VLC record button not saving subtitles from DVD

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Very simple question regarding VLC. I researched and found nothing.

I need to "record" a short clip from a DVD while the keeping the subtitles. So I start playing the segment and the subtitles show up fine. Then I stop recording and look at the saved file. The saved filed has not "captured" the subtitles. I need an elegant solution to have the subs be recorded. This should be very simple but for some reason the "record" button does not include the subs even though while recording they are being displayed. In the end, I want to use the captures to make GIFs with subs. I want to use the included subs from the DVD and not have to resort to .srt files.

http://wiki.robotz.com/index.php/Recording_Video_With_VLC

^ I read this as well.

Best Answer

As far as I know, subtitles are generally on a separate file, .srt, that are overlaid onto the movie,so that explains why vlc won't record it. If you get the movie and subtitle files you can burn the subs on then cut as you like.

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Windows – How to resize DVD subs in VLC

Go to Tools -> Preferences -> Subtitles and OSD (or CRTL+P). There, you will find an option to change the subtitle size, among other configurations.

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Mac – Subtitles not displaying correctly in VLC

I have had that happen with several different .ass subtitles. For example subtitles with the Plain with border style were not displayed correctly in these subtitles:

[V4+ Styles]

Format: Name, Fontname, Fontsize, PrimaryColour, SecondaryColour, OutlineColour, BackColour, Bold, Italic, Underline, StrikeOut, ScaleX, ScaleY, Spacing, Angle, BorderStyle, Outline, Shadow, Alignment, MarginL, MarginR, MarginV, Encoding
Style: Default,Trebuchet MS,40,&H00E6F4FC,&H000000FF,&H00000000,&H00000000,-1,0,0,0,100,100,0,0,1,1,1,2,10,10,10,1
Style: Plain with border,Arial,30,&H00000000,&H000000FF,&H00FFFFFF,&H00000000,0,0,0,0,100,100,0,0,1,2,0,5,10,10,10,1

It was fixed by changing the bold attribute from 0 to -1 or just deleting the styles completely. MPlayerX has also displayed those subtitles correctly.

You can extract subtitles from mkv files with mkvextract:

brew install mkvtoolnix
mkvextract tracks video.mkv -c UTF-8 3:subs.srt

Another common issue is that VLC shows characters that are not included in the default subtitle font as rectangles. It can be fixed by just changing the default font. You can also change the text rendering module to CoreText font renderer, but it makes text look too thin in my opinion.

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