Thursday, October 7, 2010

Nine Queens Frustration: Decimate + Subtitles = Bad

I have been trying to get a good backup of "Nine Queens" for the last 5 days with nothing but bad results. Something odd is going on when RipBot264 is actually Muxing the movie vs what you can see in its Preview when you configure it.

I have to use RipBot264 because this is a foreign film, so I need to the subtitles. And Win X DVD ripper will not place subtitles correctly for viewing on an HD TV. Even with their new cropping feature. (but that is a different frustration.. so I'll drop it for now)

The SRT that I burned of Nine Queens with SubRip matches in the preview, but not after the burn. I did a prior backup, that synced up correctly, but I forgot to deinterlace, so the movie looks.. combed. I suspect it may be related to the 'Decimate' option that turns on automatically when you turn on deinterlace.

And in fact, it was. Apparently, decimate does a great job handling the video and audio and keeping them in sync. And does a terrible job with the SRT files in the subtitles. They don't mix.

Fortunately, the M2TS file looks great, I don't see any problem with it now. Deinterlaced but not Decimated.