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Table of Contents

Why Extract Subtitles?
Types of Subtitles in Video Files
Embedded subtitles
Soft subtitles
Hardcoded subtitles
Things to consider before extracting subtitles and captions
Extracting Subtitles and captions with Mux
How to Extract Subtitles and captions with FFmpeg
Identifying which streams to extract
Extracting subtitles to an SRT File
Extracting subtitles to VTT (WebVTT)
Extracting subtitles to ASS (Advanced SubStation Alpha)
Dealing with Character Encoding
Automating Subtitle Extraction for Multiple Streams
Taking it further
Subtitle extraction FAQs

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