How do I take a photo of subtitles?

[Johnfused]

With Cyberlink Power DVD (and I guess other players), when I take a picture of the screen, it fails to capture the subtitles. Any workaround for this? (They won't answer me.)

I'm posting here, since I'm having problems ripping and/or encoding subtitles (sometimes they seem to rip, but not encode, i.e. sometimes I can see the hundreds of mpgs of the subtitles, but they don't get wrapped into the final product; other times they don't even seem to get ripped.

I'm doing a simple side-step to see if I can do something really simple, but I don't even seem to be able to do this. If I can take pics of the subs on the screen then I'll spend more time trying to do the whole subtitle thing.

Tray of bread pudding to useful answers.

[Tommyknocker]

What are you playing in PowerDVD? That is, what type of file?

[Johnfused]

Thanks Tommyknocker! (Hey, someone's out there!)
Well, it's a bought DVD; bought in Japan, so Japanese NTSC, under an hour long, er, with only Japanese audio, ditto subtitles.
So the answer I guess, is ... a dvd file. You know, I bang the DVD into the player, click the camera button in Power DVD at every subtitle change, it takes pictures, but when I come to view them, hey, there's no subtitles. Because it's bought you can't actually select/view it as files, that' only an option with DVR's I've recorded from tele. Forgive the surplus info, but am trying to prevent you having to rephrase your question.

As I said, I want to see if I can get this dead simple action solved first before I 'waste' more time trying to rip/ then add English subtitles and glue the docu together again. The latest soft I've tried is SubRip, which looks great, it rips the subtitles, I can seem 'em getting ripped, but where are they? They're bmps and a file search says there aren't any -- despite the fact that it ripped 250! I've got 256M of Ram and two hard drives with 4G free in each. PIII 600.

Thanks, T. Looking forward to your wisdom when the sun comes up. Good night.

[aguillon]

Install Vobsub, it takes your Subrip subtitles and adds them to the movie when you play it in Media Player.

If you are encoding a rip using VirtualDub, there s also a Vobsub filter which can overlay the Subrip subtitles for you. By default, they are bitmapped subtitles. If you want to get them as a text file (for translation for instance) you gotto run Subrip through the OCR process.