DVDFab 9 Video converter subtitles issue

[gringito38]

Hello @ll

I recently bought DVDFab 9 Video converter in order to compress and transform .mkv big files to .mp4 smaller files.

All seems to be running fine BUT I'm no able to select any subtitle track before converting (for each files the only I have is NONE (or select file) in subtitle field). I tried with a lot of movies and the case is the same. My movies do have subtitles muxed in mkv (I see it with mediainfo), but they don't appear in the main screen, even if I change my options ...

The strangest is I'm almost sure I saw subtitles seclection when I used this tool for the first time, since not ...

The only solution I have for the moment is to extract the subtitles in a file (.srt) with mkvtoolnix, then import the file in DVDFab 9.
Do you have a good idea for a dummy ?

Thanks a lot ...

[rmeyers]

Same issue. No subtitles show up in DVDFab for my files when trying to convert to iPad 4 format. Using v9.1.5.2. An example of a file I am trying to convert is below:

General
Unique ID                                : 180000089603783287025103921821236957841 (0x876AC199FEC953F1B6F244AE9C619291)
Complete name                            : Z:\TV Shows\Doesnt Matter.mkv
Format                                   : Matroska
Format version                           : Version 4 / Version 2
File size                                : 4.37 GiB
Duration                                 : 52mn 41s
Overall bit rate                         : 11.9 Mbps
Encoded date                             : UTC 2014-06-17 01:19:38
Writing application                      : mkvmerge v7.0.0 ('Where We Going') 64bit built on Jun  9 2014 15:16:27
Writing library                          : libebml v1.3.0 + libmatroska v1.4.1
DURATION                                 : 00:48:52.720000000
NUMBER_OF_FRAMES                         : 740
NUMBER_OF_BYTES                          : 25835
_STATISTICS_WRITING_APP                  : mkvmerge v7.0.0 ('Where We Going') 64bit built on Jun  9 2014 15:16:27
_STATISTICS_WRITING_DATE_UTC             : 2014-06-17 01:19:38
_STATISTICS_TAGS                         : BPS DURATION NUMBER_OF_FRAMES NUMBER_OF_BYTES

Video
ID                                       : 1
Format                                   : AVC
Format/Info                              : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile                           : High@L4.1
Format settings, CABAC                   : Yes
Format settings, ReFrames                : 4 frames
Codec ID                                 : V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC
Duration                                 : 52mn 41s
Bit rate                                 : 10.4 Mbps
Width                                    : 1 920 pixels
Height                                   : 1 080 pixels
Display aspect ratio                     : 16:9
Frame rate mode                          : Constant
Frame rate                               : 23.976 fps
Color space                              : YUV
Chroma subsampling                       : 4:2:0
Bit depth                                : 8 bits
Scan type                                : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame)                       : 0.208
Stream size                              : 3.73 GiB (85%)
Writing library                          : x264 core 129 r2245 bc13772
Encoding settings                        : cabac=1 / ref=4 / deblock=1:0:0 / analyse=0x3:0x133 / me=umh / subme=7 / psy=1 / psy_rd=1.00:0.00 / mixed_ref=1 / me_range=16 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=1 / 8x8dct=1 / cqm=0 / deadzone=21,11 / fast_pskip=0 / chroma_qp_offset=-2 / threads=12 / lookahead_threads=2 / sliced_threads=0 / nr=0 / decimate=1 / interlaced=0 / bluray_compat=0 / constrained_intra=0 / bframes=3 / b_pyramid=2 / b_adapt=1 / b_bias=0 / direct=1 / weightb=1 / open_gop=0 / weightp=2 / keyint=250 / keyint_min=23 / scenecut=40 / intra_refresh=0 / rc_lookahead=40 / rc=2pass / mbtree=1 / bitrate=10362 / ratetol=1.0 / qcomp=0.60 / qpmin=0 / qpmax=69 / qpstep=4 / cplxblur=20.0 / qblur=0.5 / ip_ratio=1.40 / aq=1:1.00
Language                                 : English
Default                                  : Yes
Forced                                   : No
DURATION                                 : 00:52:41.326000000
NUMBER_OF_FRAMES                         : 75796
NUMBER_OF_BYTES                          : 4095809644
_STATISTICS_WRITING_APP                  : mkvmerge v7.0.0 ('Where We Going') 64bit built on Jun  9 2014 15:16:27
_STATISTICS_WRITING_DATE_UTC             : 2014-06-17 01:19:38
_STATISTICS_TAGS                         : BPS DURATION NUMBER_OF_FRAMES NUMBER_OF_BYTES

