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Anyone Ripped Star Wars Blu Ray Discs Yet?
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Here's an only-Mac, all-GUI workflow that I've cobbled together from various sources:
- Rip the movie with MakeMKV, including the appropriate English subtitle track for the alien dialog (see below)
- Extract the subtitle track from your rip using MKVTools
- Convert the subtitle track to .sub using BDSup2Sub
- Mux the converted track back into the original rip using MKVMerge, remembering to uncheck the original subtitle track
- Encode using HandBrake, remembering to burn in the subtitle track - do not check "forced only"
- Enjoy your movie
The alien-only English subtitles are in a track of their own that is separate from the main subtitle track (if you use the main subs, you get the actual alien dialog, not the English translation). The folks over at the MakeMKV forum came up with this list, which I reproduce here:
Um, if you're watching HD of any kind on the ATV2, you ARE settling for 720p.
I'm hoping someone may be able to point me in the right direction, as I'm obviously doing something wrong; I've ripped each Star Wars BD ( UK Set )using AnyDVD, used ClownBD to extract the subtitles ( Angle 1, 5.1 audio, Sub 41 for Ep 1, for example ), converted the subtitle file, and merged it all back in. All good. My problem, is that resultant MKV ( and encode ) have the descriptive commentary on them. Any ideas where I'm going wrong?
It sounds like you've taken the wrong audio track from the Blu-Ray. Go back and extract the top audio track (I believe it's 7.1, but I could well be wrong). No need to re-do all your work; you should be able to mux the new audio track straight back into your MKV.
Stunning, thank you, that's fixed it ( well sort of, this time I got the director's commentary, but that's a start... ). Still figuring out the various options on ClownDB, thought the soundtracks selected where the ones available....my bad.... tis a pity that it won't do 6.1, but hey ho, it's only for the convenience ( my six year old likes SW, having it on the ATV is such a help.... ).
Thanks again!
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I had been de-selecting the 6.1 DTS track as ClownDB complained, though that may be down to my lack of understanding of ClownDB....
I'm having trouble with A New Hope subtitles. I've tried both track 2 and 5. I'm getting director commentary. I used DVDfab mkv.remux to get the english subs in IDX. Then I muxed them back in using MKVtoolnix. Then I encoded the MKV DTS audio track to AAC Dolby Pro Logic II and AC3(ffmpeg). I selected English 5 Burned In (did not select forced only). It would be helpful if I knew a time marker to test the alien subtitle.
If you use BDSup2Sub you can preview the subtitle content prior to muxing.
When I ripped Ep. 4 I extracted all the English subtitles, and there are a lot (FYI, extracting multiple subtitle tracks takes the same amount of time as extracting 1, so it's no hassle to do this). I opened them one at a time in BDSup2Sub until I found the one I needed, then exported the .idx version of it.
PS In BDSup2Sub, you can move the subtitles so that they appear in the lower bar below the movie image. It's not a huge deal, but it keeps the picture clean and isn't too much of a bother as there are very few forced subs (you have to move each one individually).
depends on your bit rate. If you do 10Mbps, then that comes out to 1.25MB/second, and you have 3600 seconds in an hour, or 7200 seconds in 2 hours, so say a 2 hour movie, 7200x1.25 = 9000MB for 2 hours or 4500MB/Hour.