

Also of note, I pulled all the English subs on the original, so I know there's no 'forced' subtitles on this movie. The list goes on, showing all the chapter entries and such, but we've found the subtitle track, number 3, and it's a standard Blu-Ray PGS subtitle. | + Default duration: 10.667ms (93.750 fps for a video track) | + Default duration: 41.708ms (23.976 fps for a video track) | + Writing application: MakeMKV v1.6.1 linux(圆4-release)

|+ Seek head (subentries will be skipped) We'll use `mkvinfo` to see what tracks are where, first:Ĭode: Select all :~/BD Rips$ mkvinfo title01.mkv sup files.Īs example, I have a freshly-ripped copy of Robin Hood Unrated (2010) here. Once your movie is ripped, use the mkvtoolnix suite of programs to identify, then extract the subtitle files to. This probably will take a while, given the size of the format, as well as the general speed of your Blu-Ray drive, your hard drive, etc. Make sure to place a check for the subtitles before you perform the rip. Using MakeMKV, rip your Blu-Ray movie as you normally would. It plays virtually everything you throw at it. If you prefer to use something else, by all means, have at it Handbrake - Handbrake is an easy-to-use program to re-encode and re-mux your video files into a manageable size. We'll use this to extract the subtitles as-is from the MKV file.īDSup2Sub - This will convert the subtitles into a format usable by most players (such as VLC). Many Linux distributions have this in their repositories on Ubuntu/Debian 'sudo aptitude install mkvtoolnix' will take care of it for you. Mkvtoolnix - This will allow you to extract, merge, and generally play around with the different streams in an MKV file. Make MKV - This will rip the Blu-Ray disk and give you an easy-to-work-with MKV file. This document is generated from a Linux perspective if you use a Mac or Windows environment, you'll need to muddle through a few items to get them to work for you.ġ- Convert the Blu-Ray movie into a large MKV file.Ģ- Strip out the subtitles into separate files.ģ- Convert the subtitles into an easier-to-use format.Ĥ- Re-encode and mux in the subtitle files. While this is wonderful for watching on a Blu-Ray player, most file players have no idea how to deal with them. 1 come to mind), rather they do very fancy subtitles built into the Blu-Ray format. Many Blu-Ray disks do not hard-code any subtitles (Avatar and Kill Bill Vol. This quick How-To will show you how to create a manageable sized MKV file for your Blu-Ray rips, complete with subtitles that will work great in any player you throw them at.
