Extract Subtitles From A Dvd

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Question: “Simple way to extract subtitles from VOB to SRT file? - Hi! Is there a simple and easy way to extract only the subs from a DVD? Not the whole movie! I need to generate regular soft coded subtitles. I feel it should be easy, but I've been searching everywhere and can't find a good solution! Doesn't have to be free. Looks like D-Subtitler could do it, but it doesn't work on High Sierra. Any ideas will be welcome.”

An SRT file is a standalone file containing subtitles for a movie; many media player applications can use the file to show subtitles while playing back the movie. On a DVD movie disc, all the video. But there are still times you may need to get the subtitles from a DVD manually to add it to an existing video file. VobSub At its heart VobSub is a tool for ripping subtitles from DVDs and playing them back using just about any software you might use.

Such questions are not rare among movie fans. .srt subtitles are much handier. It's plain text, so it is small sized and can be formatted by the player. Also it is very easy to merge in containers like mkv so that you can have video, audio and subtitles in one file. However, to extract subtitles from DVD to SRT file, you might find that most DVD ripping tools out there handle video and audio pretty well but unfortunately they 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.

Well, in this guide, we would like to show you how to extract subtitles from DVD to SRT in different ways. Check the content below.

Part 1: How to extract subtitles from DVD with HandBrake

Handbrake is the very first tool we would like to recommend to you for extracting subtitles from DVD to SRT file. As a free and open-source transcoder for digital video files, Handbrake could help you easily convert video, audio, DVD, Blu-ray files for multiple media players and devices as you need.

By default, Handbrake doesn't include the subtitles when you rip DVDs so it can keep the ripped movie's file size small. Thankfully, it's really easy to keep the subtitles on when you rip the DVD. The below steps would show you how to extract subtitles from DVD with Handbrake in detail:
1. Launch Handbrake.
2. Put your movie in your disc drive and wait for Handbrake to scan it.
3. Click the “Source” button to add your DVD movies from disc drive.
4. After adding source DVD movies, click over to the 'Subtitles' tab.
5. You have two different options here. Select the language you want, and then the 'Burned In' checkbox to lock the subtitles to the movie, or select Closed Captions from the drop-down list to get the subtitles in the original language of the film.
6. Under Destination, click Browse to set output directory for saving output files.
7. Click 'Start Encode' button and you'll rip the subtitles from DVD with Handbrake.
Obviously, with Handbrake, you could easily extract subtitles from DVD in several simple clicks. The whole conversion will be finished quite soon.

Part 2: How to extract subtitles from DVD to srt via Subrip

The second tool to extract subtitles from DVD to SRT file we would like to recommend to you is Subrip, a professional subtitle extracting tool that could help you easily extract subtitles from DVD to SRT file in clicks.

The below steps would show you how to extract subtitles from DVD by using Subrip in detail. Check the guide below:
1. Download and install SubRip on your computer. Currently the latest version of SubRip is V1.57.1 released in November 2018. Download is available on SourceForge.
2. Launch SubRip tool on your computer.
3. On the main window, click the 'VOB' button in the toolbar to click Open IFO and load the first .IFO file of the DVD. That will probably be VTS_01_0.IFO.
4. 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).
5. Select all of them, and right at the top select the Language stream you want to rip.
6. In the right part of the window, leave Characters matrix file to New File and make sure 'SubPictures to Text via OCR' is selected in the Actions option.
7. Finally, click Start to begin the ripping process.
The operation to extract subtitles from DVD to SRT file with SubRip seems to be a little bit more complicated than that of Handbrake, but finally it could do the job well.

Part 3: How to extract subtitles from DVD using Subtitle Edit

As a professional subtitle extractor tool, Subtitle Edit is our third pick for you to extract subtitles from DVD to SRT file. Subtitle Edit is a free editor for video subtitles - a subtitle editor. With Subtitle Edit, you can easily adjust a subtitle if it is out of sync with the video and much more, visually sync/adjust a subtitle (start/end position and speed), import Blu-ray SUP titles or VobSub sub/idx binary subtitles and OCR to text srt subtitles, convert SUP to SRT, SUB to SRT., and DVD to SRT.

