Step 1
Purchase a DVD or Bluray and then Rip it. For this step we are using MakeMKV (www.makemkv.com). After installing and running it, put the disc in and have it start scanning the disc. Once it loads you will see multiple lines that look the same. You want to select all lines that have a lot of chapters. That is one way of knowing it's the feature film. We just don't know which is the language we want.
Step 2
Select the Subtitles of your language and the forced subtitles below the line you already selected. For example, sometimes you might find more than 1 english, so select them all. If you are unsure if the movie has subtitles, here is a google doc that people are updating. Click Here. You can also set this language in the menus so it only checks the language you set when you open it.
Step 3
Go ahead and start the ripping process. Once it's done, you'll either have 1 file or multiple ones. If you have multiple ones you need to figure out which one is the one you want. Download VLC Player and open it there. Once you hit the title of the movie you'll know if it's the right language.
Step 4
Extracting subtitles would be the next thing to do. This where things start to get tricky. You'll need at least a Windows machine (maybe a Mac).
You need to download:
- https://mkvtoolnix.download/
- https://www.videohelp.com/software/Subtitle-Edit
Next thing is to open back up VLC and turn the subtitles on and off one at a time. Based off the google doc, some lines tell you which track # was the forced subtitles. This just takes a little trial and error. Once you figure it out, open mkvtools and open the mkv.
Select the track subtitle and click extract. Once it's done, you're going to open it in Subtitle-Edit. It will allow you to review your subtitles and then it exports it as a srt. Copy it to the folder where your movie will be. We will rename it to The_Exact_Name_of_the_Movie.language.forced.srt. Plex will know its forced and auto select it.
Step 5
We need to convert the mkv to something that will direct play. I've fought with this a lot always trying to rip it as high of quality as I can so it looks good on any screen. The only problem is by doing that it buffers a ton or it has to transcode. My new goal is to get everything where they play without transcoding and still look good.
[MP4] ffmpeg = C:\Users\Username\Desktop\sickbeard_mp4_automator-master\ffmpeg.exe ffprobe = C:\Users\Username\Desktop\sickbeard_mp4_automator-master\ffprobe.exe threads = auto output_directory = copy_to = move_to = output_extension = mp4 output_format = mp4 delete_original = False relocate_moov = True video-codec = h264,x264 video-bitrate = 8000 video-crf = video-max-width = h264-max-level = use-qsv-decoder-with-encoder = True ios-audio = True ios-first-track-only = True ios-audio-filter = ios-move-last = False max-audio-channels = audio-codec = ac3,mp3,dts,dca,aac audio-language = eng audio-default-language = eng audio-channel-bitrate = 256 audio-filter = audio-copy-original = False subtitle-codec = srt subtitle-language = eng subtitle-default-language = eng subtitle-encoding = fullpathguess = True convert-mp4 = False tagfile = True tag-language = en download-artwork = Poster download-subs = False embed-subs = False embed-only-internal-subs = False sub-providers = addic7ed,podnapisi,thesubdb,opensubtitles permissions = 0777 post-process = False pix-fmt = aac_adtstoasc = False preopts = postopts =
I scrapped all of the sickbeard stuff for right now. It's quality was ok but file sizes were still huge. I have switched over to handbrake. I'm doing super high quality for Blurays and High Quality for DVDs. I've been super happy with quality.
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