To just extract the VobSubs from a DVD I use VobSub Configure. It's included in the VobSub package. If they need to be OCR'd to SRT or SSA or whatever, I can follow up with SubRip. There are other ways, of course, but this is what I've used for years and it works. Step 2: Free Extract DVD Subtitles on Windows by SubRip. To rip DVD subtitles on Windows PC, the DVD subtitle extractor highly recommened is the well-known SubRip. Certainly, there are also some other DVD subtitle extractors like SubtitleEdit, DVDSubEdit, etc.

“My goal: I want to extract subtitles from DVD 12 Years A Slave to srt.file. I plan to add extracted srt subtitles in English to my downloaded movie for private use such as learning English. I have evaluated several programs but sadly find that in the test version the subtitle extractor is not included. What a pity. Could you do me a favor and recommend something to me?”

In which circumstances will you have the need of SRT subtitles extraction?
1. Need add SRT subtitle to downloaded movie or video
2. Media players cannot subtitle Blu-ray PGS subtitles
3. Store SRT subtitles for later usage
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Pavtube ByteCopy( Top 5 Blu-ray Rippers) offers you a simple way to extract subtitles from Blu-ray and DVD movies in SRT file, and then you can store the subtitle file or add to movie copies for learning language, watching movie with subtitles on Media Player, etc.

Besides extracting subtitle from Blu-ray/DVD movies, ByteCopy also enables you to add forced subtitles to Blu-ray/DVD movies when there are alien languages which are different from your mother tongue or add additional SRT/ASS/SSA subtitle to converted videos.

How to Extract SRT Subtitles from Blu-ray DVD Movies?

Step 1: Load Blu-ray/DVD disc to the program.

Connect your Blu-ray drive with your computer and then insert your Blu-ray disc into the drive, then click 'File' menu, from its drop-down list, select 'Load from disc' to load Blu-ray files to the program.

Step 2: Select output file format.

From the 'Format' drop-down list, select 'Subtitle File' > 'SRT Subtitle(*.srt)' as the desired output file format.

Step 3: Select subtitles by languages.

Click “Settings” to open 'Multi-task Settings' window 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 4. Extract SRT subtitles from Blu-ray/DVD movies.

Press the right-bottom red “Convert” and start extracting *.srt subtitles from Blu-ray DVD process.

When the SRT extracting process is finished, click “Open output folder” to locate the generated files, you will get all the subtitles in English, Italian, Spanish… Which is exactly the same as in your original disc. For this situation, you need choose the English subtitle for study.

Sometimes, the extracted SRT subtitles may not what you desire to get, you can still use our program to add additional SRT/ASS/SSA subtitles to movie files. Just open the 'Edit' window, switch to 'Subtitles', check 'enable', you will be able to add your desired subtitles to your converted files.

Summary: follow this article to free rip and extract subtitles from DVD disc and save as .srt file.

You plan to play DVD movie with your player, which, however, needs the files to be separate to begin with. That means you need to extract subtitles from DVD as a separate .srt file. Another case, you wanna use the memorable quotes of some DVD movies into your DIY videos, but you don't find the subtitles online and fail to download subtitles from online site. In such case, ripping subtitles from DVD is your ultimate solution.

Prior to extracting subtitles from DVD movie on Windows/macOS, you'd better have some basic knowledge about what kind of subtitles can be extracted and what can't. Here we mainly talk about the most common soft subtitles, hard subtitles, forced subtitles and closed captions.

Part 1: All Subtitles can be Extracted from DVD?

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Soft Subtitles: soft subtitles are subtitles that are not IN the actually video. The DVD video file and subtitles are separate as individual files. You can rip soft subtitles from DVD as separate .srt or .ssa file.

Hard Subtitles: opposite to soft subtitles, hard subtitles (aka. burned-in subtitles) are rendered INTO the actual video, which means you can NOT extract hard subtitles from DVD as separate files. To put it in another words, the subtitles and video images are melt into one.

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Forced Subtitles: forced subtitles are commonly on movies and only display subtitles when the characters speak a foreign or alien language. For instance, if the movie uses English for most part, interspersed with some Spanish language, then the forced subtitles only appear in English when the Spanish dialogue shows up. Hence, you're also able to extract forced subtitles from DVD.

Closed Captions: closed captions are essential for people with impaired hearing and are different from the common DVD subtitles. Usually, DVD subtitles are decoded by the DVD player, while Closed Captions are decoded by the TV. Generally, there is hardly no closed captions used in common DVDs.

To sum up, when it comes to strip DVD subtitles, it mainly refers to soft subtitles or forced subtitles, not hard subtitles/closed captions.

Part 2: How to Extract Subtitles from DVD on Windows PC

From the first part, you know what kind of subtitles can be ripped from DVD disc. And now it's time to show you how to remove soft subtitles, forced subtitles or closed captions from DVD as separate .srt, .ass or .ssa file. Generally two steps to go: rip DVD to VIDEO_TS folder and extract subtitles from VIDEO_TS folder via subtitle extractor tool.

Step 1: Free Rip DVD to VIDEO_TS Folder

For Windows PC, you can consider to use free DVD ripper DVD Shrink to free rip DVD to VIDEO_TS folder first.

1. Free download DVD Shrink on Windows PC and fire it up.

2. Click 'Open Files' button to load VIDEO_TS folder or alternatively click 'Open Disc' to load DVD disc. Followed by a tap on 'OK'.

3. Adjust DVD compression settings. Click 'Main Movie' and you can see the titles under main movie. The compression settings is on the right column, where you can freely adjust settings to compress DVD file size at 58.4% compression ratio.

4. In the compression settings zone, the subpicture means DVD subtitles. If there is no subtitles, right click on the Title > tap 'select default streams' > click 'Display the Following Subpicture Streams' > choose subtitle streams that you wanna rip DVD with subtitles.

5. Choose 'Hard Disk Folder' as backup target, browse to choose destination folder, tick 'Create VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS subfolders'. Tap 'OK' to call it begin.

If your DVD discs are commercial DVD, 90% of the time they're encrypted. Though DVD Shrink claims to have the decryption algorithms, it only copes with the basic DVD copyright protection like DVD Region Code, CSS. When it comes to the advanced yet complicated DVD encryption technology, the free DVD ripper is willing to but powerless to render help (no constantly updates on decryption algorithms because of no stable incomes for its developer teams).

If you fail to decrypt DVD in DVD Shrink, free download best DVD decrypterMacX DVD Ripper Pro for Windows to tackle DVD DRM. This is a professional DVD decrypter yet ripper to constantly improve its decryption tech with world high-level developer team. Thus, no matter the common region code 1-6, CSS, UOPs, or the complicated Sony ARccOS (bad sector), Cinavia (audio watermark), Disney X-project (99-title DVD/oversized file), it can easily remove any DVD encryption tech and 1:1 copy DVD to Main title/Full title, MPEG-2, folder, MKV, MP4, H264, HEVC, MOV, iPhone iPad, Android, etc. with subtitles.

Step 2: Free Extract DVD Subtitles on Windows by SubRip

To rip DVD subtitles on Windows PC, the DVD subtitle extractor highly recommened is the we