Extracting subtitles from .avi files

[TheOneX]

Is there any way to extract the sub title from avi, theese subtitle are not "permanent".

When looking at them inside Windows media player it says,
"DirectVobSub (auto-loading version)".

But when trying to convert them into other formats, the subtitle doesn't follow. programs are (all to avi, xilisoft 3gp)

Is there any way to extract the subtitles or to convert the .avi into other format including the subtitles ???

Thanks in advace,
TheOneX

[setarip_old]

Hi!

Didn't you already extract the subtitles from the original source material (presumably a DVD), when you created the .AVI and used VOBSub to incorporate them in the .AVI?

[TheOneX]

No, the movie file was downloaded as a .avi file.
I wanted to somehow convert the files to other format, but to include the subtitle.

I have tried many programs but strangely, the subtitle doenst come with, it is just the movie alone.

I tried looking for " DirectVobSub (auto-loading version) " but couldn't find any problems that looked like this one....

To convert a .avi file with (DirectVobSub (auto-loading version)) into another format with the subtitle included (permanent or not)

Thanks in advance

[castellanos]

Well, it seems that setarip_old's question revealed the truth!

@TheOneX:
You should read the rules (http://forum.doom9.org/forum-rules.htm), specially the 6 one.

[momoaal]

what about that ....
i made a movie (avi) as educational presentaion ...
and a german friend made subtitles for it ...

the presentation is in 4 langages (Eng, Fr, Spanish, German)

i want to extract the german subtitle , then change some parts of it .... then remux it ...

is there any way to extract the subtitles from my movie then remux it again after i update it ??
;)

[setarip_old]

Hi!is there any way to extract the subtitles from my movie then remux it again after i update it ??1) What software and procedures did you use to add the subtitles to the video?

2) It would probably be easiest to work with the original subtitle file that your German friend made for you

[castellanos]

the presentation is in 4 langages (Eng, Fr, Spanish, German)
So, then I assume the subs are "soft", that means, 4 subs tracks into the avi, right?... or you have 4 avis with 4 differents "hard" subs on them?

If the subs are soft, then use avimuxgui to extract the subs, then you can work on the German one.

Greetings!

[momoaal]

first ..thanks for all who interested to help me ..

let me explain it in more details :

- i have this project/presentation ... made as one (1) .avi file ...
- the presentaion has 4 subtitles ..Eng, Fr , Sp, German.

we made that so everyone of us can use the presentation to view it in diffirent situations / countries ....etc

the 4 subtitles have the same text ... translated into the 4 languages ....

we have the digital copy of the movie ..., and we made some updates , so we need to update the subtitles for those new added movie parts .. !

- we made Eng. subtitle , then it's translated to other languages ...
- then we merged the subs to the avi clip with (Avisub) .. as i think ! so as u say its hard subtitles .. right ??

i managed to extract the video & audio of the clip
but, i couldnt extract the subs !! :(

but this is not a problem , since we have the original video !
the problem is that we can't make those subtitles from scratch again .. we just have limited time ! :(

so , the easier way , i suppose , is to get the original .srt files (which we don't have) ,add the modified parts , then merge it again ... to the updated video ...

any ideas ?? would be appreciated ........

[setarip_old]

@momoaalwe made Eng. subtitle , then it's translated to other languages ...then we merged the subs to the avi clip with (Avisub)Please explain - If you translated the English subs to other languages BEFORE merging into the .AVI, you should have a separate subtitle file for each of the languages already available to you.

So, why do you now have to extract one of the subtitle streams from the .AVI?

[castellanos]

so , the easier way , i suppose , is to get the original .srt files (which we don't have)...

I agree with setarip_old. When you creatd you project, you merged the subs streams into you avi (Those are "soft" subs). Where are those srt files, did you delete them?
Please, use AviMuxGui (http://www.doom9.org/Soft21/Editing/AVI-Mux_GUI-1.17.7.zip) to extract the subtitle streams.
Greetings!

[foofoohightec]

If the subs are soft, then use avimuxgui to extract the subs, then you can work on the German one.

Greetings!

Hi,
What if the subs are "hard" ?! Because I have a similar problem (I think!), except that the subs in my movie are hard coded. I've burnt a Divx movie to DVD after embeding subtitles through VirtualDub. I need to extract subtitles from movie in order to change font size and embed them back to movie.
Thanks.

[KoD]

Look at the SubRip application that's in the sticky.

[ninjaw]

Guys, he used AviSub not avimuxgui.
Avimuxgui deals with MKV+SRT
AviSub deals with DivX+XSub

That means basically the Srt text has been recoded into Xsub graphic, and right now, I dont know any divx demuxer, or even any Xsub reader/converter

[Mtz]

Yes, but if he used AviSub, the final video must to have .divx extension and vobsub will not autoload for divx files which include subtitles streams. Or if it will load, that will be not for subtitles; for decoding.
TheOneX, if the movie is a divx file you can extract the subtitles in raw using avinaptic, but I don't know any program which can convert them to srt.

enjoy,
Mtz