Hi everyone
OK - wondered if anyone could help. Got an MKV (it's a French film - from a DVD rip) I used to have the DVD but now can't find it.
I want to make a DVD / burn a DVD from the MKV file for my sister: she's only got an iPad, and has no laptop. I want to give her a DVD copy of the film so she can watch it on her TV.
I've got Ripit, which only goes the other way (it makes a file from the DVD), and Handbrake.
I also got miDVD, which I noticed was recommended by somebody here.
It created a nice, sharp DVD from the MKV file easily, but the subtitles are nowhere to be found on the finished DVD!
I played the newly burned DVD through my TV - there's a "subtitles" button on the DVD remote, but it didn't work... And when I put the DVD into my external USB superdrive (I'm using a 15" Retina MacBook Pro) it played fine through the the laptop DVD player, except the subtitles were definitely nowhere to be found
I've got no separate srt file (when I play the MKV file on my Mac the subtitles are already there).
I figured I'd convert it to an MP4 using Handbrake, and all that happened then was that it reduced the file size (and added some director's commentary that I didn't even know was on the MKV ) Seems like "double handling" if I have to use Handbrake as well anyway... In the subtitles section in Handbrake you can only click "forced" or whatever if you have first chosen "track", which gives a baffling drop-down menu.
So is there a simple free DVD making programme out there that will include the subtitles? I know they're somewhere in the MKV file, because they always come up by default when I play the film in VLC (or mPlayer)
I simply (!) want a hard copy DVD of the file with the subtitles.
Thanks in advance!
And please excuse the long-winded post
OK - wondered if anyone could help. Got an MKV (it's a French film - from a DVD rip) I used to have the DVD but now can't find it.
I want to make a DVD / burn a DVD from the MKV file for my sister: she's only got an iPad, and has no laptop. I want to give her a DVD copy of the film so she can watch it on her TV.
I've got Ripit, which only goes the other way (it makes a file from the DVD), and Handbrake.
I also got miDVD, which I noticed was recommended by somebody here.
It created a nice, sharp DVD from the MKV file easily, but the subtitles are nowhere to be found on the finished DVD!
I played the newly burned DVD through my TV - there's a "subtitles" button on the DVD remote, but it didn't work... And when I put the DVD into my external USB superdrive (I'm using a 15" Retina MacBook Pro) it played fine through the the laptop DVD player, except the subtitles were definitely nowhere to be found
I've got no separate srt file (when I play the MKV file on my Mac the subtitles are already there).
I figured I'd convert it to an MP4 using Handbrake, and all that happened then was that it reduced the file size (and added some director's commentary that I didn't even know was on the MKV ) Seems like "double handling" if I have to use Handbrake as well anyway... In the subtitles section in Handbrake you can only click "forced" or whatever if you have first chosen "track", which gives a baffling drop-down menu.
So is there a simple free DVD making programme out there that will include the subtitles? I know they're somewhere in the MKV file, because they always come up by default when I play the film in VLC (or mPlayer)
I simply (!) want a hard copy DVD of the file with the subtitles.
Thanks in advance!
And please excuse the long-winded post
