I've noticed, at a friend of me, that whenever he backsup a DVD onto his HDD and wants to make a conversion of it (say 2cd into xvid), he always runs into trouble with the 2nd disc's subtitles.
I took a look at it and found the following. (I will use a 2h00m disc-example with 20 chapters as example)
- When a DVD is ripped to 'disc-1' from chapter 1 to 10 and has a length of 1h00m and 'disc-2' from chapter 11 to 20, the timecode for chapter 11 to 20 is not reset from scratch.
This means, that if the subtitles are extracted for 'disc-2' the subtitles start from 01:00:00 to 02:00:00. This results in an offset of 1h00m.
Using the defunkt DVD-Decrypter using a chapter/cell rip extracting the same chapters [11 to 20] I noticed that this program extracts ALL subtitles from chapter1 to 20. Then it's possible using VStrip to select the chapters [11 to 20] to extract the subtitles using a reset-timecode from chapter.
So, rather than to use 3rd party utils, my friend would like to have an update in DVDFab, where the subtitles are properly 'resetted' to the new timecode of the output that is made.
This would make his 'disc-2' with video from 1'00''00 2'00''00, where video is resetted also has resetted subtitle-timecodes, so his conversions are playable with subtitles.
Reason I posted this, his English is even worse than mine and he asked me to post a forum-request for an update to this. And he is eager for it to have it fixed.
I took a look at it and found the following. (I will use a 2h00m disc-example with 20 chapters as example)
- When a DVD is ripped to 'disc-1' from chapter 1 to 10 and has a length of 1h00m and 'disc-2' from chapter 11 to 20, the timecode for chapter 11 to 20 is not reset from scratch.
This means, that if the subtitles are extracted for 'disc-2' the subtitles start from 01:00:00 to 02:00:00. This results in an offset of 1h00m.
Using the defunkt DVD-Decrypter using a chapter/cell rip extracting the same chapters [11 to 20] I noticed that this program extracts ALL subtitles from chapter1 to 20. Then it's possible using VStrip to select the chapters [11 to 20] to extract the subtitles using a reset-timecode from chapter.
So, rather than to use 3rd party utils, my friend would like to have an update in DVDFab, where the subtitles are properly 'resetted' to the new timecode of the output that is made.
This would make his 'disc-2' with video from 1'00''00 2'00''00, where video is resetted also has resetted subtitle-timecodes, so his conversions are playable with subtitles.
Reason I posted this, his English is even worse than mine and he asked me to post a forum-request for an update to this. And he is eager for it to have it fixed.
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