Check the below steps to learn how to extract subtitles from DVD with Subtitle Edit program. Please remember that Subtitle Edit requires Microsoft .NET Framework Version 4.0 or later installed on your computer.
1. Download and install Subtitle Edit on your computer.
2. Launch Subtitle Edit on your computer and then insert DVD disc into the disc drive.
3. On Subtitle Edit main interface, open the “File” menu and then click “Import/OCR subtitle from vob/ifo (dvd)” option.
4. Click the browse button with 2 dots in the “IFO file” section and then browse and add DVD IFO file to Subtitle Edit (you can directly add from your DVD disc, or use Leawo DVD Copy to remove the copy-protection upon your DVD disc for IFO file adding if necessary).
5. You could then see all VOB files automatically added to the “VOB Files” section.
6. Then, click the “Start ripping” button at the bottom left corner to start to extract subtitles from DVD into SRT file within Subtitle Edit.
7. After ripping, click the “Save” button on the sub-menu bar to save the SRT subtitle file into your local drive. Of course, you need to give the output SRT file a name.
8. Finally, click the “Save” button on the “Save subtitle as” window to save output SRT file.
Subtitle Edit could help you firstly convert DVD to video with subtitles and then extract subtitles from video converted from DVD files to SRT file. The operation seems to be more complicated than the above mentioned 2 methods, but it really works. You could freely choose the method you prefer from the above 3 ones.

Bonus: How to rip and convert DVD with subtitles with Leawo DVD Ripper

As a bonus, we would like to show you how to rip and convert DVD movies with subtitles since once you have ripped and converted DVD movies to video files with subtitles retained, it would be easier to get subtitles from video files.
Leawo DVD Ripper could help you easily rip and convert DVD files to videos in 180+ file formats for any use on any media player or device, no matter the DVD files are copy protected or not. It could help you rip and convert DVD to MKV, MP4, MPEG, AVI, FLV, MOV, etc. Moreover, to meet your needs more, with Leawo DVD Ripper, you can even adjust the parameters of the target file, including video codec, audio codec, video bit rate, aspect ratio, resolution, frame rate and etc. This makes output video files more suitable to your computer media players, iPhone, iPad, Android devices, Microsoft Phones, etc.

Download and install Leawo DVD Ripper on your computer (it’s a module of Leawo Prof. Media). Then, follow the below steps to learn how to rip and convert DVD movies to general videos with Leawo DVD Ripper in detail.

Step 1. Add source DVD files
After launching Leawo Prof. Media on your computer hit the “Convert” option on the top panel. After that click on the “Add Blu-ray/DVD” option to load the DVD file that you want to burn.

Note: Three content loading modes will be available on the main interface: Full Movie, Main Movie and Custom Mode. Full Movie means to load all contents of the source DVD including files like subtitle, audio track and many more. Main Movie only imports the longest chapter of DVD content, by default the main movie of source DVD file, and Custom Mode allows users to select chapters for loading upon personal needs.
Step 2. Set output format
Now, hit the drop-down box before the big green “Convert” button and choose the Change option to select the output format on the Profile panel. You could choose from either “Format” or “Device” group according to your own needs.

Step 3. Set output profile parameters
Then, to meet your needs more, edit the parameter information of the output file including video codec, channel, resolution and many more. To do this, click the “Edit” button on the drop-down panel right before the big green “Convert” button. Click “OK” button to save settings and exit.

Step 4. Set output directory
Click the big green icon of “Convert” option to continue. After that, on the popup sidebar, set output directory in the “Save to” box.

