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I'm trying to rip a foreign film DVD, Yojimbo, that has subtitles. I'd like to have the film as a file I can play on my computer and also create a DVD I can play in a player. I'd like subtitles available with both these versions. I'd like the picture to fill my widescreen TV and widescreen monitor.
I used MakeMKV. This gave me the subtitles, but the picture was letter boxed as shown below.
I've tried using Handbrake, but when I select "Add All" in the Subtitles tab the encoding stops after a few seconds (just 0.26%) and the status bar shows "Encoding Finished". I tried ripping without the subtitles, but VLC can't play the 5GB mp4 file created by Handbrake.
@slhck Sorry, in Subtitles tab do I need to select "Add All"? The problem is when I do this the encoding operation finishes after about 30 seconds and the file produced has no video in it. I'm thinking if I don't select Add All I won't get any subtitles though. – Toshirô Mifune – 2012-11-30T13:48:41.397
@ToshirôMifune What do you mean by writing it to DVD? Do you mean be small enough to fit on a DVD? I also don't really understand your goal. You want 1) an MP4 2) subtitles 3) the edges of the film to touch the edges of your screen? Is that correct? – Louis – 2012-11-30T14:07:18.467
@Louis I've updated the question. Not bothered about MP4 just want something that ideally fills my widescreen monitor, a DVD I can put in a player, and subtitles with both. – Toshirô Mifune – 2012-11-30T14:12:35.800
@ToshirôMifune Okay, I think if you OCR the subtitles with something like SubRip, creating an SRT text file (instead of what appear above to be in an image format). Using the SRT file with Handbrake sounds like a quick fix for you. But like slhck was saying, I don't think it's a good idea to encode with MakeMKV and reencode again with Handbreak. If that doesn't work out, I've actually been putting off doing this with a bunch of DVDs. I'll go through how I do one and post the steps. – Louis – 2012-11-30T14:24:41.097