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subtitles on psp?
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lordv88
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3. May 2006 @ 21:03 |
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i have like japanese anime that i wanna watch on my psp..
i have the avi and smi(subtitle)...but how do i put them together so that if i play avi the subtitles show up? i've looked into subtitles section of this forum..but they only talk about mergin subtitles wen they burn a DVD
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4. May 2006 @ 09:39 |
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DVD to PSP with subtitles
Many movies on DVD have subtitles known as ?forced subtitles?, which are shown even if you have subtitles turned off. These are used mostly for translations e.g. the Elvish in Lord Of The Rings or the Pai Mei sequences in Kill Bill.
Step 1
Install Software
You will need to obtain and install the following software:
* VLC Media Player 0.8.4a Website Download
* DVD Decrypter 3.5.4.0 Website Download
* VirtualDubMod 1.5.10.2 Website Download
* VobSub 2.23 Website Download (note: the virtualdub plugins must be installed)
* PSP Video 9 1.74 Website Download
* XviD 1.0.3 Website Download
To give some idea of timescales, I?ll include details of how long it takes me to transcode the 2 hour 51 minute film The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring (FOTR) on a standard 2.66 GHz / 256 MB RAM computer. Shorter films and faster computers will transcode faster.
Step 2
Gather information about the DVD
Open VLC Media Player, select File / Open Disc?, set the disc type to DVD (menus) and click OK. Navigate through the DVD menus and start the main film playing.
Now you need to find out which streams are being used. While the movie is playing, choose Audio / Audio Track and write down the number of the selected track. Do the same for the Video / Video Track and Video / Subtitles Track menus. For FOTR, this is video track 1, audio track 1 and subtitle track 2.
If the subtitles track is set to disable, then the film does not contain forced subtitles. If the subtitles are disabled by default, or you do not want the forced subtitles, you can skip step 4.
Step 3
Decrypting the DVD
Open DVD Decrypter and select Mode / IFO. Change the file splitting size under Tools / Settings? / IFO Mode / Options and set File Splitting to None. Click OK.
Back in the main window go to the Input tab and expand the entire tree in the topmost window. There should be a list of PGC files ? these correspond to the individual videos on the DVD. There will normally be a number of files of just a few seconds or minutes (these correspond to menus or extras). There will be one file that is much longer than any of the others ? this is the main movie file. Select it.
Now go to the Stream Processing tab and check Enable Stream Processing. Uncheck everything except for the streams you wrote down in step 2. For example, with FOTR the checked streams should be the first video one, the first audio one and the second subtitle one. The second audio and first subtitle streams should be unchecked.
On the left-hand side of the main window, click the folder icon and make sure the DVD is being ripped to a folder on a hard disk with more than 10Gb of free space. Finally, click the large DVD to Hard Disk button. The process takes under 30 minutes for LOTR so don?t wander too far.
Step 4
Embedding the subtitles (skip if no subtitles)
DVDs have subtitles stored as a stack of images that are ?layered? over the main video at the right times. The PSP can?t do this kind of subtitling, so we need to get these images and embed them into the actual video itself.
Open VirtualDubMod and select File / Open video file?. Go to the folder that you just decrypted the DVD to. Open the file called VTS_??_?.VOB, where the question marks are numbers depending on the format of the original DVD. It will be a large file of several gigabytes, so it will probably take a few minutes to open the file ? faster if you have more RAM.
In order to save time at this stage, you can resize the video now so that the encoder doesn?t have to do as much work. Go to Video / Filters? to open the filters list. From here, click Add? to add a filter. Select the resize filter and click OK. The resize filter settings will appear.
Depending on the original movie, there are two different sets of dimensions you should enter. If it?s a 16:9 or widescreen movie, you need to enter 368 wide by 208 high. If it?s 4:3 or standard sized movie, enter 320 wide by 240 high.
You can also change the filter mode if you require. Nearest neighbour is the fastest but worst quality resizing, bicubic is the best but slowest and bilinear is somewhere inbetween. Seeing as the video will be compressed a second time, bicubic normally isn?t worth the extra time required. It takes me 90 minutes to convert FOTR using nearest neighbour and 120 minutes using bilinear, so if you can spare the extra time it?s worth setting it to bilinear for the extra quality. After you?ve done this, click OK.
To add the subtitles, we need another filter. Click Add? again and select the VobSub filter. Click OK, and the Vobsub filter settings will appear. Click Open? to select a subtitle file. By default, it will look for *.idx and *.sub files, which we don?t have yet. Change the filetype to *.ifo and select the VTS_??_?.IFO file from the directory you ripped the DVD to. When prompted for a save folder, choose the DVD directory again. It will then spend a few minutes extracting the subtitles to this folder. When done, click OK to return to the VobSub settings. There will be a drop-down menu, listing all the subtitle tracks. As we already stripped out all the subtitle tracks we didn?t want earlier, there will be one subtitle track listed and all the rest as (Not detected). Select the listed one and click OK.
Note: the order the filters are applied is important. If the subtitles are applied first and resized, they will be distorted and look ugly.
Now we?re ready to transcode the movie. Go to File / Save As?, go to the folder you originally ripped the DVD to and name the movie output.avi. At the bottom of the window under video, set video mode to full processing mode. Next to compression, click Change? and a list of encoders will appear. Select the XviD MPEG-4 encoder and click Configure.
The XviD configuration is quite complicated, but you only need to change a couple of things. Set encoding type to single pass and target bitrate (kbps) to 2000 (if you see a button labelled target quantizer, click it to change it to target bitrate). Setting the bitrate this high takes a lot of hard disk space (about 2 GB for FOTR), but will mean that a second encoding will not hurt the quality of the movie too much. Click OK to back to the encoder selection and click OK again to go back to the save dialog. Click Save to start the transcoding process.
Step 5
Converting to PSP format
http://www.ravenlifepsp.co.uk/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewto...
In this case it will be the AVI file created before hand that u convert.
Once this process is complete, plug in your PSP and go to the Copy window. The movie will have a cryptic filename but will be recognizable from the ?Title? column. Transfer the file to the PSP and you?re done ? DVD to PSP with subtitles!
This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 4. May 2006 @ 09:47
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