I suppose I should have phrased it differently. It's a problem between subtitles and closed captioning. It seemed like each disc I did (in this case, the Star Wars titles) would be different tracks and you could get full closed captioning, full CC with the English subs, or nothing.

I stopped with those discs and didn't move on to the rest of my collection because I knew those had English subs and about where they were. I blame Lucas.

I also hoped that someone had a chapter listing of all movies with forced subs but I have not found a source as of yet.

I'm going to be starting this up again but it sounds like it's going to be a massive trial and error.

 

Oh, the other thing - commentary titles.

 

You can encode only a chapter or a few seconds if you want. So pop in the star wars disc and play it until subtitles come up then mark down the timestamp of that point. Then set hand brake to only encode that part and test it until you get settings that work

 

That's what I was doing before. It's just a huge pain to have to do that for every movie, some you've never watched before.

4 of the 6 movies came out okay, but 3 and 5 had the commentary titles again. It's just going to take some time.

 

Those DVDs were probably done by a different person and they decided to do it differently than the ones. In the end it acts and looks the same to the customer until you try to do this. There's no standard in dvd authoring....

 

BLU-RAY SUBTITLES!!!! I got them working on Handbrake, sort of. The latest stable build 0.9.5 doesn't work with bluray subtitles but you can download nightly builds and the latest ones work, sort of.

So far new features in HB nightly for Windows, 64bit version, variable framerate support, better support for bluray titles and support for bluray discs, better support for DTS passthrough, 2 minute previews instead of just 1 min, improved Queue and like I said better subtitles.

Now it doesn't pull the subtitles from the bluray unfortunately but you can add subtitles using the SRT file that you can find on the Interwebs. www.allsubs.org and www.mysubtitles.com are both good sites to find SRT files. Once you get the SRT file import it into HB set it as the default subtitle and click add. Also run a preview to make sure the subtitles are in sync with the video, if not you can adjust by using the SRT offset on the subtitles pane. You can put a positive or negative number in the offset and it will adjust the time of the SRT file accordingly. Also make sure you open the SRT files because they'll contain a little mention of the website you got it from like "subtitles provided by www.allsubs.org" delete that crap from the beginning and end.

Subtitle quality can be hit or miss, I had an issue with kill bill vol 2 subtitles, I had to go and manually adjust the times but that's pretty easy. Also in Crouching Tiger, Hidden dragon the subtitles were off by 12 seconds exactly so I had to add a -12000ms offset to the SRT to fix the big delay but that worked out fine. Kill Vol 1 worked great and I didn't have an issue at all.

If you get a mostly english movie with a little bit of foreign language then you'll want the "forced subtitles" which just has the foreign language parts.

once the video is encoded you can't play it in WMP because it doesn't work with the subtitles for some reason but VLC does, once the video starts right click on the video choose video > subtitle > Track 1. Also the videos do work on iOS devices including subtitles. So MS needs to step it's game up.

So for blu-rays using the nightly builds I set it to high profile, variable frame rate, set the constant quality to 22 and that's about it. I'm now making videos over 4gb so to do that and have it work you have to check "large file size" and these large file movies will play on iOS, WMP, VLC but won't play on xbox 360, and I'm not sure about ps3.

 

handbrake nightlies can be had here

https://build.handbrake.fr/

 

Ripbot264 has much better support for BR right now than Handbrake.

 

Bro I tried the rip bot but couldn't even get it to extract from the 7z file. I tried on different machines, different versions and couldn't get it to work

If you want to upload a zipped version I'll try again

Yes I have 7-zip

 

Here you go. Give it a bit to sync.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/17964962/RipBotforStunna.zip

 

Thanks, I'll give a try tomorrow. It works I guess, but it wants me to install avisynth, ffdshow and media splitter first.

 

Ok I've been able to spend some time with RipBot264 over the past few days and when it works right it is much easier at handling bluray subtitles than Handbrake.

It handled Ip Man and Crouching Tiger just fine but it did not do well with Yojimbo and Sanjuro (all 4 are highly recommended films if you haven't seen them yet). I got weird results with audio on the last two and ended up getting no audio at all on the finished product though there was audio in the preview I made. Yes, I tried to play the file on WMP, VLC, iPad and Apple TV all gave me no audio.

