I would like to be able to make a DVD5 set of the Despecialized Editions that has subtitles accessible by the remote.
I already understand that there will be no menus with this version and I’m fine with that.
If I am understanding the term correctly, to achieve this, I need to “mux” a chosen subtitle stream into the finished VIDEO_TS folder, then burn the “remuxed” project to DVD, all using the instructions in the Project Threepio README file as seen below.
But I’m getting confused with step 5. Using the […] button on the right hand side of MuxMan doesn’t seem to find any of the video files in the VIDEO_TS folder. And I’m not sure what to look for with the audio stream.
Plus once I have selected the proper files for video, do I need to do anything with the aspect ratio settings in the 2 “Pref” drop-down menus? Same question goes for the “Language”, “Extension”, and “Delay” drop-down menus in the Audio section?
Thanks for the help!
Sorry for the delay in responding, I don’t browse very often down here and probably should.
MuxMan is looking for raw video and audio streams – i.e. *.m2v and *.ac3 files. An already-packaged DVD has these files already muxed into a series of VOB files.
So what you need to do is merge the VOB files into one giant VOB file (using something like VOBmerge) and then use a VOB extraction utility to extract the video and audio files. Once you’re dealing with the unpackaged raw streams, MuxMan repackages them (with the subtitles) into a new folder structure containing a different set of VOB files.
Keep in mind, subtitles in the DVD format are aliased and not quite as easy on the eyes as other formats.