Audio
ID                                       : 2
Format                                   : DTS
Format/Info                              : Digital Theater Systems
Mode                                     : 16
Format settings, Endianness              : Big
Codec ID                                 : A_DTS
Duration                                 : 52mn 41s
Bit rate mode                            : Constant
Bit rate                                 : 1 509 Kbps
Channel(s)                               : 6 channels
Channel positions                        : Front: L C R, Side: L R, LFE
Sampling rate                            : 48.0 KHz
Bit depth                                : 24 bits
Compression mode                         : Lossy
Stream size                              : 569 MiB (13%)
Title                                    : DTS
Language                                 : English
Default                                  : Yes
Forced                                   : No

Text #1
ID                                       : 3
Format                                   : UTF-8
Codec ID                                 : S_TEXT/UTF8
Codec ID/Info                            : UTF-8 Plain Text
Title                                    : English (Forced)
Language                                 : English
Default                                  : Yes
Forced                                   : Yes

Text #2
ID                                       : 4
Format                                   : UTF-8
Codec ID                                 : S_TEXT/UTF8
Codec ID/Info                            : UTF-8 Plain Text
Title                                    : English
Language                                 : English
Default                                  : No
Forced                                   : No

Menu
00:00:00.000                             : en:00:00:00.000
00:01:54.531                             : en:00:01:54.531
00:10:16.157                             : en:00:10:16.157
00:18:15.511                             : en:00:18:15.511
00:24:27.216                             : en:00:24:27.216
00:31:39.689                             : en:00:31:39.689
00:41:03.670                             : en:00:41:03.670
00:51:21.704                             : en:00:51:21.704

[GregiBoy]

Most encoders will not convert SRT (Text Subtitle), only PGC (BluRay) and SUB/IDX (DVD).

The MP4 spec also does not allow SRT subs.

You can try to get a result by demuxing the subs and muxing them back into the MP4 using tools freely available on the internet.

[rmeyers]

I would rather be able to render the Forced subtitles to the video in DVDFab. It seems like something that should be possible.

[Wilson.Wang]

Text #1
ID : 3
Format : UTF-8
Codec ID : S_TEXT/UTF8
Codec ID/Info : UTF-8 Plain Text
Title : English (Forced)
Language : English
Default : Yes
Forced : Yes

Text #2
ID : 4
Format : UTF-8
Codec ID : S_TEXT/UTF8
Codec ID/Info : UTF-8 Plain Text
Title : English
Language : English
Default : No
Forced : No

Seems like that DVDFab does not support the remux subtitle with UTF-8 codec.
I have been report this to our developer.

Wilson

[tonythetigger]

Hi guys.

I was just wondering if the programmers have gotten to close to adding UTF-8 codec subtitles, yet.

I've also been solving it by extracting it with mkvextract (at the command line) and remuxing it back in, during the conversion with DVDFab v9.2.3.1 (Windows 7 -64bit).

This is far from elegant. Actually, it's a big pain in the butt.

I was going to start a new thread, but found this one with the exact same problem that I have. Hopefully, this will move it up in the queue a bit.

~Michael

[mnd]

Lake of UTF-8 conversion table for subtitles

Hello

DVDfab9 converter is a very good tool except for subtitle characters conversion.
It uses for converting UTF-8 coded subtitles source an ISO-8859-15 table.
Other choices are worst.

As a result, for a french text, a very bad conversion of the accents and lake of some symbols as the apostrophe (').
There is not a good publicity for that product

Here is an example
1 from source TS
2 from DBVFab9 MKV conversion (V9.2.3.7)

best wishes

mnd

[mnd]

Hello

I try to convert UTF-8 subtitle with the choice of ISO-8859-8 as suggested by DVDFab9 support.
The result don't work better, as you see...
It seems that issue should not be solved as long as UTF-8 and ANSI will be "codec unknown" for DVDFab9 converter.

best wishes

mnd

[mnd]

Lake of UTF-8 conversion table for subtitles - follow-up

I forget my DVDfab9 Subtitle parameters
here they are