For instance, in the beginning of The Hunt for Red October (1990) they speak Russian on the Red October. Almost always this is when a character is speaking in another language but it is important for the viewer to understand what they're saying. mkv files from the backup strategy also makes it easy to rip the various 'extras' on many blu-rays and include them in Plex.įorced subtitles is a term used to describe subtitles that should play even when subtitles are not turned on. Renaming existing tracks, however, only takes a second or two.Īs a side note, the make a backup and create. mkv file, but it involves remuxing the file, which means it takes just as long as running MakeMKV from a backup again (a couple minutes). MKVToolNix includes tools that'll let up remove a track from your. Once I'm satisfied, I keep my 'final' rip and discard the rest. I then adjust MakeMKV as necessary and the make the final rip, which again only takes a couple of minutes. mkv file to discover the details of the subtitles and audio tracks. This takes only a minute or two since I'm reading from and writing the output to a fast SSD. Next, I open the backup in MakeMKV and rip the movie. This takes a while since it is reading from the optical disc. The best way I've found to do this is to first create a backup of a disc with MakeMKV. I, for instance, don't keep the descriptive audio tracks that many movies have. You have to puzzle out which subtitle track is which and which audio track(s) are worth keeping. mkv files without any extra stuff, you still have the same problem.
Since things like subtitle tracks of pretty small, this strategy won't cost much in terms of space even though you're likely to end up with an extra subtitle track or two. Unfortunately, there are no standard setups you can rely to figure it out from the structure of the disc. In order to do this, you'll have to view at least a couple minutes of the ripped file to be able to puzzle out which track is what. Using tools like mkvpropedit means you can rip the file once, with all the subtitles and then name the subtitle tracks as necessary once you figure out which track is which. From the rip above, the command line for changing that track's title would be: There are GUIs available for the MKVToolNix tools, but I prefer the command line. It is also possible to name tracks after the fact with mkvpropedit which is part of the MKVToolNix tools. This method only requires reading from the optical disc once.
Changing names with Expert mode enabled That usually involves either ripping the disc more than once or making a backup and then creating. It is possible to name those tracks in MakeMKV when you rip. They're the ones that included non-dialog information along with the dialog of the movie. SDH Subtitles are subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing. You'll also notice that I'd titled that subtitle track as SDH Subtitles. That subtitle track takes up 37.4 MB in the roughly 30GB rip. I don't need that but when ripping the disc, I don't have time to painfully identify which audio file the commentary is & make sure it isn't selected, so it gets thrown in with everything else.Ĭodec ID/Info : Picture based subtitle format used on BDs/HD-DVDs
KEEP ORGINAL FILENAME MAKEMKV BATCH MOVIE
For example - Bruce Lee's Fist of Fury, one of the audios is them talking over the movie as it plays along, talking about the history of it etc. I'm not sure what that gets me as far as subtitles go but as far as audio goes, I know that also includes for example, commentary over the movie. Some movies have very few English audio/subtitle entries, some have so many - so on that note, to cover all bases, I just check everything English. Since I began I just checked everything that said English purely based on the fact that I don't have time to rip a movie, see which audio got ripped, what the subtitles are like, rip it again with something different, check it again, rip it again, check it again. I imagine subtitle files don't take up a lot of space (maybe I'm wrong?) but even still, I would like to keep my rips to a minimum - including everything I need but nothing that I don't need.
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