Extract IDX+SUB Subtitles from DVD This guide shows how to easily extract subtitle streams from DVD in the native IDX+SUB subtitle format. This format, also known as VobSub, is very flexible and portable, and widely supported by devices and media players. May 23, 2019 Step by Step Guide on Extract SRT Subtitles from a DVD Step 1: Load DVD movie Connect your Blu-ray drive into your computer, then insert your DVD disc into your computer's drive or an optional DVD drive. Launch the program, click 'Load from disc' to add the DVD movie to the program. Step by Step Guide on Extract SRT Subtitles from a DVD Step 1: Load DVD movie Connect your Blu-ray drive into your computer, then insert your DVD disc into your computer's drive or an optional DVD drive. Launch the program, click 'Load from disc' to add the DVD movie to the program.

Extracting closed captions from a DVD step by step tutorial

Note: This procedure may or may not be legal in your country, depending on whether they consider it fair use. I own the DVD used in the tutorial and I am not going to distribute anything from it, plus I live in a country where this sounds reasonable, so I believe I am in the safe side. But your mileage may vary.

Rip Subtitles

This tutorial was written years ago. Probably better tools exist already to do the same thing.

This tutorial will teach you how to go from a DVD in your shelf to a transcript of its closed captions. Basically there are these steps:

Install DVDDecrypter (a program to extract the DVD data from the physical DVD). You only need to do this once.Install CCExtractor (our beloved program; it gets the data from the previous step and extracts the closed caption track). You only need to do this once.Use DVDDecrypter to extract the DVD data into your hard disk.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. Closed captions come from the NTSC (USA and Canada) TV world, and they are usually prevent in DVDs from TV shows, documentaries, old movies and so on. If you buy a brand new DVD with a film from last year it's unlikely to have closed captions - it will have DVD subtitles, which require different tools to extract. Many tutorials exist on DVD subtitle extraction.

1 - Install DVDDecrypter

As explained before, DVDDecrypter is the tool we will use to copy the DVD data from the physical DVD into the hard disk. DVDDecrypter reads the DVD, decrypts it (so other tools can actually use the data) and writes it to the hard disk. There are other tools that do the same thing, so you can use whichever you prefer. DVDDecrypter is free, use to use, and does a good job, so it's the one I use regularly.

First, download DVDDecrypter, which is available from this page. You can get the file directly here.Depending on your browser, it may ask you whether you want to run the program, or save it, etc.

Run it if possible directly, or save it somewhere and run it later if your browser insists.

If you are using Internet Explorer it might warn you about the file not being signed, and ask you again if you want to run it:

Say yes. If you are running Vista it will show you yet another window to reconfirm you haven't changed your mind. I couldn't get a snapshot but it you are a Vista user you have seen that windows a billion times anyway.The installation program starts. All defaults are correct, so the only thing you need to do is say Next at every chance. A screenshot of all screens follows:

When asked about whether you want DVDDecrypter to check for new versions say no. The program is no longer being maintained so it will never find a new version anyway.

The installation ends. In the last screen you have an option to start DVDDecrypter inmediately. Since we are going to install CCExtractor now, uncheck the box.

2 - Install CCExtractor

CCExtractor is the program that does the actual work of getting the closed caption text from the data. It supports DVDs as well as many other formats. This is its home page (you probably know that already). Follow the link “Download Windows installer” (I don't link to the installer directly because it's updated from time to time and the link would be out of date soon). As before, run the installer if possible or save and run later if needed.

3 - Extract the data from the DVD using DVDDecrypter

Insert the DVD in the DVD player if you haven't done it already. Most likely it will start making noise for a few seconds, until Windows is done analyzing it. Wait for the noise to stop (so it's ready) and then start DVDDecrypter, either by clicking on its icon (on your desktop) our by selecting it in the program menu (Start → Programs → DVD Decrypter → DVD Decrypter).Initially the screen looks like this (assuming DVDDecrypter detects the DVD correctly - if not you may have to select the correct drive from the combo box):

The first time, go to the settings area (Tools → Settings). There are a lot of things there but the default settings are fine, except for the file splitting. We don't want the output video to be split in several files (the only exception would be if your hard drive couldn't handle large files). Having all the output in one file makes things easier later.

So go to the settings area as explained, and the select the “IFO mode” tab. In file splitting choose “None” from the combox box and then press OK. Done with the settings.

Back to the main screen, you can see that there's a “Destination” that DVD Decrypter automatically sets. You may need to choose a different folder. For me that directory is OK (F:MERLINVIDEO_TS).Notice too that all the files in the DVD are selected. If were trying to get the data from say, one specific episode of a TV show (where usually there are 4 episodes or so in each DVD) we would have to guess which file is correct. Since this is a complete movie, we're going to get all the files, so we leave the selection as is.

OK, so we press the large 'Decrypt' button (see below) and DVD Decrypter does its magic.

File selection

Take a look at the destination directory:

The VOB files are the actual video data. In DVDs, they usually have more stuff that just the movie. For example, the chapter selection video is there. In order to get a clean transcript, you need to tell CCExtractor which files to use. Usually the right files are easy to spot. In this example, you can see that the file VTS_01_0.VOB is 330 Mb long, while VTS_01_1.VOB is 1 Gb, VTS_02_2.VOB is one Gb too, etc. This is a clear indicator that it is not part of the same video stream. In order to verify it, we just play the file with any DVD capable player:

This is indeed the chapter selection video, which we don't want. Just to make sure, we start playing VTS_01_1.VOB, which should be the actual start of the movie:

Indeed it is.

4 - Extract the transcript with CCExtractor

Open CCExtractor, by click on its desktop icon or by selecting it from the program menu (Start → Programs → CCExtractor → CCExtractorGUI).

Now, open Windows Explorer if you didn't have it already, and choose the files VTS_01_1.VOB up to VTS_01_01_8.VOB (so all of them except the one we already know not to be part of the movie):

Drag and drop the files from Windows Explorer to CCExtractor:

Now you can see that CCExtractor has queued the files:

You can notice that CCExtractor has a lot of tabs with lots of options. The good news is that the default settings are OK, so you don't need to worry about them. The one thing you may want to change is the output format in the Output tab. By default it exports to .srt, which is the standard format that most players support. Suppose you want a plain transcript with no timing information. Just check the .txt option (transcript):

Finally, go to the Execution tab and press Start: screen-shot You can see the progress:

Once CCExtractor finishes, a file with the same name as the first file in the input is created in the same directory (this can all be changed in the settings). In this case, the file is called VTS_01_1.txt (note that it ends with .txt instead of .VOB). Here's the contents (the first 10 lines):

We're done.

“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.

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:

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.

Conclusion

Extract Subtitles To Srt

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.