Closed Caption file for Viking series from Blu-Ray

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I’m looking for the correct English closed caption file (SRT) for the Viking series from the Blu-Ray purchased from Amazon distributed by eOne.

I ripped the DVD and the ripped file didn’t include the closed caption. I played the Blu-Ray on a Blu-Ray player and confirmed the DVD does not include closed caption.

I have the Viking seasons on my Plex server. From the Plex Web, I tried to download the SRT file by using the search feature and none of the SRT files synchronized with the audio. I tried all 10 version listed there and none of them synchronized.

I even tried the SRT files from TVsubtitles.net. They didn’t synchronized.

I started looking at these sites for the SRT files and thought I’d ask the question here to see if I can speed up my search for the correct SRT.

http://www.tvsubs.net/

If you know which site and file would be the correct one for the Blu-Ray version, that would be great and much appreciated.

In the meantime, I’ll keep downloading and trying all the SRT’s looking for the correct one.

Thanks,

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Is it a DVD or is it a Blu-ray?
They’re both discs, but still different.

Are you trying to combine subtitles from DVD with video from Blu-ray or vice versa? That may fail because of 2 possible reasons:

  1. the episodes have different intros at their start, thus shifting the actual content to later in time. This is rather easily fixed with e.g. Nikse.dk
  2. DVD doesn’t support the typical “cinema” frame rate of 24fps, which is usually used to produce both movie and series content nowadays. Instead, it uses the typical TV frame rates of either 29.97fps for NTSC, or 25fps for PAL. Both are different from 24 fps of the Bluray and thus, the subtitles frame rate needs to be adapted if you want to transfer them from one disc format to the other. This can also be done with the above linked software.

But generally it’s unusual that a commercially released disc wouldn’t have subtitles on it. Are you sure that your disc doesn’t have any?
Google “makemkv”.
Use it to rip a disc.
Make sure to rip all the language and subtitles tracks that are there. Don’t rely on them being labeled with the correct language, because that is wrong more often than you would imagine.
After ripping, pull the video files into the above linked software and take a look at all subtitle tracks that might be in there.

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My apologies. It is a Blu-ray disc.

I used makemkv to rip the disc the first time. I went back and based on your suggestion of ripping all the language and subtitle tracks, I clicked next to the track title and found the PGS French subtitle but no English subtitle.

Using the subtitle downloaded from TVSubtitles.net and the Subtitle Edit program, I was able to shift the subtitle to match the start of the video. But as the video played on, the subtitles get out of sync with the audio. Your second bullet point reminded me of the different frame rates.

Using the MediaInfo program, I see the FPS as 23.976 for the MKV file I ripped from the disc using makemkv. My best guess is that the subtitle downloaded from TVSubtitles.net is based on the 24 fps.

After seeing your reply, I’ll go back and use the Subtitle Edit program and adjust the frame rate for the subtitle.

Thanks, OttoKerner for your reply.

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That’s a good thing. Keep that for now.
You can use it to sync the English subtitles you may have obtained “elsewhere on the interwebs”.
See Subtitle Worflow: OCR or download & timeshift? - #5 by OttoKerner

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Thanks.

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