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Okay,
I thought it would be nice to create a tutorial on how to
rip subtitles from a DVD. I think people are shying away from
doing this merely because it sounds difficult. So let me tell
you now that it is laughingly easy to do! You can even make
your own subtitles, but for now let's just stick to taking
what already exists.
But
why bother getting subtitles? Why not?! Subtitles take practically
no memory on the Divx! In a two hour movie such as my following
example 'The Mummy' DVD to Divx Rip, the whole of the subtitles
will take a micro sized 50KB of extra space! I have never
come across a Divx CD that didn't have many many times that
space left on the CD after the film has finished. Also, its
rather cool to be able to show your friends the Divx you made
that has the option of subtitles.
On
the down side, there are only two DivX Player I know of that
will play subtitles (MicroDVD and DivX MPEG-4 Player)- and
this guide only deals with one of them : it is the excellent
'DivX player 0.01 (or above)' by REDZ (divxplayer@hotmail.com)
please show him your thanks =o). To use it in MicroDVD shouldn't
be too hard either, so no additional instructions are provided
(refer to the MicroDVD readme/guide for more information).
Now on to the conversion, I am going to make a Divx with subtitles
of The Mummy:
Programs
you will need
- MS
Wordpad (or any word processor)
- SubRip
(v0.7b or above)
- SubRip
Converter (0.4b or above)
- DVD
Ripping Tool
Rip
the VOB files from the film to your Hard Disk. Open subrip
and select: File > Open Vob:
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Up
will pop the selection dialogue box seen below. Under the
red Action heading choose the SubPictures to text via OCR.
Click on the Open Dir. Button and find the first Vob that
you Ripped from the DVD. Put a tick alongside the VOB files
you want to rip the text from.Once you have selected the Vob
file that contains the subtitles, you are ready to go. Make
sure the Vob file is the one with the film on it and not something
else on the DVD. Click Start.
Note:
DVD's use actual picture files for their subtitles. This means
that the computer has to use Optical Character Recognition
(OCR) to convert the picture to a text file.
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The
following window will appear next to make sure the picture
is clear. If the text looks white on a black background click
the OK button. If not, change the 'color 3' box (or whatever
it is called) to another number, or you could try the auto
detect
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button.
When it looks correct click the OK button.
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If
you are running the program for the first time the computer
must learn the letters. Be patient and answer its questions
by typing in the correct letter as it asks. It is important
not to put in the wrong letter and also to make sure that
the capital and lower case letters are the correct. Don't
worry, the reading process will get faster as you go along.
After the first 30 or more letters the computer will almost
completely take over.
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The
text that the computer has read is shown in a white box below.
The picture that the DVD uses is shown above it. If you cannot
see the white Subtitles box, click the 'show subtitles text
windows' to see it. Now, sit back and wait until the whole
file is ripped.
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Now
the computer has learned what the text looks like you can
save this information to a file for future use. This is a
good feature because you do not need to tell the computer
what certain letters are every time you use it. To save this
information, go to Characters Matrix > Save Characters Matrix.
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When
you choose your next Vob file to rip, you can go to Characters
Matrix > Open Characters Matrix and load this information
once again ie.
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Now
the important thing to do is save the text you just ripped.
Go to the white Subtitles window and select File > Save as.
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Note:
The processed text is literally nothing more than a text file
even though it may have the extension .srt or .sub or whatever.
Continue
to do this for every Vob file you rip and you will have about
five text files each with subtitles on them. If you were to
open them in wordpad they would look something like this:
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MicroDVD
can read the SubRip format, but you won't be able to use MicroDVD's
more advanced features like setting font face, size, position,
color for each subtitle line seperately. So it is preferable
to convert this to MicroDVD's native subtitle format first.
To do this, open 'SubRip Converter'. In the frame rate box
select 25 if you use a PAL CD and 29.7 if you use NTSC. Select
the input file ie. the one you just ripped. And the output
file ie. where you want to save the converted text. Once done
click the Convert button.
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The
finished file will have a .txt extension unless you change
it to something else. The converted file will look like this:
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Ignore
the bracketed numbers as they tell the Divx or MicroDVD player
when to put the text up. Next you want all of your text files
made into one single file. So open the first of the text files
you have converted in Wordpad (or another word processor).
Then open Wordpad again and then open the next converted file
in that. Copy the text from the second text file and paste
it into the first. Do the same again for each text file until
you have just one single text file with the text of the movie
in it.
Relax,
we are nearly done ;) You can now open the text in any word
processor such as Microsoft Word and spell check it. Once
you are happy with the finished file save it with the SAME
name as the Divx movie and use the extension .sub. I called
my Divx movie: 'mummy.avi' because it was a DVD rip of the
film 'The Mummy'. So to save the subtitles text I will save
the file as: "mummy.sub". Please include the quotation marks
(" ") to force the word processor to save it with the .sub
extension otherwise it will save it as something like mummy.sub.txt
or mummy.sub.doc!
Thats
it! Save both the text file and the AVI file on the same CD
and you are finished. Open the CD in Divx Player and it will
tell you that subtitles have been found. You can choose the
font you want and the color too. Here is how the finished
Divx looks, cool huh!
Download
already ripped subtitles
Too
play this subtitles you need SubViewer 2.0. You can get him
from here.
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