How to Extract Subtitles from a DVD to Separate SRT Files

Follow this guide to learn how to easily and directly rip subtitles from DVD to SRT files with an efficient DVD subtitle extractor.

There are some conditions we need to extract subtitles from a DVD as separate SRT files for foreign language learning or other purposes. However, it's common to extract video or audio from a DVD, it's not an easy task to rip subtitles from physical DVD discs since almost all DVD rippers lacks the feature of subtitles extracting. So, is it possible to extract just subtitle from a DVD?

Luckily, there is such a DVD subtitle extractor that can directly rip subtitles from a DVD to SRT files with preferred languages. With it, you don't need any other subtitle editing software. And that's why this article exists. Keep on reading to learn how to easily extract subtitles from DVD as SRT on Windows and Mac.

Get The Best DVD Subtitle Extractor - EaseFab LosslessCopy

The fact is that very few of DVD subtitle extractors can directly rip subtitles from physical DVD discs. Subtitles in DVDs are stored in VOB files, together with the main video and audio tracks. DVD subtitles are just a stream of image files which appear one after another. Different from text -based subtitles, subtitles in DVD can't be edited, scaled or modified.

Luckily, the special DVD subtitle extractor - EaseFab LosslessCopy, can easily and directly extract separate SRT files with one desired language or multiple languages from any commercial DVDs. Moreover, you can use it to convert DVD to digital formats like MP4, MKV, MOV, etc. with desired internal subtitles, with added external movie subtitles, or with translated forced subtitles on screen where a different language is being spoken.

More than handling subtitles in different ways, LosslessCopy has other top performance when it comes to dealing with DVDs & Blu-rays.

• Support all types of commercial DVDs and Blu-rays regardless of copy protection and region codes.
• Extract all or selectable subtitles from DVD and Blu-ray to separate SRT files with preferred languages.
• Digitize Blu-ray/DVD to MP4, MKV, AVI, MPEG, AVI, MOV, HEVC, iPhone, iPad, HDTV, etc. with excellent output quality.
• Backup a full DVD or a full Blu-ray in 1:1 ratio within 5 minutes to hard drive, USB drive for storing.
• Offer customizable output settings for users to adjust resolution, bitrate, codec, etc to produce optimal file size.
• Boast a built-in video editor to crop, trim, add watermark, remove/replace audio, apply effects, etc.
• Finish conversion at ultra-fast speed - up to 30x faster using GPU acceleration.

Download and install EaseFab LosslessCopy on your computer and then follow the step-by-step guide below to extract and rip subtitles from DVD as SRT file.

How-To Extract Subtitles from DVD as SRT File with LosslessCopy

Step 1. Load DVD movies

After you open EaseFab LosslessCopy, click Load disc button to add the DVD files you want to rip. On the software main interface, there is a viewing window provided for you to preview the DVD files to ensure the files are what you want to rip. You can also take snapshots of the DVD movies when previewing them. You can also import DVD folder and ISO image files into 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. Start extracting SRT files from DVD

Press the right-bottom blue Convert and start ripping DVD subtitles to SRT file.

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.