[Mattgc92]

Hey,

For my DVD and TV show collection, I was hoping to find a better file container to use - currently I am using .VOB.

A few things to note/requirements:
- For my media PC, file storage is not an issue.
- I am looking to get the best video/audio quality from ripping the DVDs.
- I need to have forced subtitles, i.e. only the subtitle parts that are needed when non-English dialogue is spoken.

I have had a few issues using .VOB in that the file lengths appear to be 26 hours, which means I can not use the seek function. Some files I can not use the pause function because when resuming, it restarts. Finally, with a few DVDs, it has proven very difficult to get the forced subtitles.

Because of these requirements and issues with .VOB, i'm looking to re-rip my collection to a new format/container.

Which file container should I use, and what programs would you recommend using to get the DVDs into this container?

Thanks,
Matt

[ConfusedTA]

I would suggest MKV. Converting DVDs and BluRays can be done quite nicely with MakeMKV - you can select which bits to keep and throw away (for example, I remove all foreign languages and extra features) - it does not transcode any video or audio, so you will have zero drop in quality.

[jjd-uk]

I'd agree with the above, mkv's made with MakeMKV is how I do it as well.

[Prof Yaffle]

The venerable old DVDShrink still works well for this sort of thing as well, and can produce a non-compliant, single VOB per disc (i.e. ignoring the 1Gb limit) if you wish.

mkv is my container of choice, though, although I compress everything to H.264 en route since the space is more valuable than the small bit of time a squashed DVD takes.

If you have the original DVD images on HDD already, I think either makemkv or DVDShrink will read those, so you don't have to re-rip: you're only re-wrapping into a different container, not re-encoding, so it'll practically take no longer than copying the contents to a new file.

[winestock]

Hey,

For my DVD and TV show collection, I was hoping to find a better file container to use - currently I am using .VOB.

A few things to note/requirements:
- For my media PC, file storage is not an issue.
- I am looking to get the best video/audio quality from ripping the DVDs.
- I need to have forced subtitles, i.e. only the subtitle parts that are needed when non-English dialogue is spoken.

I have had a few issues using .VOB in that the file lengths appear to be 26 hours, which means I can not use the seek function. Some files I can not use the pause function because when resuming, it restarts. Finally, with a few DVDs, it has proven very difficult to get the forced subtitles.

Because of these requirements and issues with .VOB, i'm looking to re-rip my collection to a new format/container.

Which file container should I use, and what programs would you recommend using to get the DVDs into this container?

Thanks,
Matt

Before you go and re-rip all your DVDs try converting your DVDs to be stored as a ISO image. You can try it on one of your DVDs and see how it works. This is free and works for Windows: http://www.nextofwindows.com/create-an-i...text-menu/. By the way, I use ISO image for all my DVDs.

[protocol77]

mkv is good i used to use this a lot however lately i have been using mp4 so i can easily transfer to my ipad or iphone without re-converting

[Penge58]

Do you get DTS sound when you convert to MKV ?

Is MKV a compressed file format and if so...what is it compressing ?

[ConfusedTA]

MKV is purely a container. You can put into an MKV almost whatever you want. You can simply store the original video/audio data, or you can use another application to first compress to another format.

Using MakeMKV with a DVD or BluRay - you can select exactly which video, audio and subtitle streams to include. I typically include the main feature, audio in DTS-HD/TrueHD and DTS Core, as well as any forced subtitles for English.

Anything else - intro videos, extra features, extra languages, all get removed.

[Mattgc92]

I would suggest MKV. Converting DVDs and BluRays can be done quite nicely with MakeMKV - you can select which bits to keep and throw away (for example, I remove all foreign languages and extra features) - it does not transcode any video or audio, so you will have zero drop in quality.

I'd agree with the above, mkv's made with MakeMKV is how I do it as well.

I have downloaded MakeMKV, for DVDs with forced subtitles, where are they located, can they easily be found?

Also when ripping with makeMKV, do you get chapter selection?

Thanks

[Mattgc92]

All the profiles in my MakeMKV, default, FLAC and WDTV have ignoreForcedSubtitlesFlag="true" under mkvSettings

What does this line mean, does it mean that it ignores forced subtitles?

If so, how can I change this? It wont let me save this using Notepad++, I get a save error, saying I need to check if the file is open in another program, yet MakeMKV is not open.

[jjd-uk]

I just follow the steps in this guide http://assassinhtpcblog.com/?page_id=39#guide3