[MPlayer-users] extracting subtitles from .vob

[Paolo Bolzoni]

I use transcode, check this wiki page I started time ago:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Convert_any_Movie_to_DVD_Video#Subtitles_from_another_DVD_video

On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 1:21 AM, Mike Castle <dalgoda+mplayer at gmail.com> wrote:
> I haven't done this in a while using mencoder, I'd switched to
> handbrake, but looking at my old script, this is what I'd used to do:
>
>     mencoder \
>       -nocache \
>       -dvd-device $dvd \
>       -chapter $chapters \
>       -msglevel muxer=0:decvideo=3:cplayer=1 \
>       -quiet \
>       -vobsubout $track.$chapters.vob \
>       -vobsuboutindex $count \
>       -vobsuboutid $slang \
>       -sid $index \
>       -aid $aid \
>       -oac $oac \
>       -ovc copy \
>       -o /dev/null $track.$chapters.1.vob
>
> (I would extract EVERY vobsub to repack into an MKV)
>
> oac would either be copy or pcm, based upon other criteria (I think
> LPCM wouldn't work?)
>
>
> Don't know if -oac pcm would help you in this case or not.   Apparently I'd use:
>
> mplayer -vo null -ao null -frames 0 -dvd-device %s -identify dvd://%d
>
> to figure that out.
>
> (Yes, my old system randomly mixed bash and python, depending on when
> I wrote bits and pieces)
>
> If I remember correctly, you pretty much need the .IFO files in order
> to get the right colors to use for the languages.
>
>
> Finally, if all you want is english, you might find it easier to look
> for Closed Captions before OCRs vobsubs.
>
> I always use ccextractor -srt -o foo.srt foo.vob  to get those as well.
>
> You could check to see if that got you anything first, and if so, skip
> the vobsub/OCR step.
>
> mrc
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