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In my humble opinion, the creators of such video compression software as Handbrake and VirtualDubMod were very shortsighted for not implimenting the ability to include the closed captioning in the video files that they produce. However, "mkvmerge GUI" could be used to create a single MKV file combining a video file with a closed captioning SRT file created using the method described below. I tried this using a 700 MB AVI file, and it worked perfectly using both VLC Media Player and BSplayer. It only took a few seconds because mkmerge does not do any re-encoding of the video or audio tracks. As an added bonus, the resultant MKV file was 4 MB smaller than the original AVI file. The SRT file within the MKV file solution has the added bonus of allowing you to turn the CC on and off.
If you use a program such as AutoGK to convert a DVD an AVI (video) file, you can include an SRT (subtitle) file of the same name (except for the extension). Then the SRT file will cause subtitles to automatically appear when using video players such as BSplayer, VLC Media Player, or Power DVD. You can use a program such as SubRip to extract the DVD subtitles in order to create the SRT file, but the problem is that many DVDs do not have subtitles. However, many of the DVDs which lack subtitles do include closed captioning (CC). The following are instructions for a good way to extract DVD closed captioning in order to create an SRT file:
1. Use a program such as DVDFab to copy the DVD to your hard drive while simultaneously removing the copy protection.
2. Install VobSub.
3. Run “VobSub Configure.”
4. Click “Open….”
5. Change “Files of type:” to “Ifo and Vobs….”
6. Select the “VTS_0?_0.IFO” file.
7. Select the “VIDEO_TS” folder. (This is where the output files will appear.)
8. If there are items in the right-hand box, select all of them and then click the left arrow.
9. Scroll down to “cc (Not detected).”
10. Select it, and click the right arrow.
11. Click OK.
12. After a few minutes, “Ready!” will appear in a window, and five new files, including two .srt files, will appear in the output folder.
13. Search the “…sub.cc.srt” version of the two .srt files for question marks (“?”). If there are question marks which have been substituted for Unicode characters, such as musical note symbols, then use the “…sub.cc.unicode.srt” version, otherwise, use the “…sub.cc.srt” version.
14. In order to make the Unicode version more compact it could be converted from UTF-16LE to UTF-8. One way to do this would be to load it into a Unicode text editor such as EmEditor, and then save it as a UTF-8 file, making sure that “Add a Unicode Signature (BOM)” is checked.
15. To enhance the format, copy/paste the contents of the newly created .srt file into the top text box in http://LLBest.com/ScriptTextEditor.htm?SI=12, then click “Go,” and then copy/paste the result from the bottom text box. (optional)
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