How to Rip DVD with Subtitles and Extract Subtitles from DVD?

Subtitles are an important part of DVDs. Many major studio releases include multiple subtitle tracks in different languages, which improves the viewing experience for audiences in different regions. So, is it possible to rip a DVD while keeping your preferred subtitles intact? Yes. Some tools can even extract subtitles from a DVD as separate files. In this tutorial, I will show how to rip DVDs with your preferred subtitles, including forced subtitles and soft subtitles, and share tips on how to extract subtitles from DVDs.

Part 1. How to Rip DVD with Subtitles (Soft and Forced)

First, let's look at how to rip a DVD while keeping subtitles. Many DVD ripping tools can retain the subtitle tracks you want. Below are step-by-step guides using three tools: DVDFab DVD Ripper, HandBrake, and VLC.

Rip DVD with Subtitles via DVDFab DVD Ripper 

DVDFab DVD Ripper is a multifunctional DVD ripping tool that lets you rip DVDs with subtitles to a wide range of digital video or audio formats for playback on your PC and other devices, such as media players and home theater systems. It supports not only physical discs, but also DVD ISO files and VIDEO_TS folders as input. It can also extract subtitles from DVDs for more flexible backup and management.

DVDFab DVD Ripper

• Rip DVD with subtitles in 4 modes: directly render to video, remux into file, extract to IDX/Sub file, or extract to SRT file.
• Rip any copy-protected DVD disc, ISO file, or folder.
• Rip DVD to 1000+ video/audio formats and 260+ devices.
• Extract the whole or part of subtitles from DVD as SRT files.
• Add external subtitles (SRT/ASS format) to the DVD video.
• Rip DVD with forced subtitles only.
• Built-in video editor can customize video size, effect, subtitles, speed, color, watermark, and more.

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How to Rip a DVD and Keep the Subtitles You Want?

Ripping DVDs with desired inner subtitles means extracting the DVD content (usually movies or TV shows) while including the subtitles embedded within the DVD. This way, the downloaded digital video file would include the subtitles provided in the original DVD. DVDFab DVD Ripping software lets you preserve all the inner subtitles or select subtitles you want to retain. 

Step 1: Open DVDFab DVD Ripper and click the "Ripper" module. Put the DVD you want to rip in your DVD drive.

Step 2: After DVDFab recognizes DVD, click the "Ripper" option. A suite of choices for output video will extend out, just pick your desired title, chapter, audio tracks and output formats. Also, click on the "Subtitle" button and select your desired inner subtitle.

Step 3: Click "Advanced Settings" and select your desired subtitle mode as "Direct render to video" or "Remux into the file".

• 💡Remux into file: you can disable or enable subtitle during playback.
• 💡Direct render to video: subtitles cannot be disabled as they are embedded into the video (you can only choose one subtitle stream for input).

Step 4: Select the output directory to save your ripped DVD video with desired inner subtitle. Finally, click the "Start" button to begin the DVD subtitle ripping process.

How to Rip DVD with Forced Subtitles?

Forced subtitles appear automatically for short sections (e.g., foreign/alien language lines) even when regular subtitles are off.

Step 1: Load your DVD to DVDFab DVD Ripper. Select the profile for your output video.

Step 2: Select the "Subtitle" dropdown arrow to enable "Display only Forced Subtitles". You have 3 options to select: Forced only, Normal and forced only, and Scan Forced Subtitle.

Step 3: Once all settings are done, click the "Start" button to rip your DVD video with forced subtitles.

How to Add Subtitles to a DVD?

If the DVD doesn't include the language you need, add an external subtitle file (e.g., .srt, .ass, .sup) during ripping.

Step 1: Launch DVDFab DVD Ripper on your PC. Select Ripper and add your DVD. 

Step 2: Rip the DVD to MKV, MP4, and other formats by clicking "Choose Other Profile"

Step 3: Navigate to Subtitle and click Add External Subtitle in the dropdown menu to add subtitles to your ripped file.

Step 4: Find and upload your subtle file from the system. From the pop-up video editing window, select the subtitles' font, size, character sets, color, style, etc. 

Step 5: Customize your video settings and set the output destination. Click the Start button to add external subtitles to your ripped DVD videos.

Rip a DVD with Subtitles with HandBrake

HandBrake a free and open-source video converter supported on multiple platforms like Mac, Windows and Linux. It is a handy tool for ripping DVDs with embedded with its simple interface. You can export your DVD in MKV and MP4 files hassle-free. 

However, after our test we find that HandBrake is unable to rip just the subtitles and it's a difficult process that often results in an output video without subtitles. So the quality of the subtitles in the video might significantly degrade.

Let's see the process to rip DVD with subtitles with HandBrake:

Step 1: Launch and open Handbrake. Insert your DVD disc into the PC's hard drive. Tap the Open Source tab from the upper-left menu bar. Handbrake will thoroughly scan the disc and display all the titles and chapters. 

