This is not a feature *request* since I’m not really an active StaxRip user. It’s rather an enhancement idea that might be worth thinking about.
For the Matroska and MP4 containers StaxRip currently allows loading only one IDX/SUB Vobsub subtitle fileset, possibly with multiple streams inside. Setting of a track name is not possible.
It would be nice to have:
a) Track name capability for Vobsub input.
b) Possibility to add multiple IDX/VOB filesets.
Advantage:
More flexibility. E.g. you could add one IDX/SUB containing the full subs stream and a second one containing only forced subs and give them each the resprective track name label. Currently this is only possible with text subs.
Multiple Vobsubs work fine with my personal setup. But if you’re interested I could do some tests with different splitter/decoder/player combinations.
IDX/SUB subtitles: More than one input fileset and track name field
Submitted by Brother John on Thu, 2008-06-05 16:55
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This and other things like reorder would take many days of work to research, code and debug, not much fun. With divx there are 3 different muxers and auto detection is much additional work too so it's very difficult.
I wonder how many DVD's use forced subtitles, if it's not many then it's not much of a limitation since a external muxing GUI could be used for such rare cases. I guess people also hardcode forced subtitles, I'll do that in the future. I usually don't use normal subtitles and until recently didn't even know the difference between forced and hardcoded subtitles so it's no surprise subtitles support lacks. I don't backup too many DVD movies and include the german audio track only in most cases. Recently I saw Lost which hardcodes forced english subtitles on a german DVD, luckily I understand english :-)
Again I was reading your site and learned things. You are explaining using dummy subtitles to deal with forced subtitles, that's interesting.
Oh, I didn't image so much
Oh, I didn't image so much effort would be required. It's definitely nothing deserving high priority because most people probably don't care. I'd say from the top of my head 1 in 3 or 4 DVDs has forced subs.
But how many people actually use dynamic forced subs tracks and additional complete tracks? Apart from myself? A very tiny minority I suppose. Hardcoding is crap qualitywise, but it's so damn easy to do, so that might be the usual way to handle forced subs.
Ah yes, those dummy subs. :) Great that you like the idea. Though I'm not the one who initially invented it. Picked it up on doom9.org somewhere.
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I was thinking how all this can be added and had good ideas :-)
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I've added everything now, wasn't as hard as I first thought it would be. New beta is online. I've also added mail notification to the forum, turned out Drupal 6 has a generic trigger action mechanism similar to StaxRip's Event Commands.