Ripping subtitles from a TV box set on DVD

I've been scouring the 'net for info on how to do this, but the popular subtitle ripping tools only select the VOBs and then the largest title. I want to rip subtitles per episode, or in DVD terminology, by individual title. Anyone know how to do this?

EDIT: I should clarify that I want the subtitles to be OCR'ed into an srt file.

soren121

Posted 2011-05-21T19:12:00.950

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How have you structured the data, have you ripped by episode or just dumped the entire DVD? – James – 2011-05-21T19:24:10.310

I dumped the entire DVD, because I was planning on then encoding the episodes into MP4 files with HandBrake. – soren121 – 2011-05-21T19:38:27.837

Answers

If you point eac3to at the DVD directory root it should be able to rip the subs by episode. See the wiki for full info.

E.g, the below will extract (for title 3) the:

chapters (track 2)
video (track 3)
audio (track 4)
subs (track 5)

eac3to "G:\Galapagos HD DVD 1080p VC-1 DD 2.0" 3) 2: galapagos.ep2.chapters.txt 3: galapagos.ep2.mkv 4: galapagos.ep2.ac3 5: galapagos.ep2.sup

You will need to do this for each title and you can then use suprip to OCR the .sup file to .srt

EDIT

Alternatively, for .srt you could re-author the DVD using something like DVD Shrink which would allow you to split by episode. Your standard subrip would then read the new structure fine.

James

Posted 2011-05-21T19:12:00.950

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I'd prefer that the subtitles are OCR'ed into an srt file. Probably should have clarified that. – soren121 – 2011-05-21T19:36:16.903

amended for OCR'ing the .sup file and an alternative method – James – 2011-05-21T19:50:21.280

I think this will help:

http://forum.videohelp.com/threads/209730-How-do-I-convert-DVD-or-sub-idx-to-text-srt-subtitles

It contains info on where to locate subtitles, and how to rip them off a DVD.

Brady

Posted 2011-05-21T19:12:00.950

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