I am trying to rip my copy of Das Boot The Original Unedited Version. The problem I am having is that is when there is German being shown or talked, there are no subtitles. If I turn on english subtitles than it is on for even the english speaking parts. What can I do to rectify this? Any help would be greatly appreciated. I hope this is the right forum for this post. Hope to hear from someone.

Helo

As a medevac dispatcher, I’m probably the most qualified person on this forum to helo you. Send a down payment, or insurance pre-authorization, and I’ll start her up.

Sigh. Ignore them. They come from broken homes.

You're not saying that the rip's subtitles differ from the original, correct? Are you trying to make a modified version that omits subtitles for the English dialogue? If that's right, do a web search for "edit dvd subtitles" and you'll get various hits like

https://forum.videohelp.com/threads/...-DVD-Subtitles

I've played with some of these tools but have yet to take it the whole way through. I don't think it's hard, just a bit time consuming.

Hope that helps.

I thought that advice on ripping DVDs was frowned upon here?

I am talking about the close caption. When the movie starts a screen appers talking about the German U-Boats. The thing is it is in German. When I play the movie in my Dvd player an English translation appears on the screen.

Halo

Would you like me to call in a helo evac?

It is possible "that's just the way it is". Closed captions are typically controlled by your TV, and I believe there are at best two options. If the DVD subtitles have just one choice for English, then you'll likely get a subtitle for everything on screen. Imagine a deaf person buying the disk. In this case, it wouldn't be the first time that a film with mixed languages got a less-than-satisfactory home video release. "Romancing the Stone" comes to mind. I haven't seen the film in years, but there are several Spanish-speaking characters and I recall complaints about no option to see subtitles for just the Spanish dialogue.

You still have the option of making your own custom DVD, but I won't tread that path any more.

Maybe somebody knows if the Blu-ray is any different?

You are going to get much better answers to your questions on Doom9, a forum completely made for DVD and video ripping.

http://forum.doom9.org/