[MPlayer-users] Extrtact DVD subtitles

[Kim Minh Kaplan]

Christof Buergi writes:

> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Am Mittwoch, 30. Oktober 2002 01.57 schrieb Fabio Pugliese Ornellas:
>> dos anyone knows a way to extrract dvd subtitles to a .srt, .sub ou
>> whatever similar format of subtitles?
>
> Not possible. Well, at least not easily.
>
> .sub, .srt and the like are text based formats. They contain the text 
> to be displayed in ASCII, along with the necessary timing information. 
> vobsub, on the other hand, is bitmap based. The subtitles are stored as 
> pictures.
>
> There is some OCR-Software specialized on this task. Don't expect 
> perfect results, though.

The specialized software from MPlayer is called subrip and is in the
TOOLS subdirectory.  Ah, yes don't expect perfect results :)

Kim Minh.