Thanks for responding Nicolas. > On 2022.0428, at 14:01, Nicolas George <geo...@nsup.org> wrote: > > Michael Mueck via ffmpeg-user (12022-04-28): >> I have decrypted and ripped all of my DVDs into individual VIDEO_TS >> structures for just the main movie or an individual TV episode. Each >> move or TV episode consists of a VIDEO_TS folder containing the >> original uncompressed >> VIDEO_TS.IFO, VTS_01_0.IFO and VTS_01_[1->N].VOB files. > > This is already wrong. The VOB files do not map directly to the video > parts of the contents. If you do that, you will get also all the menu > crap in your resulting file.
The ripping software that I used dealt with that i.e. all the VOB files are categorically only for the main movie (or a given episode) and there are no menus at all. Notice that all my VOB files reference the same stream and the 1->N part is just the sequentially numbered sequence of 1GB files. > Also, the subtitles palette is not in the VOB files. Agreed, but for now I'm focusing on just getting the forced subtitles working right. > You can generate a concat script to access the DVD hierarchy correctly > using the dvd2concat script in the tools directory. > > It is entirely possible that doing so would fix your issue. do I still need to do this given the above response? (I'll look into dvd2concat after sending this email). > Also, do not re-encode the subtitles, use -c copy, it will be more > reliable. I'm not sure how I latched onto the dvdsub codec, but I did just now try "copy" and I get the same good result when using an MKV as the input. However I get a curiously different result when using the VOB input with the "copy" subtitle codec - instead of an empty subtitle track I now get full-time English subtitles but the subtitle track is for stream 7 instead of stream 6! Stream 6 was the regular English subtitle track (that contained embedded forced subtitles) and Stream 7 is the English SDH subtitle track. That's weird! Slightly off-topic: Is it really true that ffmpeg can't handle a standard DVD file structure (especially if everything is decrypted)? > > Regards, > > -- > Nicolas George _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-user mailing list ffmpeg-user@ffmpeg.org https://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-user To unsubscribe, visit link above, or email ffmpeg-user-requ...@ffmpeg.org with subject "unsubscribe".