How to extract and view subtitles only on Mac OS X?

[lupin]

Hi guys,

I'd like to be able to extract the subtitles from DVDs that I own, and be able to view the English along-side foreign language subtitles.

In my quest to learn Italian (and soon French), I've been watching Italian DVD movies with subtitles in English and Italian. It'd be oh so useful to be able to have these dialogues in text files, for both languages. Basically I need to extract the subtitles files and make them readable in something like TextEdit. What I need is something close to this Windows program:
http://www.afterdawn.com/software/video_software/subtitle_tools/vobsub.cfm
which works in conjunction with:
http://www.afterdawn.com/software/video_software/video_tools/virtualdub.cfm

Now I need an OSX solution. Perhaps TitleLab could do it? Do you know of such subtitle extractors/rippers for Mac OS X?

http://www.azinesoftware.com/titlelab.php
(oops, just tried it, it seems like TitleLab isn't up to the task of doing this for DVDs)

By the way, **which files on the DVD are the subtitle files**??

"Cellulo can also import subtitles from the most popular file formats and
have them displayed over the movie. No setup required, just drop your
subtitle file and watch the show."
http://www.cellulo.info/

Others say use Virtual PC:
http://forums.3ivx.com/cgi-bin/ikonboard/topic.cgi?forum=7&topic=32

I'd like to find an OSX native solution for doing this.

Thank you all in advance.
- Lupin

[galactica]

lupin? as in THE LUPIN?

sorry wish i could help you out man...
Id love to learn another language from movies... what a sweet idea!

[WiseWeasel]

I doubt it's THE lupin (as in the creator of DVDBackup). I don't think there are any solutions to do what you want in OS X. I'd suggest using those apps you mentioned for Windows in VirtualPC. They should perform OK, as they aren't too processor-intensive, as long as you can avoid encoding or decoding movies in VirtualPC.

[lupin]

I doubt it's THE lupin (as in the creator of DVDBackup).

Sorry Galactica & WW, Lupin is a popular Japanese anime character -- actually it's more popular in Italy than anywhere else, as Lupin has the most prototypical Italian lad's personality. Highly recommended:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00000JL3V/qid=1080232118/sr=2-1/103-922...v=glance&s=dvd

(not my list but . . . ):
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/listmania/list-browse/-/364SYAN48P8AC/qid=1080232...220966-4592615

Thanks for the tips guys. Maybe I will load up VPC. I have a 1GHz TiBook, running Panther, 1GB RAM . . . which version of Windows should I load up?
- Lupin III

[WiseWeasel]

Win2K. It's the only one that performs acceptably in VPC. Oh, and of course I know who Lupin III is, he's my hero, if only he could score with Fujiko...

[maguirer]

I don't think there are any solutions to do what you want in OS X.

I think ffmpegX can extract subtitles with the correct timings. I tried it once with some success. I've also done it on the command line using tcextract (part of transcode), then subtitle2pgm, then pgm2txt (uses gocr), then srttool, and finishing with TitleLab. The latter sequence of tools is if you eventually want QT text tracks (I think it's what ffmpegX uses, but you have more control doing it yourself)

The results aren't the best (largely due to the quality of the OCR in gocr, which is decent, but has problems), and I would recommend the subtitle archive sites first if the subtitle you're looking for is available.