Video_TS folders and subtitles

Hey everyone,
I have been trying to figure out a way to get the best result for my media center as well as simply taking movies with me on the road with optimum quality. I have looked at Handbrake, but even from a time perspective it takes like 2x the time to encode with Handbrake versus ripping with Mactheripper.
I have run into a bit of a snag that I am hoping someone may have the answer to; as I am only needing the movies, not the menus, I have been using MTR's "Main Feature Only" function and made sure that I only have the audio tracks and subtitle tracks in English. The forced subtitles do not appear in Front Row 2.0 at all. If I do the same rip, but as a "Full Disc Extraction" the forced subtitles are there and acting properly.
Thoughts? I really don't want to waste the extra space (and time) with the menu systems, what may MTR or Front Row not be doing right with the Main Feature Only function?
Thanks!

W. Brendan Waller wrote:
Hey everyone,
I have been trying to figure out a way to get the best result for my media center as well as simply taking movies with me on the road with optimum quality. I have looked at Handbrake, but even from a time perspective it takes like 2x the time to encode with Handbrake versus ripping with Mactheripper.
I have run into a bit of a snag that I am hoping someone may have the answer to; as I am only needing the movies, not the menus, I have been using MTR's "Main Feature Only" function and made sure that I only have the audio tracks and subtitle tracks in English. The forced subtitles do not appear in Front Row 2.0 at all. If I do the same rip, but as a "Full Disc Extraction" the forced subtitles are there and acting properly.
Thoughts? I really don't want to waste the extra space (and time) with the menu systems, what may MTR or Front Row not be doing right with the Main Feature Only function?
Thanks!
DVDs use a bitmap image to draw the subtitles. If you rip the entire DVD with the DVD menu, then you can via the DVD menu activate an instruction to turn on the subtitles. If you only rip the title then you lose the menu to do this. iTunes, Apple TV (and iPhone) can now be told to 'always' show subtitles but they do not support playing DVDs or VOB files. Front Row has no options at all regarding turning on or off subtitles, when playing a DVD it is the DVD software that does this.
If you have a DivX and a separate .srt text subtitle file then Perian will automatically display the subtitles in software that uses QuickTime (including Front Row).
You can use HandBrake or Submerge to permanently burn subtitles in to the movie image, but this requires encoding the DVD to another format which as you mentioned takes time.
If you want a media manager friendly front-end, and you do not want to have to store the entire DVD, then Front Row is not the right choice. Instead you should look at Plex which is a Mac version of XBMC.
Plex will let you add a collection of either main feature only Rips of DVDs, or even better for this, it will also let you add standalone VOB files (which MTR can make by doing a Title/Chapter rip and merging the chapters, this produces a single VOB file for each rip). These VOB files still contain all the video unconverted, all the audio (even multiple audio tracks), and all the subtitles.
However, Plex (or XBMC) will allow you through it's built-in controls to turn on or off the subtitles, and select alternate audio tracks, even without the DVD menu.
I have used Plex with TV episodes ripped from DVDs and saved as individual VOBs (no VIDEO_TS needed) and it works great. I believe VLC should also be able to play these and possibly let you select the subtitles, but it does not have a library management capability.
See http://www.plexapp.com

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