Hello all. My friend does not like watching movies with foul language. He has a dvd player with the TV Guardian program built in. It looks at the closed captioning and mutes the movie when it sees a curse word. I cant stand watching a movie like this seeing as how it mutes the whole sentence. I was wondering what kind of software I would need to take the contents of a dvd, put it on my computer, edit just the words out, and finally burn it onto a blank dvd-r. I appreciate any help.
You are aware that if you rip a commercial release, it either has to be 'shrinked' to fit a regular DVD (else it has to be burned to a DL disk). That understood, the DVD files are demuxed into separate elements, video, audio and subtitles. The audio is converted to a WAV format and loaded into an audio editor, where you either beep out the naughty part, silence it or just lower the volume. The edited audio file is saved as a new wav file. This file is converted back to .AC3 format, then the DVD is reassembled (muxed) and burned to disk. A by-product of demuxing the DVD is that the original menu is lost. It all sounds horribly complicated, but if the steps are carried out in sequence, it's very fast. The longest process is probably ripping and shrinking the original files.
