[Taken 2008 Extended Cut 3li Bluray 720p English Subtitles
Christel Malden
The subtitles on a normal disc are in a PNG format and the WD media players do not recognize this format. First, you have to be able to get the subtitles in a non forced format. Leawo makes a great program called Blu-ray to MKV Converter. This program will allow you to convert the disc to MKV format with the subtitles attached and not forced. Then you have to get the subtitles off of the MKV file and thankfully, there is a program for this (of course) called Subtitle Edit. This beautiful little program will allow you to take subtitles off your file and convert them to the SRT format that the WD media players do recognize. Now you may ask, once I have the subtitles off and converted, how do I put them back on? Great question. I asked it myself, and I found that the wonderful people at MKVToolNix have a software program for that!
The original subtitles of Blu-ray movies are hard subtitles that are written on top of the image permanently. They can not be turned on or off like on the DVD. Only software subtitles that have been added external that will appear as separate select-able tracks in your output file. With the correct playback software, you will be able to enable/disable these subtitles as required.
Hey man, it seems that you know well about MKV problems. May I ask you a question here: i am using this software ( -dvd-to-mkv.html) to convert my DVD files to iPhone. The output image is okay but the sound is out of sync. Somebody told me it was casued by the software itself. However, I have used it several times before and they all worked well. Does anyone has an idea how to deal with this problem? I am not sure whether MKV and iPhone is compatible with each other.
So many years ago, I went through an extended process of decided which type of file extension I wanted. After testing all that I could do with my software, I decided for the size of the file and the picture quality I wanted, MKV was what worked best. Silly me did not think about needing subtitles at the time because how many movies have a foreign language at some point in the movie right? Just kidding. Way, way more that I ever dreamed.