How to remove subtitles from a video
To be able to have fun, you have the opportunity to do many pleasant activities. Among the latter, it is possible to remember, for example, sports, trips out of town or the computer. Through the PC, you can perform many actions, including surfing the web to get informed or watch videos.
The vision of these videos can take place in social networks or some Internet portal. Quite often, users instead decide to download them online, through special computer programs. When downloading, sometimes it could happen that a video clip illegally plays a DVD in AVI/MKV or has some annoying subtitles.
In the latter case, it is necessary to eliminate the unnecessary writings that ruin the movie. In the first situation, it must be remembered that downloading copyrighted material is a criminal offense.
Consequently, the download of the video clips will be done only for films not covered by copyright. In this computer science tutorial, we see exhaustively how to remove subtitles from a video, simply and precisely.
Needed: VirtualDubMod, Computer or laptop, Internet connection, MSU Subtitles Removal, Web browser, VDM, Avidemux, ImTOO DVD Subtitle Ripper, MKVExtractGUI-2.
Download and install VirtualDubMod
To remove subtitles from a video downloaded through a specific computer program, VirtualDubMod is required. This software also allows you to extrapolate tracks from an illegally copied DVD and is capable of simply editing/correcting movies. VirtualDubMod is a freeware computer program under the GPL license, which allows you to perform some video-editing functions.
Made in 2001 and continuously updated over the years, VirtualDubMod has become quite renowned. First of all, connect to the official VirtualDubMod website and download the VirtualDubMod_1_5_10_2_All_inclusive.zip file to your computer. Once you have finished downloading the latter, you must press it twice.
In this way, all the contents will be extracted to any system folder. After opening the latter, the computer program VirtualDubMod will start by clicking the .exe file. Then all that remains is to follow the easy software installation procedure.
Remove unprinted subtitles with the Stream list option
Do you want to remove subtitles from an AVI/MKV video consisting of unprinted subtitles? In this regard, it is necessary to click on the Open VideoFilm item on the VirtualDubMod File menu. Next, you need to go to the Streams menu and press on the wording Stream list.
Doing so will open a dialog where you have to locate the items with the description Text Stream. The latter is related to the subtitle tracks and will be deleted by double-clicking on them. At this point, you will have to confirm the changes made by selecting OK. Then you just have to save the project through the Save as the option of the File menu and then have the private video of those hateful initial subtitles.
Remove the overlay subtitles with the MSU Subtitles Remover plugin
The elimination of the superimposed subtitles from a video downloaded from the Internet requires instead of the VirtualDubMod plugin called MSU Subtitle Remover. First, connect to the official website of this computer program and go to the bottom of the page. Here you need to click on the item Unpack this file in the VirtualDub plugins folder. File size 150 KB (in ZIP), so you can download it once the download is complete, double-click on msu_subtitle_remover.zip and extract the contents in the plugins folder inside the VirtualDubMod folder.
Then open the software again and load the video from which to remove the subtitles. Continue by selecting the wording Open Video File from the File menu and Filters from the Video menu. Now you will see a dialog where you need to press once on Add and twice on MSU Subtitle Remover.
Recode the video via the Compression option
At this point, go to the third button of the Output playback toolbar and wait for the total playback of the movie, so that the plugin identifies the subtitles. Then choose Filters from Video, double-click on MSU Subtitle Remover and put a check in Detect and remove.
Continue by saving the changes, double-clicking on OK, and selecting Save as from the File menu. Before finishing the work, it is necessary to recode the video. In this regard, click on Compression from the Video menu and then on the program that will take care of recoding (codec) to be used.
At this point, the video will finally be free from those subtitles present initially. So here is how to remove subtitles from a movie with VirtualDubMod. This software is highly appreciated thanks to its ease of use, its efficiency, and its conversion/extraction/modification functions.
Use VDM, Avidemux, ImTOO DVD Subtitle Ripper or MKVExtractGUI-2
To remove the subtitles from a video downloaded online, it is also possible to use additional computer programs. These include, for example, VDM, Avidemux, ImTOO DVD Subtitle Ripper, and MKVExtractGUI-2. After downloading the latter software from the official web portal, you need to install it.
At this point, it is necessary to load the video from which to eliminate the subtitles present and to start the ripping or extraction in the desired format. Through ImTOO DVD Subtitle Ripper, it is necessary to open the DVD and decide in which format to save the subtitles from being extracted from the movie.
Then you can select the subtitle language to export to the PC. Then all that remains is to start the process of removing the subtitles by clicking on the disc icon with an arrow.
Note! Carry out tests, Do not download copyrighted material, as it constitutes a criminal offense.
