Dear Gromik,

Apparently subtitles are not stored as text files on a DVD disc, just  
as images.

There's a program called Subrip which rips the subtitle file and  
tries to recognise the characters and convert them to a text file,  
which should then be linkable (manually, probably) to video files  
ripped from the disc.  Helpfully (or not) it lists each subtitle with  
hour/minute/second timing)

I haven't done it, but there's a guide to doing this here:

http://www.afterdawn.com/guides/archive/rip_subtitles_with_subrip.cfm

For simple DVD ripping to my iPod and Mac, I use Handbrake (not  
available for Windows), which allows you to convert a DVD to MPEG4  
files on your computer, in Chapter segments or as a whole file.  You  
can add the subtitles, but they are burned into the image, not  
available as an independent overlay and certainly not indexable by  
themselves.

So a simple-but-not-very-automated way of doing it would be to use a  
program like this to rip each chapter on the DVD into an MPEG4 file  
with subtitles burned into it, use an editing program to cut them  
down further if you want and turn the subrip text file into a linked  
HTML file with each subtitle linked to the relevant video clip.

Rupert

FatGirlinOhio videoblog (by a thinnish man in London)
http://www.fatgirlinohio.org
http://feeds.feedburner.com/fatgirlinohio

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