Software to read .sup subtitles in MKVs?

[k-car]

I'm in the process of ripping all of my BDs and HD-DVDs to a file server. Not doing any compression or conversion; I'm keeping the original audio and video streams and putting them in an MKV container.

I'm currently using the LAV spliiter and audio decoder to handle MKVs and bitstream TrueHD/DTS-MA to my receiver. But I can't for the life of me get LAV Splitter to display SUP (PGS) subtitles. I've tried MPC-HC, FFDShow, and even PowerDVD 10, but none of them will display subtitles. I found a program called SUPRead, which converts SUP files to SRT text files. SRT subtitles do work, but the character recognition seems to be 50% accurate at best. I really don't want to spend the time to correct all of the errors that the OCR makes.

Does anyone know of any SUP decoder or filter that will work with LAV and WMP12? Thanks.

 

[abaez]

I believe only VLC had very very beta SUP support. It was pretty crappy when I tried it (although this was like a year ago so it may have improved).

AFAIK no free program fully supports them out of the box. I'm surprised PowerDVD doesn't show them for you. Doesn't it have official BR support?

I personally use BDSUP2SUB to convert my sup files to regular DVD sub files and just mux them into the MKV: http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=145277

It's been 100% accurate for me, and if it isn't it allows you to go in and fix the errors.

 

[IGemini]

SUP OCR isn't smart no matter how you slice it. My approach has been using SupRip's OCR and correcting them before exporting to SRT.

 

[AnitaPeterson]

How do you rip your HD-DVDs? I have a few, and would like to back them up...

 

[IGemini]

^^AnyDVD HD and DVDFab tend to be the best for ripping HD media.

 

[abaez]

MakeMKV also works well if there are no subtitles.

 

[k-car]

Thanks guys

I believe only VLC had very very beta SUP support. It was pretty crappy when I tried it (although this was like a year ago so it may have improved).

AFAIK no free program fully supports them out of the box. I'm surprised PowerDVD doesn't show them for you. Doesn't it have official BR support?

I personally use BDSUP2SUB to convert my sup files to regular DVD sub files and just mux them into the MKV: http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=145277

It's been 100% accurate for me, and if it isn't it allows you to go in and fix the errors.

Woah--VLC actually displays the SUPs. Unfortunately, the very important TrueHD and DTS-MA indicators on my receiver don't light up when I use VLC. To me, that's unacceptable. ^_^

I'll give BDSUP2SUB a shot. Looks like it doesn't use OCR in any way.