Ripping DVD with Subtitles
Hi all, 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? Andrew Greig
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 use 'lsdvd' to find the feature track id (1 in the above). play the file like you would normally play a dvd and select whichever subtitles and languages you like. cheers, robin
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
use 'lsdvd' to find the feature track id (1 in the above).
play the file like you would normally play a dvd and select whichever subtitles and languages you like.
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Thanks Robin, 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? If that is what you are saying, then it must be at the transcode step where the subtitles get lost. If the Aldi and Kaiser baas media players will handle vob files then I am set. Thanks Andrew
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
On 26.04.14 03:32, Robin Humble wrote:
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.
Replacing my venerable CD-ROM with a DVD drive has moved onto the to-do list. A quick bit of googling suggests that linux compatibility isn't an issue, and they'll mostly be SATA. Internal drives seem less advertised, but not excessively scarce. Is it the case that some makes (e.g. LG) read scratched discs better than others (e.g. ASUS)? The 3:1 price difference between HP and ASUS doesn't surprise much, since that's usually the cost of the name plate. Any notable experiences would be most enlightening. Erik -- ... assume that the jobs are going to China or somewhere else, and certainly there is some manufacturing going to China, but ... there are fewer manufacturing jobs in China as well. They are down by 20 million just since the 1990s. So jobs are leaving both China and the United States in manufacturing and going to robots. - http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/futuretense/5285816
On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 07:52:12PM +1000, Erik Christiansen wrote:
Replacing my venerable CD-ROM with a DVD drive has moved onto the to-do list. A quick bit of googling suggests that linux compatibility isn't an issue, and they'll mostly be SATA. Internal drives seem less advertised, but not excessively scarce.
region free firmware is the main stumbling block for me. I lived overseas for quite a while, so I need to play region 1 as well as region 4 discs. some uk discs too.
Is it the case that some makes (e.g. LG) read scratched discs better than others (e.g. ASUS)? The 3:1 price difference between HP and ASUS doesn't surprise much, since that's usually the cost of the name plate.
I hear it's pretty random... my 2c is that an ancient sony dvd-rom and newish matshita dvd-rw behave about the same on my scratched discs. however a stand-alone panasonic dvd player (not attached to a computer) reads them much better. <<hmmm - optimistically pulls apart dvd player and unfortunately sees nothing looking like sata - although I did find pads for serial and usb>> cheers, robin
On 26.04.14 10:45, Robin Humble wrote:
<<hmmm - optimistically pulls apart dvd player and unfortunately sees nothing looking like sata - although I did find pads for serial and usb>>
I'm just going by what shows up under "specifications" on vendor's websites. The internal ones seem to be SATA, and the external ones usually picture USB plugs. (Sample size: < Half an hour's googling.) Erik -- It is not possible to have a democracy if we have to protect our users from the government. The government has done itself a tremendous disservice and we need to have a debate about it, - Larry Page, at TED, where Edward Snowden appeared. <http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-26658892>
On Sat, 26 Apr 2014 19:52:12 Erik Christiansen wrote:
On 26.04.14 03:32, Robin Humble wrote:
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.
Replacing my venerable CD-ROM with a DVD drive has moved onto the to-do list. A quick bit of googling suggests that linux compatibility isn't an issue, and they'll mostly be SATA. Internal drives seem less advertised, but not excessively scarce.
Is it the case that some makes (e.g. LG) read scratched discs better than others (e.g. ASUS)? The 3:1 price difference between HP and ASUS doesn't surprise much, since that's usually the cost of the name plate.
Would you like me to bring some DVD drives to the next LUV meeting? I can provide both IDE and SATA. If you'd like to take 5 drives, test them all, and return the ones that don't work so well then that would be fine. I don't have much need for reading scratched discs. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/
On 26 Apr 2014, at 17:32, Robin Humble <rjh+luv@cita.utoronto.ca> wrote:
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.
I've been using the CuBox from Solid Run for an XBMC player - No inbuilt optical drive, but it has USB and could easily use one external. My media is served via NFS http://www.solid-run.com/ http://cubox-i.com/
On 28 April 2014 13:35, hannah commodore <hannah@tinfoilhat.net> wrote:
On 26 Apr 2014, at 17:32, Robin Humble <rjh+luv@cita.utoronto.ca> wrote:
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.
I've been using the CuBox from Solid Run for an XBMC player - No inbuilt optical drive, but it has USB and could easily use one external. My media is served via NFS
Wow! that's neat. What version do you have, what OS are you running and any negatives? Presumably you use it as a player/renderer only i.e. no recording of say live TV? -- Colin Fee tfeccles@gmail.com
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