FFMpeg is the swiss army knife of video editors and motion artists worldwide. Let’s take a look at one of the lesser-known (and kinda unexpected) features.
Extract Subtitles With Handbrake
FFmpeg can easily extract embedded subtitles from videos. This command will grab the default subtitle track and export it as a srt file:
What if we want to get a different subtitle? First we need to figure out the track number for that subtitle by running ffmpeg ‑i input_file. You will get an output that something like this:
Notice the tracks are numbered #0:2, #0:3, etc. This is the value we want to pass over to the map command to select the proper subtitle.
Removing HTML from subtitles
There are a number of applications and online services that can strip html tags from subtitles (like HTML Stripper), but you can also solve this quickly with good old sed:
You can make an alias to this in your favorite shell so you don’t have to remember or copy/paste it all the time. Keep in mind that the results of sed won’t be as good as a HTML stripper and company, since this is just a simple regex. That said, it’s usually more than enough for subtitles.
Converting to other formats
While FFmpeg can get this done for you with a limited number of formats (depending on how it was compiled) there is a better alternative. SubtitleEdit is a handy open source application that can convert between 200+ subtitle formats (and do a lot more of course).
Extract Dvd To Computer
If you want to bring those subtitles into Blender check out the SubsImport addon.
Batch rendering is complicated
3 - Use DVDDecrypter to extract the DVD data into your hard disk. 4 - Use CCExtractor to extract the closed caption track from the DVD data. As an example, I will be using the movie Merlin. Remember that DVD subtitles and closed captions are two different things. Extracting subtitles with FFmpeg. FFMpeg is the swiss army knife of video editors and motion artists worldwide. Let’s take a look at one of the lesser-known (and kinda unexpected) features. FFmpeg can easily extract embedded subtitles from videos. Subtitle Extractor, Easily Extract Subtitles from MKV, MP4, AVI, VOB, Any Video on PC/Mac 3 Steps to Easily Extract Subtitles from DVD, MKV, MP4, AVI, VOB. SubExtractor converts subtitles from DVDs and PGS (Bluray.sup) files into Advanced Substation Alpha (ASS) or SRT text format using a simple OCR. Extract subs from (non-encrypted, on hard drive) DVDs and convert to Advanced Substation Alpha format. I try to use the free DVD Ripper software Handbrake or Avidemux to extract SRT subtitles from DVD movies, but both of them only allows me to rip the DVD file with the subtitles encoded in the video. But what I really want to do is only ripping the subtitles and not the video.
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