Best Way To Put Subs on The JP Dragon Boxes

[TheKingOfKamehamehas]

I was wondering what is the best way to put subs on the Dragon Boxes because for a lot of nubs with editing need help with this including me. I know for one thing you have to have another DVD release in order to put subs on the Dragon Box and that's it.

[sangofe]

Well, first you need to rip the subtitles from your dvds or find them online. Then you need to author your dvd:
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[JackyBoi99]

What are the best subtitle websites?

[Ajay]

You would have to acquire the original Dragon Box subtitles and then potentially retime each episode manually to the Japanese Dragon Boxes since their timings aren't the same. If you want them on a disc afterwards, you're gonna need a shit load of DVD9s. If not, that's at least 300GB of storage needed for the raws alone.

The easiest way would be to rip each episode using something like MakeMKV. However, from memory, the Dragon Boxes are one continuously long file relying on chapter marks rather than individual files for each episode. You'll have to find a way to separate them in the correct places following the rip.

One the files are ripped, you'll need to take the subtitle files - which you can easily acquire by extracting them from one of many horrendous quality Dragon Box rips out of there (using MKVCleaver) - and bring them in Aegisub.

Once the single subtitle file is in there, you'll have to work out the timings and hope that it's consistent. If it is, you can just batch change all the timings at once for each individual subtitle file. If it's not, well that's 291 episodes you need to manually retime.

Once that's done you'd throw the respective files into the batch processor for MKVMerge and let it run. Then you've got 300GB of raw files and 300GB of subbed files on your hard drive. You could run them through Handbrake to bring them down to a manageable size during the ripping process but that's even more time consuming.

Basically, this isn't an easy process at all and the easiest method would be ISO patches. Unfortunately, the only ones out there cover only Vol. 1 and most of them don't even work.

[sangofe]

I might be able to find you correctly timed subtitles if I look into it.

[Adamant]

If you have no problem with watching the episodes on your computer, the simplest way is to acquire the subtitles you want, shift them properly, then open your DVD in a video player that allows for external subtitles to be loaded onto the video.

That way, all you need to keep on your computer are the subtitle files themselves, with no need for reencoding or ripping your Dragonboxes.

[thomas1up]

If you have no problem with watching the episodes on your computer, the simplest way is to acquire the subtitles you want, shift them properly, then open your DVD in a video player that allows for external subtitles to be loaded onto the video.

That way, all you need to keep on your computer are the subtitle files themselves, with no need for reencoding or ripping your Dragonboxes.

This is the the easiest way but I'd rip them on an external hard-drive or something just because discs don't last forever.

[Corpsecreate]

I've already gone through and done this. It took forever and it was done manually.

You can't import the subs into Aegisub though (it won't accept idx files). Also theres so many more problems doing this than you think, you'll see what I mean when you get started (hint R1 video content doesnt match R2).

[dbboxkaifan]

You could backup your Dragon Box discs on your PC, load the subtitles on the media player and have the tower/laptop connected to the HDTV.

Then as for the subs, there's patches' done by Krycek7o2 so you already have the homework done for you.

[The Jackal]

Use Handbrake. It's a really good ripping/re-authoring program that allows you to rip the DVD, apply individual files via time indexes and also attach your own subtitles, or even extract subtitles if you have the original source.

[Ajay]

Then as for the subs, there's patches' done by Krycek7o2 so you already have the homework done for you.

Those were the ones I was talking about. Unless he's since updated them, they didn't work properly for many of the discs. The thing-that-may-not-be-discussed-here was nuked for that reason.

[dbboxkaifan]

He did do revisions for the subs of DB, GT and The Movies (Z was ditched because of FUNimation's release although he subbed the TV Specials' disc and such) but I can't post it here due to the rules, so the OP's best chance is to send him a PM.

There's a patch specifically for Dragon Ball Dragon Box which is 1.37 GB large so one of the three's done.

[Ajay]

Oh yeah, I was talking about the Z ones rather than the others. They totally work perfectly. I assumed he was talking about Z for some reason! My mistake.

[sangofe]

Send me a pm and I'll send you subs that should work with the japanese Dragonboxes. Just found them on my hard drives.