Select the ' Subviewer '-tab and click the ' Convert to this format ' so we can quickly convert the subtitles to SubViewer format. Save the result using the menu options ' File ' - ' Save as '. This conversion to SubViewer is needed for use with the MicroDVD format. Click 'Start' button to begin free extracting subtitles from DVD as SRT text subtitle format, bitmap subtitle, or SUP file. If you wanna know more about the difference between image based subtitles and text based subtitles, bitmap subtitles and text subtitles, etc, please read the below Q&A. Tutorial How to extract subtitles Srt files from any VideoMKV merge: extratct: http://www.videohelp.com/t. While most of the subtitle files are in text format, these VOB subtitles in IDX format are not text, but images that are just a repacked file from the DVD and are given the extension of.SUB file.
On a DVD movie disc, all the video content is contained within a set of files in the VOB format. Most DVD ripping tools out there can extract the video from VOB to MP4, AVI, etc for desktop media player playback but few DVD ripping tools can extract SRT subtitles from VOB that good at all for using and playing.
Fortunately, Pavtube ByteCopy, regarded as the best 4K Blu-ray Ripper, Blu-ray Ripper and DVD Ripper normally, lets you extract the subtitle information from a DVD VOB file and create an SRT file. This DVD software works with VOB files that are in your DVD discs and DVD Video-TS folder. Once you've selected a VOB file in the loaded DVD video, you can start the SRT subtitle extraction.
Apart from ripping DVD to SRT subtitle, Pavtube ByteCopy also can extract SRT subtitle from Blu-ray disc, Blu-ray ISO, Blu-ray Folder. This Blu-ray has internal DVD and Blu-ray decrypter that can circumvent Blu-ray and DVD copy protection. So even though your Blu-ray and DVD are commercial ones with encryption, you still can smoothly extract SRT subtitle from DVD VOB and Blu-ray.
Step-by-Step to Extract SRT Subtitles from DVD VOB
Step 1: Load DVD disc to the program.
Click 'File' menu, from its drop-down list, select 'Load from disc' to load your DVD disc or load DVD Video-TS folder from 'Load from Folder'. All the DVD VOB video chapters will be listed as below.
Step 2: Select SRT subtitle output
From the 'Format' drop-down list, select 'Subtitle File' > 'SRT Subtitle(*.srt)' as the desired output file format.
Tip: You can click the “Settings” to select subtitles by language. Check any language you’d like to keep. You can either keep your native-language subtitles only or multiple subtitles in different languages.
Step 3: Start to rip DVD VOB to srt subtitle
Now hit the big red “Convert” and let it start extracting *.srt subtitles. Wait for a moment, open your file destination (or click “Open output folder” to locate generated files), you will all the subtitles in English, Italian, Spanish… Which is exactly the same as in your original disc.
Here I rip .srt subtitles from The Alice In Wonderland movie, which contains forced subtitles:
And you see, I get 2 English subtitles for the Blu-ray movie.
The Alice In Wonderland_001_1_English.srt – movie dialogue
The Alice In Wonderland_001_2_English.srt – forced subtitles (which displays only when a foreign language is spoken)
ByteCopy uses OCR (Optical character recognition) to read the Blu-ray and DVD image subtitles. Additional font object libraries for Latin-based languages (English, French, Spanish, etc) and Asia languages (Chinese, Japanese, Korea) are included to ensure subtitles be recognized and converted correctly. ByteCopy does better than many other subtitles converter apps per we tested.
Related Software: SRT/ASS/SSA Subtitle Adding Tool
If you have the need of adding external ASS/SSA/SRT subtitle to MP4, MKV, AVI, VOB, DVD, Blu-ray, etc, Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate for Windows/Mac is just the perfect one for you to not only add SRT/ASS/SSA subtitles to your various videos but also convert various video sources. Mac text to speech voices alex for windows.
Useful Tips
Sometimes, people will come the needs the extract SRT subtitles from DVD just the the following condition:
' I've used HandBrake, Subler, VideoMonkey, and RipIt. I'm familiar with mencoder. None of them seem to be able to rip the subtitles from a DVD and then get the soft subtitles to the iPad.'
'I'm using Handbrake to encode my DVDs but there is no feature to convert subtitles to .srt format. What's the best software I can use? I've already tried Subrip and it's not doing such a great job.. spacing is all messed up for ex. 'This isthe subtitle and Ihate it'. That happens a lot.'
Best tool to Rip DVD Subtitles to SRT
Although Handbrake features rich subtitle functions such as adding soft or hard subtitles, however, you may be disappointed to find that it won't allow you to extract srt subtitle from your DVD movies for adding to your favorite movies or using with media players with subtitle displaying function. Fortunately, here comes Pavtube ByteCopy, the exclusive subtitle extractor software which enables to your easily extract SRT subtitle from DVD disc, Video_TS folder and IFO/ISO image file. It also functions as a Blu-ray Subtitle Extractor to save SRT from Blu-ray disc, BDMV folder and ISO image file.
Besides extracting subtitles from DVD, you can also use the program to extract desired subtitles form DVD movies, enable forced subtitles to DVD movies to disable the traditional subtitles while still preserving the subtitles that translate foreign language speaking parts periodically throughout the film, add external srt/ssa/ass subtitles to DVD movies if the original DVD movies don't contain your desired subtitles.
How to Extract SRT Subtitles from DVD Movies?
Step 1: Import DVD movies
Run this DVD Subtitle Extractor on your computer, and import DVD disc by clicking 'File' ＞ 'Load from disc.' The small window on right side allows you to preview DVD movie before conversion.
Tips: The program can automatically detect the main DVD title (the one with largest file size and longest length) for you.
Step 2: Choose SRT subtitle format
Rip Subtitles From Dvd
Find the 'Format' menu, and select 'Subtitle File' from its drop-down list. There is an options of the box-'SRT Subtitle(*.srt)'
Tip: if you need to set the subtitle language, click the 'Settings' to select subtitles by language. Check any language you'd like to keep. You can either keep native-language subtitles only or multiple subtitles in different languages.
Extract Subtitles From Iso
Step 3. Extract SRT subtitles from DVD
Click 'Convert' and ByteCopy will extract SRT subtitles from DVD. Wait for a moment, open your file destination (or click 'Open output folder' to locate generated files), you will have the srt subtitles Which is exactly the same as in your original disc.