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I was one of the people anxiously (but quietly) awaiting the arrival of PGS support in Handbrake, so I've been doing a LOT of BD re-ripping recently. I have MakeMKV rip "everything" (all audio tracks, all subtitle tracks). With VLC, I switch through the subtitle tracks to find the ones tha...

Rip it with all the subtitles, then use VLC to find out which subtitle track is "correct". You can then use Handbrake to ONLY include the "correct" track. If you're doing the BD version, you will need the latest nightly build of Handbrake to handle the PGS subtitle tracks, and yo...

No need to compile it yourself, the nightly builds have include PGS subtitle support for a week now.

Converting to MP4, you can only burn one subtitle track in, but, if your player supports PGS subtitles in MKV files, you can keep the subtitles in place as tracks by compressing back into an MKV.

The obvious answer is... Where did you tell MakeMKV to put it? If you are using the MakeMKV GUI, there is a box where you put the FILE PATH to save the ripped files to. You can change where it defaults to in the configuration menu, or you can put an arbitrary path in at the time you run it. The &quo...

I can only tell you what works in Windows... Click on the first entry you want to delete. Ctrl-Click on the next you want to delete, until you have selected all that you want to delete. Hit the Delete key. If you are doing a range, click on the first, then hold the Shift key down while clicking on t...

Oh, Handbrake.... ;) You can highlight all the entries on the Queue screen, and hit DELETE, and they go away. I've all but stopped using HB's queue, though... I use the GUI to create a minimal queue with the options I need, then have it generate a batch file, and delete everything. Since I'm general...

If you have administrator privileges on the machine, you can click on the start menu, and type "regedit" in the search bar. Hit enter, and the screen will change color as Windows asks if you REALLY want to do something dangerous, like run regedit. Regedit is a lot like explorer, you can na...

When you rip with MakeMKV, the result is one or more MKV files, corresponding to the tracks you ripped. You will probably want to name them appropriately, depending upon your settings during the rip. Putting them on a media server is generally just copying them to it. If your player isn't compatible...

What do you mean by "whole queue"? Stop a rip that is in process?

This really should be in the "MKV file processing and playback" section, but...

When I search for "playing MKV on PS3", I get a LOT of information on how to CONVERT MKV files to something the PS3 will recognize and play.

I'm also wondering why so many people keep using Handbrake with issues like this. I just tried MKVtoMP4 and it does not use a subtitle stream for chapters. From the man page for MKVtoMP4: mkvtomp4: Uses mpeg4ip or GPAC's MP4Box, mkvtoolnix and ffmpeg to convert troublesome mkv files to mp4. The con...

Which usually can be changed by turning off subtitles in the player's setup. I have yet to see one not providing this option. Then take a look at the Uebo M400 and the old Seagate FreeAgent Theater. I've checked every menu option on both, and neither will default to subtitles OFF. And the way Handb...

The default is to rip the file with ALL audio and subtitle languages into the MKV file. When I rip some disks, I have to manually disable as many as 6 languages I'm not interested in.

A lot depends upon your player. I have two players that, no matter what the settings are in the FILE for subtitles, they always display the first subtitle track, and play the first audio track. If the audio happens to be English and the first subtitle track the "forced" subtitles, life is ...

Well, a lot depends upon what you ASKED it to do....

When the BD is inserted, did you select "backup disk", or "open disk"?

To create the MKV files, you first Open the disk, which will give you the the list of tracks on the disk to chose from. Backup doesn't do that.