DVD Catalyst

[angryunibrow]

How do I not include the subtitles in my movie??

I have a video file that has subtitles embedded...and every time I encode it for my phone they show up.

I've unchecked everything I thought was correct!

Can this be done?

if the video fiule is an avi file that has the subs actually encoded into the movie, the only way to remove them (since they actually became part of the movie) is to cut the area off of where they are located.

If you are converting an MKV file that has the subs enabled by default, enable the No Subtitles option in Global Settings > Language

It is an .mkv file.

And I did have that option selected, but the damn subs keep playing in my .mp4 file after it converts.

 

[dvdcatalyst]

It is an .mkv file.

And I did have that option selected, but the damn subs keep playing in my .mp4 file after it converts.

I ran into issues myself with some mkv's that have subs enabled by default, but the checkmark for no-subs took care of that for all of the ones I have. Unless the subtitles are actually burned into the video portion themselves, and not added to the mkv file as seperate subs, this should eliminate them from the conversion.

 

[angryunibrow]

It is an .mkv file.

And I did have that option selected, but the damn subs keep playing in my .mp4 file after it converts.

I ran into issues myself with some mkv's that have subs enabled by default, but the checkmark for no-subs took care of that for all of the ones I have. Unless the subtitles are actually burned into the video portion themselves, and not added to the mkv file as seperate subs, this should eliminate them from the conversion.

I'll try it again, but they are not burned in my default.

I can enable them and disable the subs from the original file using VLC player so they are able to be turned off.

Maybe I missed something..I'll give it another go

 

[Spyte]

Purchased your program this evening, and I must say I am very happy with my purchase. Converted my first movie this evening and while it took me a couple hours, I hadn't expected it to run any quicker. My problem is this, and I beg pardon if it has been posted before but I searched in general and trolled this thread in particular and hadn't found this issue. And now, to business:
After converting the file I transferred and played it on my droid and noticed a peculiarity. The beginning is missing, the middle is at the end, and the end is in the middle. I think the credits are about the only portion of the video in the correct position. The particulars vis a vis (been wanting to use that in a sentence for DAYS) the program itself; I had not downloaded the booster pack at the time, chose droid hq2 for the conversion, did not change any of the preset settings. the DVD itself is just one I had at hand, but it in good condition. the program did bring up a box when starting up saying it detected a non-standard protection system. Any thoughts?

 

[JTAC]

What movie did you convert where you are experiencing those problems?

 

[Spyte]

The movie itself was G I Joe. And I believe it was the chapters themselves that were out of order, i.e. chapter 3 then 2 then 8 then 5 etc though I didn't take the time to inspect it thoroughly.

 

[dvdcatalyst]

The movie itself was G I Joe. And I believe it was the chapters themselves that were out of order, i.e. chapter 3 then 2 then 8 then 5 etc though I didn't take the time to inspect it thoroughly.

Thank you

There are a few DVDs that have a more severe protection system than others. GI Joe is one of them. I have most of them listed on the website in the "problem dvd" group in the menu,.

The protection system (Made by Sony, called ARCCOSS) usually creates fake tracks (up to 99) on the DVD, and in some cases scrambles the scene order to trick DVD conversion tools such as DVD Catalyst. These DVDs also have issues on some stand-alone DVD players as well.
Installing the (free) DVD Catalyst Boosterpack can make some of these DVDs work, but the best way is to install a trial version of AnyDVD or to rip the problematic DVD to your harddisk with dvdfab

Only a very small percentage of DVDs have these issues.

 

[JTAC]

For movies like GI Joe, Star Trek, etc. when they appear out of order like that, it is because the company that made those films used a more in depth security to prevent people from downloading, encoding and redistributing the material (DVD copy protection). What you want to do is Google AnyDVD. Download the trial version (think it's 21 days) and then re-encode the film.

 

[Low Saturn]

Thank you

You can split movies in individual scenes. Basically click on the track that you want to split, and if there are scenes set for the track, a couple of split options will be available at the bottom. Just enable the "split in parts of X scenes" checkmark and start a conversion.

Last night I tried converting and splitting Transformers for my Droid and PSP. Seperatly. Is there supposed to be individual video files? All I get is one large video file and one small M3U file. Also the one I did for the PSP comes back as a unsupported video type.

Any suggestions?

Here is a screenshot of what I'm doing

 

[dvdcatalyst]

if the movie consists of 21 scenes, and you set it to split in PARTS OF 21 scenes, it will just create a single file. If you want individual files, set it to parts of 1 scene. Just enabling the checkmark alone is sufficient. No need to enable the start-scene stop scene selection.

As for the PSP file, it should just work, as long as the PSP has a firmware of 3.xx or higher (they are on 5 now) and the video file is located in a folder called VIDEO directly on the memorycard.
PSP files can not exceed 480x272, unless they are exactly 720x480

 

[devil94]

Multiple DVD Tracks

There are typically multiple tracks on a DVD. For example, Matrix has 9 tracks (see attachment). I've been removing all but the first track for conversion - should I be doing something with the other tracks?

 

[dvdcatalyst]

There are typically multiple tracks on a DVD. For example, Matrix has 9 tracks (see attachment). I've been removing all but the first track for conversion - should I be doing something with the other tracks?

DVD Catalyst finds all the video tracks that are on the DVD (by default it filters out everything less than 10 minutes in length to not show most special features and trailers, but this can be adjusted in Global Settings > DVD)
Some DVDs report some fake tracks, or the video content is actually on the DVD multiple times.

A track on a DVD is actually more of a playlist file. It links to the actual video files (the vob files) on the DVD. Some TV Show DVDs have a "Play All" Track, as well as all the episodes seperate. The play-all track is basically just a playlist that has the seperate episodes listed. The actual video for the episodes is on the DVD only once.

You can enable the "Automatic Movie/Episode recognition" option in Global Settings > DVD, which will have DVD Catalyst go through the tracks it finds, and enable what it thinks is only the movie or enable only the individual episodes, however, due to a lot of different structures DVDs have in regards of tracks they contain, it's not full-proof. It is a better method than just removing the tracks you dont want though.

Rather than removing them, you can also select the tracks in DVD Catalyst you do not want, and remove the checkmark for "enable for conversion" this will tell DVD Catalyst to not convert them. The movie/episode checkmark does this in a similar behavior.

 

[spillner]

I just got catalyst 3 and its taking over an hour to rip a 2hr 13min movie. My laptop is very fast, don't know why its so slow.

 

[Low Saturn]

I just got catalyst 3 and its taking over an hour to rip a 2hr 13min movie. My laptop is very fast, don't know why its so slow.

I wish my computer was that fast. 3 hours and 15 minutes to rip a 2.5 hour movie on my six year old Dell desktop. Just under one hour 45 minutes on my 8 month old HP laptop.

I just start it up before going to bed. Its ready to be transferred to the Droid in the morning.

 

[spillner]

I just got catalyst 3 and its taking over an hour to rip a 2hr 13min movie. My laptop is very fast, don't know why its so slow.

I wish my computer was that fast. 3 hours and 15 minutes to rip a 2.5 hour movie on my six year old Dell desktop. Just under one hour 45 minutes on my 8 month old HP laptop.

I just start it up before going to bed. Its ready to be transferred to the Droid in the morning.

I have a 5 gig duo core processor with 5gig of ram. It should fly