Once I put Yojimbo and Sanjuro into handbrake nightly it found another audio track that RipBot never saw. Also I'm undecided on it's quality compared to handbrake, it seems that they both use x264 for encoding so the should be the same but it doesn't have all of the advanced features of handbrake (like greyscale encoding, better audio options, variable framerate encoding, srt offset, etc) but it's still pretty nice.

Since the final quality is more important to me than a streamlined workflow I think I'll be sticking mostly to handbrake and hopefully by the next official release they'll add PGS support for bluray subtitles.

 

Also Subtitle Workshop is a nifty program for converting and adjusting various subtitle fomats into .srt's or a great many other formats. You can get it here
http://www.urusoft.net/products.php?cat=sw&lang=1

 

I should get a bluray drive for my pc... And an additional 12TB of HD space

 

I recently picked up my 2nd Bluray drive. Samsung SH-B123L, pretty nice! Also I use AnyDVDHD to decrypt blurays and DVDs. Worth the price since bluray encryption is always changing and they give you updates. Also all my movies are less than 1TB right now, my largest movie is about 9GB and thats one of the LOTR movies and it looks pretty much as good as the bluray, it seems like you got to really crank up the file size to get a minuscule quality improvement. 2-3GB and hour is about average for 1080p.

 

Ok two updates to make! First up I gave up on using the 360 for the main playback device on the TV. The Apple TV works much better, it supports HD videos and soft subtitles and works with videos larger than 4GB which the 360 doesn't. Only thing is the ATV is 720p only, it still looks good but I know it can look better.

Now that I've enabled large file support I've been fighting with some massive file sizes. For example "The French Connection" is a 105 min movie and when I first ripped it it was over 17GB in size! For comparison Patton a 3hr movie is 3.3gb in size or a fairer comparison is Godfather Part II is 10.5GB in size for 3hrs. Why is French Connection so big? I figured out that it was grain from the analog film, which while it looks cool really gobbles up files sizes and IMO is a little distracting. French Connection is very grainy, probably the worst. I found out I was able to almost cut the file size in half but using the noise reduction in handbrake.

Most new movies don't need this (the Black Swan did) since they're shot digitally but old movies can be pretty grainy depending on how well they were remastered and the film that they were originally shot on.

For French Connection I set it to the Strong noise filter and IMO the video looked even better since it dulls out some of the grain but you don't lose detail elsewhere. Using the strong setting it knocked the file size from 17.3GB to 10.5GB! That's 1-2 extra movies there.

Another example is Kagemusha, it's a 3hr movie and it was originally 22+GB and now it's down to 13.5GB. Black Swan was 9GB, down to 6.6GB using the medium setting, etc.

I was running starting to eat up drive space but now I know how to massive file sizes and in every case I think the video looks just as good or better, if the video looks worse then I use the next noise filtering level down.

 

2nd update and this one is pretty cool! I'm still using RipBot264 as my secondary encoder for special case situations. But I might start using it more with this new feature in the latest update v1.17.0. It's called Distributed Encoding and it uses the distributed computing model and you can setup one PC as an encoding server, share the Ripbot temp folder on your network and install ripbot on other PCs and then you can use them to do multiple encodes at the same time over the network!

Check out this video!

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In the video it looks like he's using multiple PCs to do one encode! That is hella cool! I've got a core i5 in my MBP and quad core AMD in my hyper-v machine that doesn't get stressed too much so I'm gonna use them and try it out, I'll def report back on this. Either it will be awesome or horrible!

 

OH and Miz, Ripbot now supports batch mode.....

 

lol... i guess you saw me in the thread huh?

 

No, I just remember you bitching about it a while back

 

how much drive space do you have total?

 

 

My movies are hosted on mirrored (dynamic disk) 1.5TB caviar blacks. I'm down to about 220GB Free right now but I got a few more large movies that I can re-encode to save some more space, I can probably save another 15-20GB pretty easily. I also have dual 2TB drives that I use for machine backups. I want to go to dual 3TBs to replace my 1.5s but ever since this flood I can't stand spending $500+ for two hard drives that were going for $250 6 months ago. So I'm trying to wait it out as long as I can.

