srt file (instead of the graphical subtitle images on the DVD/BD), with selectable text rendering. It doesn't have to be freeeware, but I'm not going to pay thousands of dollars. Before you give me that ugly look: In my country (Norway), the law explicitly states that you may produce copies for private, non-commercial purposes as long as it is limited to private, non-commercial purposes (the statue actually repeates this restriction!), so I am NOT breaking the law as long as I use it only for watching the movies on my friend's TV set.
Second hand shop, DVD player $12. Hard-rubbish collection - $free. No time or electricity wasted ripping. Failing that, just use the *nix olden goldie, mplayer Here's the result a a quick goggle (sp intentional!) [mplayer rip dvd subtitles - Google Search](https://www.google.com.au/search?q=mplayer+rip+dvd+subtitles&oq=mplayer+rip+dvd+&aqs=chrome.2.69i57j0l5.14597j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8) mplayer can do the sound, the video and the subs. All for the rip-off price of $free
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Second hand shop, DVD player $12. Hard-rubbish collection - $free. No time or electricity wasted ripping. Failing that, just use the *nix olden goldie, mplayer Here's the result a a quick goggle (sp intentional!) [mplayer rip dvd subtitles - Google Search](https://www.google.com.au/search?q=mplayer+rip+dvd+subtitles&oq=mplayer+rip+dvd+&aqs=chrome.2.69i57j0l5.14597j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8) mplayer can do the sound, the video and the subs. All for the rip-off price of $free
I have copied all my music CDs, as well as digitized vinyls and CCs, to a hard disk. It saves me half an hour a day (or at least close to that :-)) searching back and forth through my CD shelves to find the music I want. (Even if I used to have my CD shelves sorted on artist, that was certainly not always my selection/searching criteria: Sometimes you search for a work of a given title, sometimes for an individual artist hidden by some band name, sometimes you don't remember who was the performer, ...) So I am in the process of ripping all my movies anyway. But generally, I make a copy of the directory structure on the video disk, so that I can select the subtitles as I want, navigate through chapters, select sound track etc. Ripping is not a big issue - as long as region codes and encryption issues can be solved, and the cost of hard disks remain low. The list price of 4-8 TB disks is around 25-30 USD per TB, so the cost of storing a BD movie is typically around 50-70 US cents.
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I often visit a friend to watch (mostly my own) DVD/BD movies - he has a huge TV set. He has no Bluray player, and his only DVD player is in his full-size tower PC, so I bring my settop player for plugging into his TV set. That is somewhat cumbersome; on my last visit I happened to leave the remote at home, and the player doesn't have the buttons (except On/off and Eject). His TV set has a USB socket, and can play MPEG4 videos stored on a memory stick. If I could copy the DVD/BD to a file on the stick, I wouldn't have to carry the player back and forth every time. I've got the software for extracting the sound and video from both DVDs and BDs to an MPEG4 file. But NOT the subtitle tracks. Now it happens that we frequently watch foreign movies - and, as we are not native English speakers, some English dialects fall into the same group as Finish or Italian :-). So for a lot of the movies, we need the subtitles. Actually, for some disks with multiple soundtracks, my ripping software also picks the 'wrong' one, so even though the movie is English, the MPEG4 file has the French or Italian dubbed sound track. Is there any software out there that allows me to rip the movie to MPEG4, with the subtitle track of my choice, and preferably the sound track of my choice? Ideally, it should also be capable of reading an .srt file (instead of the graphical subtitle images on the DVD/BD), with selectable text rendering. It doesn't have to be freeeware, but I'm not going to pay thousands of dollars. Before you give me that ugly look: In my country (Norway), the law explicitly states that you may produce copies for private, non-commercial purposes as long as it is limited to private, non-commercial purposes (the statue actually repeates this restriction!), so I am NOT breaking the law as long as I use it only for watching the movies on my friend's TV set.