Select a DVD Source To extract subtitles from DVD, insert a DVD disc into the DVD ROM drive. Then launch this program and click on 'DVD Disc' to load the DVD source. It also supports ISO Image and DVD Folder input. Extract subs from (non-encrypted, on hard drive) DVDs and convert to Advanced Substation Alpha format. It can also convert sup (PGS) and sub/idx formats to same. 'I wrote this because I hate the blocky, too-high-on-the-screen look of regular DVD subtitles and wanted to re-encode my DVD collection in h264/aac/assa in an mkv container.'
Have you come across one of the following situations? Having taken too much time to rip a Blu-ray movie to common MP4/AVI video for your HD media player, but unfortunately found that you forgot to tick the subtitle to export at the same time. Having backed up Blu-ray disc to Blu-ray ISO file but your HD media player can’t read Blu-ray PGS subtitle. Or straightforward, your BDMV image have no subtitle. If you meet situations like these, what will you do? Spending another tremendous time re-ripping Blu-ray movie with subtitle export or just watch a non-subtitle film? You don’t have to choose any way that you dislike actually in a spirit of making no. You just need to extract SRT subtitles from Blu-ray disc, BDMV or ISO file.
Is it a tough job? With Pavtube Bytecopy <review>, it will be as easy as ABC. It enables you to extract SRT subtitles from Blu-ray disc, BDMV and ISO file with a few minutes. It lets users keep multiple audio tracks and subtitles when ripping Blu-ray to MKV container, these audio and subtitles can be a exactly copy of original streams, or transcoded ones (e.g. TrueHD/DTS-HD audio to Dolby Digital 5.1, PGS subtitles to VOBSUB). What’s more, with the best Blu-ray Ripper, you even can extract WAV tracks to FLAC from Blu-ray audio discs.
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How to extract SRT subtitles from Blu-ray disc, BDMV and ISO file?
Step 1: Load source movie
Click “Load files” icon to load Blu-ray Disc from BD-ROM, or BD ISO, BDMV from hard drive. Make sure your Internet connection is OK during this progress.
Step 2: Set SRT subtitle format
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.
Step 3: Start to extract SRT subtitle
Click “Convert” and ByteCopy will extract SRT subtitles from Blu-ray disc, BDMV and ISO file. 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.
Thumbnails (here I rip .srt subtitles from The Alice In Wonderland Blu-ray, 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 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. But there could be a few spelling mistakes existing in .srt subtitles, though ByteCopy does better than many other subtitles converter apps per we tested.
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |