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I've been working with subrip for about a week now, and I'm getting knowhere! I have read countless step by step guides, but for some reason, the video files that I extract from my TPM dvd do not contain the subtitles needed. What I'm trying to get is from chapter 14 {Watto's shop} when the characters talk in different languages. Did I do something wrong when going through DVD decrypter are something? Please help!
"Death Has Come To Your Small Town Sheriff" Dr. Sam Loomis-Halloween
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Hm, and I thought SubRip is souch a primitive program, it took me only a couple of minutes tolearn how to use it.

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the video files that I extract from my TPM dvd do not contain the subtitles needed

Are you trying to say that you have ripped only the VIDEO stream from the DVD ? What do you have on your harddisk, a m2v file or a directory named VIDEO_TS containing ifo, bup and vob files ?
Beacause if you have ripped only the video or in general ripped the DVD in IFO mode, there is the problem.
VOB files contain 3 types of streams - video, audio and subpicture (used for subtitles and menu buttons) streams. To correctly use SubRip you must rip the DVD in DVDDecrypter's FILE MODE, then load the main movie's ifo file in SubRip, then select the correct subpicture stream (I guess you want to use English - forced) and you can start, it's really easy.

If this doesn't help please write exactly what you are doing (NOT what you WANT to do) and what error occurs (if any).
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I imported the video files with dvd decrypter, using the IFO mode with file splitting to none. I then fixed the GOP of the videos with Womble. I imported both audio and video to womble and made my edits, then exported it. Everything worked, except I have no subtitles when alien characters speak. What am I doing wrong?
"Death Has Come To Your Small Town Sheriff" Dr. Sam Loomis-Halloween
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I see.

The subtitles are NOT a part of the video stream, they are encoded as a separate subpicture stream.

Also, SubRip needs to work with VOB files, so you have to rip the DVD in DVDDecrypter's FILE mode also !!!

If you only use the video and audio streams in Womble, you will of course NOT see the subtitles.
One possible solution : start Subrip, use it to open the main movie's IFO file (located in the directory with the VOB files )and let SubRip create its' index files. You should see a window with a pull-down menu containing the list of available subpicture streams. Choose english - forced. Then click on the start button to start the action. SubRip will go through the VOB file(s) and search for a subtitle in the selected stream. When it finds some subtitle, it asks you, what letter is it . When the process finishes save the text file in srt format.

Now you have a text subtitle file in srt format synched with the ORIGINAL video. That means if you do some edits in Womble, you have to correct the timings in the srt file. I don't know if Womble supports straight text subtitles, but if not, you have to use some subtitle editor (like Subtitle WOrkshop - free) to do the same "edits".

When you have the correctly synchronized the text subtitle to your video file, you can use your favorite DVD authoring applicaion for creating the new DVD. But please keep in mind, that you can not use text subtitles on a DVD, you have to convert the text file (srt) to a subpicture stream file (sup). This can be done either in DVDLabPro in the authoring phase or in many freeware applications, like Subtitle Studio or DVDSupTools.
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Originally posted by: pittrek
I see.
you have to use some subtitle editor (like Subtitle Workshop - free) to do the same "edits".


Further to pittrek's advice,
If you use Subtitle Workshop, it doesn't like big mpeg-2 files being used as a preview for some reason. It causes timing issues with the subtitles (some are in synch, some not).
What I do is do an export the project out of Womble again but to a VCD mpeg-1 file, and use this file as the preview in Subtitle Workshop instead. The subtitle file should then synch fine with the exported mpeg-2 file you already created.

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