When I have encoded my ripped dvds in the past (primarily for iTunes) I haves used the designated preset in Handbrake. Works well, but you can’t do subtitles (unless they are permanently burned in. You can’t turn them off and on). Now that I’m using Plex (yay!) which encode would you recommend which would allow for subtitles you can turn off/on? Thanks. C.
Use makemkv, so you get every audio track and every subtitle track that’s on the original disc. You can always remove some of them later, with Mkvtoolnix.
Perform OCR on the ripped subtitles and store them as SRT (UTF-8 encoded).
SRT is the most compatible “soft” (i.e. “switchable”) subtitle format for any Plex client.
You can either mux them in together with the video into a MKV container
or
simply put them beside the video file. https://support.plex.tv/articles/200471133-adding-local-subtitles-to-your-media/
You can also additionally keep the original subs in the video file, just in case the OCR process made some mistakes (it always does).
If you use Windows, I recommend Subtitle Edit
https://www.nikse.dk/subtitleedit
for the OCR and editing subs in general.
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