This can be useful if, for example, you acquire an. Using VobSub's DirectVobSub component or a media player that supports the SUB / IDX subtitle format, users can play back DVD-format subtitles alongside the movie they were meant to be used with. Subtitle settings typically appear at the beginning of an IDX file, on lines that begin with #, and timestamps and image references appear later in the file, on lines that begin with timestamp. The IDX file contains metadata that tells a media player what color the subtitle text should appear in, where the subtitles should appear on-screen, and when and in what order to show the images the SUB file contains. The SUB file contains images that are shown as subtitle text. When VobSub extracts subtitles from a DVD, it creates two subtitles files: a SUB file and an IDX file.
VobSub is a free program that allows users to extract and play the subtitles stored on DVDs.
