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Originally Posted by Brandenborg 
This is going to be a purely academic answer as I am definitely not the expert on DVD VOBs: I've never archived my DVD's -- or even played one in 2-3 years, let alone on this player EVER
That said, the VOBs in your VIDEO_TS folders are basically just MPEG2s (simlar to my TS recordings). I would think you can use ccextractor to extract SRT subtitle files from those VOBs. Then throw the VOBs and SRT into mkvmerge and remux them into an MKV file.
Maybe mkvmerge will even see the subtitles inside the VOBs directly and save you the ccextractor step: If so, they automatically show up under tracks. Worth a try. Either way, "General track options" in mkvmerge control whether the subtitles should be displayed by Default or even Forced.
Since VOBs are linked (as I recall) you may have to test whether to process each VOB and append them in mkvmerge, or whether it automatically picks up the entire chain of the movie based on the first VOB. Same goes for ccextractor.
Oh, and I assume the VOBs have already been decrypted (DeCSS'ed) when you copied them from the DVD.
Instead of changing the audio track compression setting in mkvmerge (as I described previously) you can set "File -> Options -> Disable header removal compression for audio and video tracks by default" and restart mkvmerge (credit to smckean).
Please post your results here if you try this. And sorry I cannot give you a tried and proven answer. Maybe others will fill in with other/better answers.
This is going to be a purely academic answer as I am definitely not the expert on DVD VOBs: I've never archived my DVD's -- or even played one in 2-3 years, let alone on this player EVER
That said, the VOBs in your VIDEO_TS folders are basically just MPEG2s (simlar to my TS recordings). I would think you can use ccextractor to extract SRT subtitle files from those VOBs. Then throw the VOBs and SRT into mkvmerge and remux them into an MKV file.
Maybe mkvmerge will even see the subtitles inside the VOBs directly and save you the ccextractor step: If so, they automatically show up under tracks. Worth a try. Either way, "General track options" in mkvmerge control whether the subtitles should be displayed by Default or even Forced.
Since VOBs are linked (as I recall) you may have to test whether to process each VOB and append them in mkvmerge, or whether it automatically picks up the entire chain of the movie based on the first VOB. Same goes for ccextractor.
Oh, and I assume the VOBs have already been decrypted (DeCSS'ed) when you copied them from the DVD.
Instead of changing the audio track compression setting in mkvmerge (as I described previously) you can set "File -> Options -> Disable header removal compression for audio and video tracks by default" and restart mkvmerge (credit to smckean).
Please post your results here if you try this. And sorry I cannot give you a tried and proven answer. Maybe others will fill in with other/better answers.
Hi Brandenborg,
Thank you very much for your info. I've tried to play video files on my external hard drive via my BDT110's USB port but I get the "This USB device is incompatible" message. Reading the BDT110 manual, I discovered that its USB port only supports FAT formatting. Since my HDD was already formated as NTFS, I assumed that's why it didn't work.
But the mind boggling thing is when I plug my USB flash memory stick which is formatted as FAT into the BDT110's USB port, the same "This USB device is incompatible" message pops up.
The same USB external HDD and flash memory stick work fine when plugged into the USB port on my Samsung HDTV set so I know they are working. Either the BDT110 that I have is defective or the 110's USB port is not very compatible.
I've decided to return my BDT110. I've read that the LG DVD player is very compatible with all kinds of formats. I need to verify whether it accepts NTFS formatted external HDDs on its USB port.
But I very much appreciate the time you took to respond to my questions,
Sky
. The best $18 I've spent in awhile. No issue with my connection or flashing.
. Also did you compare with a paused picture of with a running movie? I've found that this player produces a picture with less resolution on SD material when paused like if it's only displaying one field and not a full progressive frame.
