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Post #570744

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CatBus
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Project Threepio (Star Wars OOT subtitles)
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18-Mar-2012, 5:35 PM

Sure, keep in mind that this project is designed for the "supply-side", for the creators of preservations, so that in the long run you may not have to do this for yourself.  So the tools used for this may be unfamiliar to you.

The main data files on a Blu Ray/AVCHD are the M2TS files, and the main data files on a DVD are the VOB files.  Each file contains multiple "streams"--typically a video stream and a few audio streams.  They can also contain subpicture streams, which is where subtitles are stored.

You can demux these files, which means extract all of the individual streams, and you can mux them, which means merge them together into a VOB or M2TS file.

It looks like you're dealing with the DVD downscale of Harmy's Despecialized Edition.  You'll need a tool like vobmerge to take all of the individual VOB files and make them into one big merged VOB file.  Then you can use a tool like PGCDemux to extract the video and audio streams.

At that point you can just use muxman to merge them back together into a DVD folder structure, and you just add in the SUP files (*NOT* the SRT files!) as subtitle streams.  You can find some rudimentary instructions for this in the _dvd_workflow.txt file, toward the end.  Just be sure to specify a language and select the LB and Wide options for each subtitle.

If you want to do this with a Blu Ray or AVCHD, just do the exact same thing, except the software you use is called tsmuxergui, which does both the demuxing and the muxing.

The SUP files for DVDs are in the "SUP-NTSC DVD" folder, and the SUP files for Blu Rays and AVCHDs are in the "SUP-720p" folder.

You may be able to do something simpler, more like what you were trying to do initially, where you play back the files and point the player software at the SRT files.  But frankly I'm not sure how well that will work out, and I'm sure it won't look as nice as I intended (all special formatting may be lost, font size may not be right, leading to extra line wraps, etc).  Nevertheless, I believe you may be able to merge the VOB files into one big VOB file, as described above, and then you can just play that with VLC pointed at the SRT files.  VLC won't get confused when jumping to the next VOB file because there won't be a next VOB file.  But I haven't tested that and if it doesn't work there's not much help I can offer--that wasn't really how these files were designed to be used.

Hope that helps!