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Member 7989122 wrote: I know that DVD/BD players are cheap nowadays, but can you really get one for $19 where you live?
$19, no, but $39 for refurbished on Amazon, yes . . . and for that small expenditure you eliminate having to spend your time ripping the discs.
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Freemake used to be damn good - but suddenly they got greedy, and want you to pay for the "speed up option" (which means it uses your GPU, like the previous version did for free), and then again for that option, the other option, ... total ripoff.
I'm using WinX HD and Avidemux instead these days.
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True - though in fairness their pricess are not outrageous, and they're still the best (I've found) for downloading videos off the Internet (YouTube et al)
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I think what really p*ss*d me off was forcing an update on me without telling me it would degrade the product (unless I started stumping up money - which I was about to pay until I found it doesn't give you everything I had before without another payment, and another...)
So I decided "sod you" and looked for something else.
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There are like half a dozen youtube download plugins for Firefox that work great. 
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I already got one , it would have to be my friend buying one, and it would have to be a BD player
So...is the price of a Blu-ray player worth the hassle of taking yours with you every time you go visit your friend to watch something? If it was me, I'd just buy a cheap player and leave it at my friend's place. Electronics like these, especially those with moving parts, don't particularly like being moved around all the time and could die a premature death. Or a connector might break before that happens.
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Learning Finish? The last movie I watched with my friend was "Rare Exports Inc." - a Christmas horror movie. Or horror comedy, if you prefer. Absolutely worth watching!
If I count the number of spoken languages across my shelves of movies, there is at least 25-30 of them, maybe more. And then comes all the English... Some DVDs allow you to select subtitle language, but not turn it off; subtitling is mandatory. The first movie on the Norwegian market was "Oh brother, where art thou?", and it was commented by lots of people that for that movie, it really wasn't too annoying that the spoken "English" was subtitled
Extracting .srt files (or the text in any format) from DVD/BDs is based on OCR, character recognition, which usually has a very high error frequency; it is hardly worth it. It is usually faster typing the text manually from the screen image. (You use the converter to get the .srt time stamps, and then replace the garbled text contents with your own copy off the screen.)
I guess that this "Freemake", recommended by A_Griffin (I already sent away my USD 19 for the Premium Freemake, but won't have a chance to try it until I return home after work) treats the subtitle track "as is", as a graphical overlay, without attempting to recognize the text.
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I also used Handbrake when I still had disks. It's open source and allows you to select the audio track(s) and subtitle(s). You can also give it a shot.
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Member 7989122 wrote:
Is there any software out there that allows me to rip the movie to MPEG4, with the subtitle track of my choice, and preferably the sound track of my choice?
Yes. Check out Leawo.
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I can thoroughly recommend WinX DVD Ripper WinX DVD Ripper Platinum - Real Fast Rip Copy Protected DVDs on Windows 10[^]
This program works really well, gives you a choice of output formats, can work in 'safe mode' for particularly tricky DVDs that employ anti copy tricks and is quite fast.
I rip all my DVDs and put them on an external HDD which is plugged into the TV. This is Soooooo much easier than sorting through a multitude of DVDs to find something to watch; and makes watching boxsets an absolute breeze.
modified 6-Sep-22 21:01pm.
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Use HandBrake, is almost dead easy to use, if your DVDs are encrypted, DVD Decrypter, MakeMKV or AnyDVD should help you with that.
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Try ConvertToVideo from ConvertXtoVideo - Convert videos to AVI, MKV, DVD, iPad, etc.[^]
They have a 7 day free trial and their price for a license is only $39.99USD. I bought their suite years ago and have been very happy with it and keep all their packages up to date. The trial version is fully functional so you can see if it does what you want. They have various other packages for different types of conversions. If this done doesn't do what you need perhaps another will.
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Take a look at DVDFab, it's pretty good at copying DVDs and I've used the converter option to go to MPEG-4. I don't have a BD player so I don't know how well it works with Blurays.
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These days, I'd rather have my gadgets than beer.
(XBox One X for Xmas)
"(I) am amazed to see myself here rather than there ... now rather than then".
― Blaise Pascal
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Second hand shop, DVD player $12. Hard-rubbish collection - $free.
No time or electricity wasted ripping.
Failing that, just use the *nix olden goldie, mplayer
Here's the result a a quick goggle (sp intentional!)
mplayer rip dvd subtitles - Google Search mplayer can do the sound, the video and the subs. All for the rip-off price of $free
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I have copied all my music CDs, as well as digitized vinyls and CCs, to a hard disk. It saves me half an hour a day (or at least close to that  ) searching back and forth through my CD shelves to find the music I want. (Even if I used to have my CD shelves sorted on artist, that was certainly not always my selection/searching criteria: Sometimes you search for a work of a given title, sometimes for an individual artist hidden by some band name, sometimes you don't remember who was the performer, ...)
So I am in the process of ripping all my movies anyway. But generally, I make a copy of the directory structure on the video disk, so that I can select the subtitles as I want, navigate through chapters, select sound track etc. Ripping is not a big issue - as long as region codes and encryption issues can be solved, and the cost of hard disks remain low. The list price of 4-8 TB disks is around 25-30 USD per TB, so the cost of storing a BD movie is typically around 50-70 US cents.
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Take a look a MakeMKV to rip (I use it for DVD, don't have BD, so not sure about BD). Then convert the *.mkv file to *.mp4 with VidCoder or just leave as *.mkv file.
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Astronomy Picture of the Day[^]
Complete with neutron star...
One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I don't know.
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Fun with acronyms. This is the Astronomy Picture of the Day Of The Day.
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Thanks for covering for me whilst I am away!
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Everyone, I LOVE my TiVo remote. Power/Volume works ONLY the TV... Etc.
Very simple replacement for a pair of remotes.
Now, in the Front Room, we have a big screen TV, and a sound bar. The sound bar does not pay attention to the TV Volume level.
We have a cable box. But the simple Cable TV remote does not let me program it to the soundbar. Honestly, if I could just do that, I would be happy. It is mostly for the wife/simplicity.
So, the wife is constantly ready to throw the remotes at me. I got a programmable one, but if she presses the wrong button (DVD) then the audio buttons are not longer speaking the Soundbars language.
Ughh...
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Does anyone know of a simple remote: CableBox for Channels, Power for TV, and Volume for Soundbar?
Without 1,001 buttons and modes, etc?
Thanks in advance!
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Well, ther's always this: Simple and obvious[^]
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OG... Those knobs don't work on my digital devices...
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