Greetings and salutations. I enjoy purchasing DVDs from official vendors and store them in neat cases on a shelf, embellishing it with chromatic variety of what Hollywood has to offer. It gives me a warm comfy feeling knowing these simple-looking disks are protected aggainst vandals and pirates and their ilk, thus ensuring our society will thive and prosper equally.
Anyway... this is what i want to do: - rip a DVD into a suitable format: divX, whatever. I'd like to make sure the ripped version is an exact bit-by-bit copy of the original - for backup purposes mom! - but that's not reeeaaaally necessary. As long as i have the video, audio and subtitle tracks well-defined and separated i'm happy. - then i want to create subtitles to said DVD, preferrably using Unicode since they'll be in esperanto, which has "special" characters, accented and such. Religious question: which subtitle format to use? - then, i want to add those subtitles to the ripped bulk and burn it back. So, get a DVD and add an extra set of subtitles. The golden question: what software to use for all this? Any other technical input and/or constructive criticism is welcome. Cheers, Nuno -- Fica bem, porta-te mal. Be well, misbehave. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

