On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 03:50:59PM +1000, Andrew Greig wrote:
On Sat, 2014-04-26 at 01:28 -0400, Robin Humble wrote:
On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 03:07:40PM +1000, Andrew Greig wrote:
I am putting my DVD collection onto a hard drive and I am using DVDRIP, and I have been unsuccessful in getting subtitles to display in the end file. How do I configure DVDRIP to grab the subtitles please? diskspace is cheap - just rip the vob file - it includes all the content. eg. mplayer dvd://1 -dumpstream -dumpfile 1.vob DVDRIP does rip to a series of VOB files in a folder. So are you saying that the subtitles will be contained in each of those files?
vobs contain all the data that's on the dvd - video, audio tracks, subtitles
If that is what you are saying, then it must be at the transcode step where the subtitles get lost.
yup. if you want to stick with a lossy compression pass, then in the past I've either rendered subtitles onto the video, or it should also be possible to store the (rendered?) subtitles, index etc. as separate files. it's probably a bit messy to setup for each dvd.
If the Aldi and Kaiser baas media players will handle vob files then I am set.
good luck. they'll likely have wimpy cores and will rely heavily on media engines to offload the mpeg2 decode. if they don't recognise the vob format then they'll struggle. mplayer or vlc from an old hdmi laptop is a pretty good low power solution IMHO. not as low power as those players, but infinitely more flexible. also plenty of gui's if you want them, and cli for those of us who don't. BTW I'd be interested in the lowest power full linux installs that people have running their tv's... eg. an (overkill) i7-2620M 35W TDP laptop is about 14W @ the wall when idle and about 2W more when playing video. it'd be nice to get that lower. does anyone have a Debian or Fedora Arm or Intel NUC (or similar) tv box that does deinterlacing and 1080p smoothy from all file formats? how many Watts at the wall? cheers, robin