After that, click the bottom “Convert” button to start to convert DVD movies to video files with Leawo DVD Ripper. You then only need to wait for the conversion.
In fact, Leawo DVD Ripper could not only help you rip and convert DVD files to general video files, but also edit DVD movies, apply 3D movie effect, select subtitles and audio tracks, etc. It’s far more than a simple DVD to video converter.

“Can you keep forced subtitles from DVD movies? I have some DVD discs and there are some subtitles in alien languages. I have searched online and got to know they are officially called Forced Subtitles. What is Forced Subtitle? And how to keep Forced Subtitles with DVD ripping? I just want to rip some of my DVD discs and would like to keep the so-called Forced Subtitles. Is there any way to rip Forced Subtitles only from DVD? Please show me the solutions.”

When watching movies, especially those science fiction movies, we could usually see that there are some subtitles in an alien language. No matter you watch the movies on DVD players or on your computer, these subtitles never change, even you switch the movie subtitle and audio track to different ones. Some people have been wondering what this is. That is Forced Subtitle. Some people might have come across problems of Forced Subtitles missing. That is what we are going to talk about in this guide. We are going to talk about what Forced Subtitle is and how to rip DVD with Forced Subtitle.

Part 1: What is Forced Subtitle and Why Do We Need Forced Subtitles?

Generally speaking, subtitle is a textual version of a film or television program’s dialogue. The subtitles usually appears at bottom of screen, to not influence the normal display of movie pictures. Subtitles include narrative subtitle, in which spoken dialogue is displayed, and forced subtitle, which is not so common.

Forced subtitle is the subtitle appearing on screen when the characters speak a foreign or alien language, or there is a sign, location, or other text in a scene which needs to be explained but cannot be translated in the localization or dubbing. For example, in a DVD movie, main characters come to Italy and meet the local people who speak Italian, then the DVD will show the translation of the Italian speech in text to help audience who don’t know Italian to grasp the movie details.

There are various reasons for which we would like to keep Forced Subtitles from a movie. For example, in some movies, especially science fiction movies that relate to aliens, the alien language would be displayed in Forced Subtitles. You may want to reappear the primary audio and visual effect of movie origins, while the Forced Subtitles play an important role for this. Also, sometimes you may need the Forced Subtitles to deliver a special movie effect or for sharing online with your friends to achieve special goals. In such cases, you need to keep the Forced Subtitles.

Part 2: How to Rip DVD with Forced Subtitlev ia Leawo Blu-ray Ripper?

Then, let’s fix the question on how to rip DVD with Forced Subtitles. There are a lot of DVD rippers that could help you easily rip and convert DVD movies with Forced Subtitles. We would like to firstly recommend you Leawo DVD Ripper, a professional DVD ripping software tool that could decrypt, rip and convert DVD movies to videos in various formats. It could convert DVD movies to MP4, AVI, WMV, MKV, MOV, FLV, etc. for various devices like iOS devices, Android devices, Microsoft Windows devices, etc. Features superb DVD disc decrypting performance, Leawo DVD Ripper could help you rip and convert any DVD movies, no matter they are commercial DVD discs or region restricted. Leawo DVD Ripper doesn’t require you to install DVD disc decrypting tool to decrypt commercial DVD discs. What’s more, Leawo DVD Ripper could help you rip DVD with Forced Subtitles only. You could get desired subtitles with Forced Subtltes, or Forced Subtitles only. Besides converting DVD movies, it could even edit DVD movies, apply 3D movie effects, merge DVD files into one, play back DVD discs, etc.

The below steps would show you how to rip DVD with Forced Subtitle only by using Leawo DVD Ripper. Firstly, download and install it on your computer.

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Note: Leawo DVD Ripper is a built-in module of Leawo Prof. Media.

Step 1: Add source DVD movie
Launch Leawo Prof. Media and then open the “Convert” module to enter the “Convert” module. Then, click “Add Blu-ray/DVD” button to add either disc from disc drive or DVD movie from folder. You could also click the “Add iso file” to add DVD ISO image file.