A few nights ago I almost lost all my movies, one the 1.5s was acting weird and popping up drive errors so I took it offline and ran a thorough scan on it and everything came back ok, then I ran a chkdsk and it passed that too. So I decided to do the same with the other 1.5TB. Then when I bring it back online it doesn't want recreate the dynamic disk since it was the main disk of the dynamic disk (n00b mistake) and only the 2nd could rejoin a dynamic disk. Then I made a dumb move and instead of only copying over the files that had changed since I started the scan I decided to delete all the files on the good 1st disk (which was the 2nd disk I scanned) and then copied the files to from the 2nd disk back to the first. It didn't seem like that bad of an idea at the time until I started getting errors again on the 2nd disk (first disk I scanned).

So I stayed up through the night monitoring the copy process and kept note of the files that it failed on and everytime if failed I restarted the machine and skipped the file that it failed on and went to the next. Thank fully it only failed on 3 out of the thousand plus files on there and two of those movies I had the source files still handy to do a re-encode and the 3rd I just added to my Netflix queue. Once I was done copying I reformatted the 2nd drive since I'm not confident that it's a physical drive issue. So far it's been good but if it acts up again I'm going to send it back to Western Digital. But yeah, I was nervous for a moment there and didn't go to sleep until 10am.

 

Well, I just checked and the 2nd disk just started popping up errors so off it goes to WD!

 

OMG I got it working!!!! Distributed computing Bluray ripping at 30FPS! This is soooooo cool!

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I just added my MBP to the mix!

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Only odd thing is that at the bottom it says my FPS is 30 but if you add the numbers up above it's more like 45FPS. I think the 45FPS is the right number.

I just encoded a move in hand brake at 10FPS, now with distributed computing I'm doing 45!

 

This is seriously blowing my mind right now!

I'm using 3pcs all connected via gigabit, a total of 10 physical cores and 16 virtual cores encoding a single movie right now! I'm speechless! This is some cluster computing super computer shit right here!

It's pretty easy to setup too, follow the steps on the video above and launch the encode client on the other PCs and then on the main PC enter their IPs into the extra server boxes and if the firewall was setup right they should start working right away after you hit the connect button.

 

Neat!

 

I just encoded a 2hr movie that usually takes 5-6hrs in 1hr45m!

 

 

Ok follow up instructions. On the main PC follow all the steps in the video and then on the other PCs install ripbot and other necessary programs. then open the ripbot folder and run the encodeserver.exe, you should get a firewall popup, make sure you allow that and that should be it.

On the main PC once the encode starts you'll get the distributed encoding window just enter the IPs of the other PCs and choose connect and they should start up.

If they won't connect then you probably have some firewall issue or have the IP wrong or the encode server software isn't running on the other PCs. On the main PC you should get a firewall popup for encodeclient.exe also. If all else fails then just turn off the firewalls.

Contrary to what I said before you do not need to open the encodeclient.exe on the other PCs, that just messes things up, only the main PC runs that. You don't need to open ripbot on the other PCs either just encodeserver.exe

 

too bad i only got 1 pc in this house.

well i got a old ass p4 1.x ghz computer that my mom uses, but im afraid if i stress that computer it'll literally blow up...

 

Yeah don't do that. I'd probably run slower if you added that one

 

i should probably get her a new computer. runs slow as balls. but then again all she does is check email and goto online banking websites etc.

 

That's pretty suite stunna

 

Pretty sure I'm doing this all wrong but I guess I'll find out soon enough.

I downloaded Handbrake to my Mac. Inserted a DVD and let Handbrake make an .m4v file out of it to my desktop.
I downloaded DVDFab and I clicked "Convert file to DVD" pointed it to the file on my desktop and it is encoding?

I have no clue what the heck I am doing or if there is a faster way to make copies of these 7 DVD's.

 

I can't remember does DVD Fab make a disc image and remove CSS encryption? If so use that to make a disc image and then burn the image to disc using OS X's disk utility. Or you can use the full trial version of anydvd from slysoft. I use anydvd HD to rip DVD and bluray and it can make encryption free disc images.

http://www.slysoft.com/en/download.html

 

oh nevermind anydvd doesn't run on Mac, you got bootcamp?

 

You're speaking another language right now

This somewhat makes sense to me.



Yes on Bootcamp.

 

Follow these steps for dvdfab then double click the created iso and it should burn using the builtin iso burner in windows 7 http://forum.dvdfab.com/showthread.php?t=549