Step 2: Tap the Title tab to select the title or chapter with the content to be ripped and extract subtitles from DVD. Select the desired output format, preset, quality, and encoding codec.

Step 3: Then click the Subtitles option from the main menu in the center of the screen. The subtitle will be chosen by default. However, you can open the subtitles drop-down menu and select the DVD track to retain. Furthermore, you can add external subtitles to the ripped DVD video.

Step 4: Check the Burn in box in the center. Hit the Browse button at the lower-right corner and select the output path for the file. 

Step 5: Hit the Start Encode tab in the upper-given menu bar and begin the conversion. Wait for a few minutes until Handbrake rip DVD with subtitles. 

Rip DVDs with Subtitles with VLC 

Not many people know that VLC Media Player is also a popular free tool for adding and extracting subtitles from DVDs. Learn how to rip DVDs with subtitles:

Step 1: Launch and open VLC on your computer. Insert the disk to be ripped into your DVD drive. Tap Media from the top menu bar and choose Convert/Save. 

Step 2: Move to the Disc tab and choose your target DVD. Check the No disc menus option to skip the DVD menus. Select the disc title to be ripped under the Disc Selection menu. 

Step 3: Find the Subtitle track option under the Audio and Selections tab beside the Audio track option.  Choose the subtitle to be ripped with the DVD.

Step 4: Click the Convert/Save button and choose Convert from the drop-down menu. Tap the Document icon in the new window in front of the Profile section. 

Step 5: Tap the Setting icon and select your file's encapsulation Format from the displayed list. For example, choose MP4.

Step 6: Tap the Subtitles tab and enable the subtitle capture. Click Save. 

Step 7: Set a name for your Profile and tap the Create button. You will find the Convert window again. Select the newly created file from the Profile drop-down menu and tap the Browse tab to set your file's path. Specify your destination and tap Start. VLC will gear up to rip DVD with subtitles.

Part 2. How to Extract Subtitles from DVD

Extract Subtitles from DVD with DVDFab DVD Ripper 

Besides ripping DVDs while keeping subtitle tracks, DVDFab DVD Ripper can also export the subtitles you choose as separate files, either IDX/SUB or SRT, which makes backup and subtitle management more flexible.

Step 1: Download and launch DVDFab DVD Ripper. Choose the "Ripper" module from the option bar. Then insert your DVD to your optical drive.

Step 2: Click the button of "Choose Other Profile" to convert your DVD to MP4 or other digital formats. If you only want the subtitles output, click "Subtitle" > "SRT". Then DVDFab will help you extract only the subtitles from DVD to SRT files.

💡How to choose the container?

• MKV plays nicely with both VobSub and SRT across desktop players and many TV boxes.
• MP4 is widely supported but less friendly to VobSub; pair MP4 with SRT for smoother playback on web and mobile.
• Media servers: With Plex-style libraries, SRT is usually the safest, bandwidth-efficient choice for multi-device streaming.

Step 3: Return to the main interface and select the movie title, chapter, audio tracks and subtitles you want to rip and extract. 

Step 4: Click "Advanced Settings" to adjust the video, audio and subtitle settings; Select "Extract to idx/sub file" or "Extract to srt file" and DVDFab will create a separate file for the subtitles.

Step 5: Select the output directory at the Save to part. You can choose to save it on your local hard drive or a mobile device. Finally, click on the "Start" button to start the DVD subtitle ripping process. DVDFab will rip the DVD content but also extract the subtitle file (srt or idx/sub file format) and save it in the same directory as the video.

Extract Subtitles from DVD (VOB) with SubRip  

SubRip subtitle editor is another proven tool to extract subtitles from DVDs despite being text-based SRT subtitle files, SUP files, BMP, or SubPictures from DVDs for free. However, this DVD subtitle extractor can not directly rip subtitles from physical DVD disc because it only recognize VOB files. Check how to rip subtitles from DVD with SubRip:

How to Rip Subtitles from DVD VOB files

Step 1: Download and open SubRip on your Windows 7 or above version. Tap the VOB button in the first screen's toolbar.

Step 2: Hit the Open IFO tab and load the IFO file. 

Step 3: Move to the Language stream to select the subtitle file you want to rip. Head over to the right section of the screen. In the Characters matrix file, choose New File. 

Step 4: Under the Action section, choose SubPictures to Text via OCR. This helps in extracting subtitles from DVD that are text-based.

Step 5: Hit the Start button to extract subtitles from DVD.

Conclusion

Many beginners and novices may find ripping DVDs with subtitles complex as it involves many technical steps, and missing even one may make things worse. However, we have recommended the four best tools with an easy process to assist you with DVD subtitle ripping. Among them, DVDFab DVD Ripper is the only tool that can both effectively extract subtitles from DVD and rip DVD with subtitles. It is a great tool to rip subtitles and rip DVDs to multiple audio/video formats at lossless quality.