• At its heart VobSub is a tool for ripping subtitles from DVDs and playing them back using just about any software you might use. Unlike many other programs VobSub leaves the subtitles in their default format as images rather than text. This makes it fast and easy to use.
• 3 - Use DVDDecrypter to extract the DVD data into your hard disk. 4 - Use CCExtractor to extract the closed caption track from the DVD data. As an example, I will be using the movie Merlin. Remember that DVD subtitles and closed captions are two different things.
• VOB can contain digital video, digital audio, subtitles, DVD menus and navigation contents multiplexed together into a stream form. Files in VOB format may be encrypted. Files in VOB format have a.vob filename extension and are typically stored in the VIDEOTS directory at the root of a DVD.

Being a multifunctional Home DVD subtitle extractor to effectively extract subtitles from DVDs, Xilisoft DVD to Subtitle Converter can convert all Home DVD subtitles and create subtitle files in IDX+SUB, PDF, JPG and other image formats. Besides extracting subtitles from DVD-Video, this Home DVD subtitle extractor/maker tool can also extract subtitles from VOB and SUB+IDX files.

Developed to bring you an easy and high-efficient way to convert Home DVD subtitle, this Home DVD subtitle extractor allows you to output multilingual subtitles file to facilitate your language learning greatly, retrieve Home DVD information from the Internet, separate Home DVD subtitles into several parts, and so on. For movie fans like you, Xilisoft DVD subtitle converter provides a brand-new way to review your favorite movie stories.

• Convert subtitles from DVD-Video
• Convert subtitles from VOB/SUB files and save as PDF, JPG or other image format
• Extract subtitles from Home DVD and output multilingual comparison subtitle files
• Can't rip/convert DVD with copyright

I guess you'll agree with me that most DVD ripping tools out there handle video and audio pretty well but unfortunately just do not manage subtitles that good at all. They either 'burn' the subtitles on the video which means you cannot turn them off or create .sub files. In the other hand, .srt subtitles is much more handy than any of the choices above. It's plain text, so it is small sized and can be formated by the player to the liking of the user. Also it is very easy to merge in containers like mkv so that you can have video, audio and subtitles in one file.

Also it is very easy to merge in containers like mkv so that you can have video, audio and subtitles in one file. So the best solution is to create the video file using the DVD rip program of your choice and then rip the subtitles using something else. In this guide we will use one of the most popular programs that can do this task, SubRip.

So the best solution is to create the video file using the DVD rip program of your choice and then rip the subtitles using something else. In this guide we will use one of the most popular programs that can do this task, SubRip.

Load SubRip and in the main window click the 'VOB' button in the toolbar (it is the very first one). The window above will open. First, you will have to click Open IFO and load the first .IFO file of the DVD. That will probably be VTS_01_0.IFO. After you load it, check the filenames to make sure everything is OK, there should be 4 or more VOB files of a big size (size appears in the right). Make sure you select all of them but the first, and right at the top select the Language stream you want to rip. In the right part of the window, leave Characters matrix file to New File (we will explain what that means at the end) and make sure 'SubPictures to Text via OCR' is selected in the Actions option. Finally, click Start to begin the ripping process.

Get Subtitles From Dvd

SubRip is using OCR (optical character recognition) to convert the subtitles, which in the DVD are stored as images, to text. Because of that you'll need to manually input each character the first time SubRip finds it. It may sound like a big job, but usually in 5-10 minutes you will enter everything SubRip needs to continue the ripping automatically. You can see an example dialog above. All you have to do is check the blue character in the image, enter it below and click OK. Just make sure you enter the correct one (they are case-sensitive) or the subtitle created will have dozens of errors.

Extract Subtitles With Handbrake

Above you can see SubRib working. Usually ripping a 2 hour movie's subtitles after you're done with the manual character input takes a little less than an hour. Just make sure you are around, since SubRip might find an unrecognizable character anytime, and of course halt the ripping process waiting for your input.

Extract Vob Subtitles From Dvd Player

When it is finished you have to save to .srt file. Click the save button as shown in the image above and your subtitles file is ready! Before you close SubRip it would be a good idea to save the Characters Matrix, so check the next step as well.

The Characters Matrix file holds all OCR information that we inputted manually before, so it's a very good idea to save it by selecting Characters Matrix -> Save Characters Matrix File As. Then you can load it in Step 1 in the next DVD you will rip in order to save yourself time by not starting the recognition process all over again, but instead just enter any extra characters SubRip can't understand. This pretty much concludes this simple guide for ripping the subtitles from a DVD. Of course SubRip is a much more advanced utility with many more options that we may explain in future guide. Until then feel free to use our forum for any question.