Just add a subtitle [LWN.net]

Just add a subtitle

Posted Jan 3, 2008 14:10 UTC (Thu) by NAR (subscriber, #1313)
Parent article: The Grumpy Editor's video journey part 3: DVD authoring

Hello!

Is there a tool that just grabs a DVD (with menus, subtitles, etc.), lets me add a new
language subtitle, then burns the whole back to a DVD? There are a lots of really cheap DVDs
(less than 4 euros) in the supermarket, but sometimes they don't have Hungarian audio or
subtitle. However, subtitles can be downloaded, so these DVDs could be "upgraded" to be
enjoyable by non-English speakers too.

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Re: Just add a subtitle

Posted Jan 3, 2008 19:07 UTC (Thu) by guinan (subscriber, #4644) [Link]

The dvdauthor package includes "dvdunauthor", which basically takes the structure from an existing DVD, and writes out an XML file that can be edited then fed back to dvdauthor. Can't remember if it extracts the data too, see "vobcopy" and other tools if not.