• Fixed AC-3 pass-through with multiple languages
• Fixed issues with a few specific DVDs
• Fixed audio glitches that happened sometimes
• People can now disable the Check for updates on launch
• Fixed a mem leak

Reason why I like srt is that rendered fonts are much nicer than bitmaps that are designed for TV.

I’ve used handbrake (unfortunately D-Vision can’t pause ripping, a feature I liked a lot in handbrake) and found it too limiting for my needs. I’m now a D-Vision convert :)

I use Handbrake sometimes, too, but I find it hangs in near the end of a handful of DVDs. Handbrake 0.7.0-beta1 is out as of a few days ago. I have yet to try the new version on things that previously caused Handbrake to stop mid-encode.

Any idea what mac software I can use to convert *.sub/idx to srt?

From what I can gather, .sub/.idx files are encoded as bitmap images on the DVD inside the .vob files, and .srt is just a plain text file with timecodes and the text to be displayed in that duration. They’re stored like this as a bitmap, so converting them to plaintext is more than just a matter of juggling data inside a text file – you’re going to need a program to do some optical character recognition. Bonus points if anyone can guess what movie that subtitle image is from :-P

As for actually converting .sub/.idx files to .srt, ffmpegX claims to be able to export .srt files from a given .vob file, but when I tried it, results were less than impressive. It’s no good to me if I have to tell it every other word. There is a tool for Windows called SubRip, which you can grab here. It, too, asked me for characters, but it was much much nicer to use than the Terminal-based utility that ffmpeg used. It asked for a few characters every couple sentences, and stored my reponses for later comparison. Check out SubRip in action. To do the conversion with SubRip, launch it and go to File->Open VOB(s), click Open IFO, and choose your .idx file (which requires the matching .sub to be in the same folder), and hit Start.