Subtitles on DVD

Pazuzu

I am wanting to buy a DVD player with record capability & I wonder if there is any way of recording subtitles? For that matter , is it possible to buy pre-recorded DVDs with subtitles?

amosworks

Most commercial DVD's you purchase have multiple subtitles available in various languages etc. To record subtitles on to your own discs, I believe this would actually work anyway because the subtitle information from TV (or so I believe) is encoded on the last few horizontal lines of the picture transmitted (along with loads of other stuff like teletext, videoplus codes and stuff), so they should be captured and recorded along with your video.

The only thing is, when playing back your DVD, you'd need to get your TV to decode the subtitles I would think (page 888 I believe) and hope it can pick the information out of the encoded video stream. If your DVD player is uber-spanky, it might actually be able to do this internally and overlay the subtitles with control from the DVD remote as with subtitles in commercial DVD's.

Good luck!

amosworks

Thanks for the info on how Freeview does it. I know that it doesn't support regular teletext any more, also I don't know if you've noticed some programs seem to use voice-to-text translation to give subtitles in real-time automatically. Quite clever

jpe20

Being an hearing aid user myself I tend to require subtitles from time to time

Virtually all DVD titles (around 97% I'd say) have english subtitles with ALL dvd players I know of being able to display them.

In addition if you are really hard of hearing or completely deaf there are extra subtitles for the hard of hearing. IE they indicate music tracks and songs or crucial sounds in a film soundtrack.

Hope this helps
Jules

jpe20

I missed the "record" element when u mentioned dvds. I am unsure about FREEVIEW recordings but sky+ does enable the recording of programs whilst retaining the subtitles option. NB also there is an option for the visually impaired offering Narration facilities which I assume sky+ recorded programs also offer.

JUles

amosworks

gizmoleeds wrote:

I don't really use them - only when people are talking loudly over the TV :rolleyes: (I live with a lot of noisy people ) - but I know what you mean. The problem with those is that there is a delay, although when something is live there is nothing that could be done about that.

Heh of course there is, you buffer the output of the video stream by a few seconds then overlay the subtitles at the right time sequence when they've been transcribed