Note:

1. 3 different DVD content loading modes are available. Full Movie mode enables you to load all content in source DVD for converting, while Main Movie mode enables you to select one title for loading and converting. In Custom Mode, you will be able to select multiple titles for loading and converting. Choose any one according to your needs.
2. Leawo DVD Ripper allows you to select subtitles and audio tracks after loading source DVD movies. Forced Subtitles would be automatically retained in output file. If you want to rip DVD with Forced Subtitles only, you could select none option in the “Subtitle” dot frame. Leawo DVD Ripper would then rip DVD with Forced Subtitles only.

Step 2: Choose output format
Click the drop-down box (named “MP4 Video” by default) right before the big green “Convert” button on the sub-menu bar, and choose “Change” to enter the Profile panel. Choose output format from the “Format > Common Video” group or “Format > Device” group according to your needs.

Step 3: Adjust detailed parameters
If you need, you could adjust output profile paramters. After setting output format, open the drop-down button right before the big green “Convert” again and then choose “Edit” option to enter the “Profile Settings” panel, where you could adjust video and audio parameters of output format, including: video codec, quality, bit rate, frame rate, aspect ratio, channel, audio codec, resolution, etc.

Step 4: Set output directory
After that, click the big green “Convert” button on the sub-menu bar and then set output directory in the “Save to” box. Please make sure you have selected a drive with enough space.

Step 5: Start to convert
After that, click the bottom “Convert” button on the pop-up sidebar to start ripping DVDs. You could then view the entire converting process.

You then only need to wait for the conversion to complete. After converting completes, you get DVD movies into video files with Forced Subtitles. Then, you could freely watch the movie on any device or player you like.

Part 3: How to Rip DVD with Forced Subtitle with Pavtube Blu-ray Ripper?

Pavtube Blu-ray Ripper is another wonderful Blu-ray/DVD ripping tool that could help you easily rip and convert Blu-ray/DVD movies to videos in various formats like MP4, AVI, MKV, WMV, FLV, MOV, etc. for various needs. It also enables you to rip and convert DVD with subtitles. What’s more, it includes a clear indication that enables you to select whether or not to keep Forced Subtitles for converting Blu-ray/DVD movies.

The below steps would show you how to rip DVD with Forced Subtitle with Pavtube Blu-ray Ripper in detail:

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1. Download and install Pavtube Blu-ray Ripper on your computer. Meanwhile, get your source DVD movie ready.
2. Launch Pavtube Blu-ray Ripper and then click the folder icon to browse and load source DVD movie into this program.
3. After loading source DVD movie, select main subtitle and audio track, and tick the “Forced subtitles” option to keep Forced subtitles in output file. If you want to rip DVD with forced subtitle only, just select None in “Subtitles” option and then tick “Forced subtitles” option.
4. In the “Format” box, choose an profile as output format. Then, you could click the “Settings” button to adjust the video and audio parameters of selected output profile, just like what you have done when using Leawo Blu-ray Ripper.
5. Set an output directory in the “Output” box.
6. Finally, click the bottom right “Convert” button to start converting DVD movies with forced subtitles.

It’s quite straightforward for you to use Pavtube Blu-ray Ripper to rip DVD with forced subtitles only. The entire operation is quite easy.

Part 4: Pavtube Blu-ray Ripper vs. Leawo Blu-ray Ripper

You have learned detailed steps on how to rip DVD with forced subtitles by using 2 different tools above. Which one is better? Just refer to the below comparison table.

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Conclusion

Both Leawo Blu-ray Ripper and Pavtube Blu-ray Ripper could help you convert Blu-ray/DVD movies to videos in various formats with subtitles (forced subtitles as well) and audio tracks preferred kept. However, you could see that Leawo Blu-ray Ripper supports disc decrypting, while Pavtube Blu-ray Ripper only converts regular Blu-ray/DVD movies. And you need to know that nowadays, most Blu-ray/DVD discs are copy protected.