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Ah, the cricket ground at the Padang (near by the old parliament).
In 18 years I seen it used for cricket once, although I believe on a few occasions teams passing through (i.e. Aus/NZ <-> UK) may have an open day (no full games - few of the names show up and sign bats for the kids and maybe a bit of bowling/batting in the nets).
The ground is occasionally used for a variety of non cricket (often non-sport) activities - far more then the seldom (hardly ever) use for cricket.
There is also an official Singapore Cricket Club, the activities they list as "sports" is mainly watching [sports on] TV.
There are a lot of Indian/Bangla manual workers here, weekends they will often be seen playing cricket - but not at that ground though, no, no, no - more often some disused [rough/barren] fields further away from the city centre - it really is like a religion for some of them.
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Super analogy!
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I often visit a friend to watch (mostly my own) DVD/BD movies - he has a huge TV set. He has no Bluray player, and his only DVD player is in his full-size tower PC, so I bring my settop player for plugging into his TV set. That is somewhat cumbersome; on my last visit I happened to leave the remote at home, and the player doesn't have the buttons (except On/off and Eject).
His TV set has a USB socket, and can play MPEG4 videos stored on a memory stick. If I could copy the DVD/BD to a file on the stick, I wouldn't have to carry the player back and forth every time. I've got the software for extracting the sound and video from both DVDs and BDs to an MPEG4 file. But NOT the subtitle tracks.
Now it happens that we frequently watch foreign movies - and, as we are not native English speakers, some English dialects fall into the same group as Finish or Italian  . So for a lot of the movies, we need the subtitles. Actually, for some disks with multiple soundtracks, my ripping software also picks the 'wrong' one, so even though the movie is English, the MPEG4 file has the French or Italian dubbed sound track.
Is there any software out there that allows me to rip the movie to MPEG4, with the subtitle track of my choice, and preferably the sound track of my choice? Ideally, it should also be capable of reading an .srt file (instead of the graphical subtitle images on the DVD/BD), with selectable text rendering.
It doesn't have to be freeeware, but I'm not going to pay thousands of dollars.
Before you give me that ugly look: In my country (Norway), the law explicitly states that you may produce copies for private, non-commercial purposes as long as it is limited to private, non-commercial purposes (the statue actually repeates this restriction!), so I am NOT breaking the law as long as I use it only for watching the movies on my friend's TV set.
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Why not just buy a DVD player? They're cheap enough anyway, and between the two of you even more so.
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I already got one , it would have to be my friend buying one, and it would have to be a BD player. But he is short on money, and will not be spending what he can spare on a BD player, no matter how cheap.
Especially not nowadays. Most of my friends/colleagues rejects discs of all kinds nowadays. If I reocmmend some movie or music that happens not to be available through the streaming services, and I say: "You can borrow my CD / DVD / BD", the common response is "Naaah, forget it! I don't use that stuff any more; I haven't got any player for it." It is like offering them music on a 78rpm record.
Even to my friends with enough money to buy a player, they would rather buy a case of beer for a movie streaming night than buying a player for 78rpm records. Or DVDs/BDs, which are in roughly the same class, in their eyes.
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OK - but you said you're willing to pay for ripping software, and I suspect you can get a DVD/Bluray player for less.
Having said that - have you tried Freemake[^]? (That or one of their other products). It can do a lot, but you will need to buy a premium licence to make it useable. They have a sale on right now....
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I was not aware of Freemake. It seems to be exactly what I need. Thanks for the suggestion.
Their website uses the "free" at least one hundred and fifty times; I haven't yet found the price of the premium lisence you mention. (I suppose it is like drug dealers - the first shot is free...) Maybe the free version will cover all my needs; I'll try that one first.
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Without the premium packs it can take bloody ages to do anything - they speed it up. It may also add a watermark to the videos. Be careful too when installing - use the "custom" option to avoid unwanted extra installs. BUt test it out first before buying to be sure it does all you want.
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There I found the sale price of the Premium pack.
I know that DVD/BD players are cheap nowadays, but can you really get one for $19 where you live?
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Member 7989122 wrote: I know that DVD/BD players are cheap nowadays, but can you really get one for $19 where you live?
$19, no, but $39 for refurbished on Amazon, yes . . . and for that small expenditure you eliminate having to spend your time ripping the discs.
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Freemake used to be damn good - but suddenly they got greedy, and want you to pay for the "speed up option" (which means it uses your GPU, like the previous version did for free), and then again for that option, the other option, ... total ripoff.
I'm using WinX HD and Avidemux instead these days.
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True - though in fairness their pricess are not outrageous, and they're still the best (I've found) for downloading videos off the Internet (YouTube et al)
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I think what really p*ss*d me off was forcing an update on me without telling me it would degrade the product (unless I started stumping up money - which I was about to pay until I found it doesn't give you everything I had before without another payment, and another...)
So I decided "sod you" and looked for something else.
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There are like half a dozen youtube download plugins for Firefox that work great.
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I already got one , it would have to be my friend buying one, and it would have to be a BD player
So...is the price of a Blu-ray player worth the hassle of taking yours with you every time you go visit your friend to watch something? If it was me, I'd just buy a cheap player and leave it at my friend's place. Electronics like these, especially those with moving parts, don't particularly like being moved around all the time and could die a premature death. Or a connector might break before that happens.
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Learning Finish? The last movie I watched with my friend was "Rare Exports Inc." - a Christmas horror movie. Or horror comedy, if you prefer. Absolutely worth watching!
If I count the number of spoken languages across my shelves of movies, there is at least 25-30 of them, maybe more. And then comes all the English... Some DVDs allow you to select subtitle language, but not turn it off; subtitling is mandatory. The first movie on the Norwegian market was "Oh brother, where art thou?", and it was commented by lots of people that for that movie, it really wasn't too annoying that the spoken "English" was subtitled
Extracting .srt files (or the text in any format) from DVD/BDs is based on OCR, character recognition, which usually has a very high error frequency; it is hardly worth it. It is usually faster typing the text manually from the screen image. (You use the converter to get the .srt time stamps, and then replace the garbled text contents with your own copy off the screen.)
I guess that this "Freemake", recommended by A_Griffin (I already sent away my USD 19 for the Premium Freemake, but won't have a chance to try it until I return home after work) treats the subtitle track "as is", as a graphical overlay, without attempting to recognize the text.
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I also used Handbrake when I still had disks. It's open source and allows you to select the audio track(s) and subtitle(s). You can also give it a shot.
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Member 7989122 wrote:
Is there any software out there that allows me to rip the movie to MPEG4, with the subtitle track of my choice, and preferably the sound track of my choice?
Yes. Check out Leawo.
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I can thoroughly recommend WinX DVD Ripper WinX DVD Ripper Platinum - Real Fast Rip Copy Protected DVDs on Windows 10[^]
This program works really well, gives you a choice of output formats, can work in 'safe mode' for particularly tricky DVDs that employ anti copy tricks and is quite fast.
I rip all my DVDs and put them on an external HDD which is plugged into the TV. This is Soooooo much easier than sorting through a multitude of DVDs to find something to watch; and makes watching boxsets an absolute breeze.
modified 6-Sep-22 21:01pm.
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Use HandBrake, is almost dead easy to use, if your DVDs are encrypted, DVD Decrypter, MakeMKV or AnyDVD should help you with that.
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Try ConvertToVideo from ConvertXtoVideo - Convert videos to AVI, MKV, DVD, iPad, etc.[^]
They have a 7 day free trial and their price for a license is only $39.99USD. I bought their suite years ago and have been very happy with it and keep all their packages up to date. The trial version is fully functional so you can see if it does what you want. They have various other packages for different types of conversions. If this done doesn't do what you need perhaps another will.
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Take a look at DVDFab, it's pretty good at copying DVDs and I've used the converter option to go to MPEG-4. I don't have a BD player so I don't know how well it works with Blurays.
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These days, I'd rather have my gadgets than beer.
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Second hand shop, DVD player $12. Hard-rubbish collection - $free.
No time or electricity wasted ripping.
Failing that, just use the *nix olden goldie, mplayer
Here's the result a a quick goggle (sp intentional!)
mplayer rip dvd subtitles - Google Search mplayer can do the sound, the video and the subs. All for the rip-off price of $free
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