If you end up with multiple forced subtitles, you can extract them with something like MKVTools then load them into BDSup2sub to find out what's in them and directly include the right one. Then you can just include that directly in your Handbrake conversion. If you're lucky, your rip will consist of exactly one subtitle. My current process is to select _just_ the 'forced only' track and not the parent of the language you speak. I've also found that MakeMKV is good at picking out the needed subtitles when people speak a different language.

I don't actually use Handbrake anymore since I'm anti-compression now. You'll want to start by including all subtitle tracks in the language you speak, then in the GUI set the first/only track to Foreign Audio Search or whatever it is. Handbrake is an excellent tool that allows you to take a movie and convert/compress it into a Mac-and-iOS-playable movie file.I've also found that Handbrake's auto/scan feature is quite reliable. If you also have VLC installed Handbrake will read DVDs and convert them directly.īlu-ray, disks, however, are not supported directly by this Handbrake/VLC combo, and that makes things frustrating. Typically you need to first rip the Blu-ray into some format that Handbrake will understand and then you can convert/compress from there. MakeMKV is one such program that will do that Blu-ray conversion. What many users don't realize, though, is that MakeMKV can be invoked on-the-fly to allow Handbrake to rip and convert/compress Blu-ray disks directly. To do this, you first need to download and put Handbrake, VLC and MakeMKV into your Mac's Applications folder. The first two are completely free, the last is a paid app but Mike Chen, MakeMKV's author, has said that all of its features will remain free while in beta. You can get an updated key at any time during this extended beta directly from MakeMKV (or, you know, you can buy it and support its development ).

Handbrake and makemkv