[Spinalcrack]

Ok, it happened again, to the movie "AI" this time, but I'm not too worried about it.

New problem:

I've ripped about 6 or 7 movies now and they all have subtitles attached and defaulted to ON if I don't compress them with handbrake. If I do use handbrake, it gets rid of the subtitles completely. I have quite a bit of space and the compression takes a long time. I have somewhere between 400 - 500 dvds to rip so i thought for now I'd just leave them uncompressed. If i open them in VLC and right click the video, I can turn the subtitles off, but I can't seem to find any settings in XBMC that will default to subtitles off.

I know you said the makemkv program just rips any stream longer than 1 hour, but do you have any idea why it is also is taking the subtitles every time?

Thanks

Ya makemkv rips the subtitles to, but as you said you can turn them off. To have them default to off in XBMC do this. Start playing any video, and take the mouse pointer to the bottom of the screen. The play/Stop etc controls will come up. On the right hand side there is an Audio icon. Click that. Go down to where it says Enable Subtitles and there is a radio button that is on. Unselect that to disable subtitle and then go further down and select set as default for all movies.

You can still turn them back on for individual movies / shows, but it will now default to having the subtitles off. You kinda want subtitles anyways because in some movies that are say in English, there will be Spanish or Japanese parts etc that you will want just that snippet for.

If you want to keep the subtitles in the compressed file you need to add the subtitle option in your AutoRipDVD.bat file. The two main options are

-N, --native-language Specifiy your language preference. When the first
<string> audio track does not match your native language then
select the first subtitle that does. When used in
conjunction with --native-dub the audio track is
changed in preference to subtitles. Provide the
language's iso639-2 code (fre, eng, spa, dut, et cetera)
--native-dub Used in conjunction with --native-language
requests that if no audio tracks are selected the
default selected audio track will be the first one
that matches the --native-language. If there are no
matching audio tracks then the first matching
subtitle track is used instead.

So you would need to change this line:

Code:

Set QUALITY=--ab 64 --mixdown mono --quality 23 -e x264 -x %X264%

to

Code:

Set QUALITY=--ab 64 --N eng --mixdown mono --quality 23 -e x264 -x %X264%

or something other than "eng" if you want the subs in another language. There are a lot of options for Handbrake, especially with the sound and subtitles. You can add the options to the QUALITY like in AutoRipDVD.bat. All options can be found here: https://trac.handbrake.fr/wiki/CLIGuide


I still do not understand why you are getting two files when compressing though. What seems weird is that it's not doing that every time or is it?