How to extract subtitles from a Blu-ray and convert to srt or sub/idx

[Baldrick]

How to extract the subtitles, so called PGS subtitles, from a Blu-ray. It might be useful if you have converted your Blu-ray to mkv,mp4, etc and forgot to include subtitles.



Tools required:
AnyDVDHD, to be able to decrypt the blu-ray, you could also try free DVDFab HD Decrypter to first rip the Blu-ray to your HDD.

HdBrStreamExtractor, it's a GUI for eac3to so you need both or download eac3to and HdBrStreamE together here.

BDSup2Sub to create sub/idx subtitles, it requires that you have installed Java runtime.

suprip to create SRT subtitles.



Guide


Extract Blu-ray subtitle streams
In HdBrStreamExtractor choose your Blu-ray drive or the BDMV folder if you have ripped the Blu-ray.
Set output folder.
Click on Features and wait wait wait....
Click on the title you want to extract from, the longest is usually the main movie or extended version, etc (play the movie to check what version to get). And wait again...
Choose the subtitles tracks you want to keep.
Extract and you will get sup files for each subtitle track.



Make srt subtitles, SUP to SRT
Start Suprip
Load the sup files that HdBrStreamExtractor created.
Click Auto OCR to automatically convert to text. But if you get a lot of strange characters you must manually identify the characters. Click Image and step forward and click on the red characters and type in what it says and OK, repeat for all. If you think is too much work make sub/idx subtitles instead(see below)



Make sub/idx subtitles, SUP to SUB/IDX
Start BDSup2Sub by just double click on bd2sup2sub.jar
Load the sup files that HdBrStreamExtractor created.
Set the FPS target same as the FPS source.
File->Save/Export and save it and you will get a idx and sub file.




Done. You can now for example multiplex the srt or sub/idx subtitle with your video to a mkv with mkvtoolnix.

[cjbrown80]

What method would I use if I want to make a bluray backup file in .m2ts but with the subtitles hard-coded onto the h.264 stream?

[Baldrick]

What method would I use if I want to make a bluray backup file in .m2ts but with the subtitles hard-coded onto the h.264 stream?

You use ripbot264, it can hard code subs and output as avchd/bluray. But this has nothing to do with this thread.

[cjbrown80]

Yeah, sorry, feel free to delete my post. But thanks for answering my question.

[yak_vi]

Thanks for this guide!!

[Stormshadow]

Any idea on how to delete/change "Karakter Matrix" like u can in subrip if you've hitten the wrong key by mistake??

I've done that by mistake no and leave me with a shitload of edit work if i rip the text completly.

I've try'd deleting the program and downloading a new one but it still remembers all the characters i've typed in. (this is the "only" change i would make to the software if i could, would be nice with a karakter matrix file u could just delete and start over) or is it just me that can't find it.

[cal_tony]

Suprip has a ever increasing data file named temp.font.txt in the folder Documents and Settings/User/application Data/supprip

For errors that need to be cleaned up a global find and replace in Notepad is an easy way to make srt fixes.

Tony

[Stormshadow]

Hmmm i can't find that folder or even "temp.font.txt" when looking manual or search...

I'm on Win7 x86

[cal_tony]

Well. don't what to say say other than I'm using Win xp and that file is constantly updating with each use. It is now 16.5 mb in size.
As time goes by I have noticed that in many cases when doing the conversion to srt I may only have to make 5-10 corrections

Also, If you have known errors in your data file you can go back and correct the data file by redoing that line of text in suprip. Manually locate the line in suprip and type in the new text and the program will remember the new inputs.

Tony

[Stormshadow]

Ahhh didn't realice u could edit but actually clickin on the letter in the pic and not in the srt field... dohhhh..

still can't find the font file but guess it all worked out afterall in the end then

[cal_tony]

The font file has the .txt designation but it is just a data file with columns of mostly 0s and on occasions other numbers but no letters.
It looks like the other font files in the programs folder but it is much larger. So I was wondering if in the suprip folder the other fonts have the designation ****.font.txt

Tony

[Stormshadow]

Nope.. they are all the 200-600 kb size.

[docbillnet]

Thanks for the guide. I've been looking for a while now for a program to rip blu-ray subtitles under Linux. The programs you referenced run under Wine, and have fairly accurate results.

[Legiit]

Hi, I know the thread is a little old but how do you load .SUP into suprip? I'm using latest version and all I can see is :
Open VOB(s)
Open Image Sequence
Open Hard Subbed Video Files

Should i use an earlier version of subrip?

[manono]

Hi, I know the thread is a little old but how do you load .SUP into suprip? I'm using latest version and all I can see is :
Open VOB(s)
Open Image Sequence
Open Hard Subbed Video Files

Should i use an earlier version of subrip?

Are you using SUBrip, rather than the required SUPrip?

[Legiit]

Are you using SUBrip, rather than the required SUPrip?

Yes lol. Downloaded both at same time and opened wrong one.

[docbillnet]

Are you using SUBrip, rather than the required SUPrip?

Yes lol. Downloaded both at same time and opened wrong one.

Don't feel bad. One of the reasons it took so long for me to figure out how to rip blu-ray subtitles, is I kept making the same mistake. Even after I was using both programs regularly for awhile, I kept wondering why the two programs had the same name, but somehow majically each knew which file types to open... A p is just a b upside down, and since it seems like a spelling mistake to call something a sup file, most people simply read it as sub. It is not much different that when I was at university and spend several hours trying to figure out why a program wouldn't read my .1st files, until eventually someone typed it in upper case and I notice they were suppose to be .LST files.