1. A method for indexing digital video content maintained on a storage media item, the method comprising: extracting caption and subtitle content from one or more video object (“VOB”) files maintained on the storage media item; segmenting the extracted caption and subtitle content into one or more segments; extracting video and audio content corresponding to the one or more segments; generating one or more descriptions of the video and audio content corresponding to the segmented caption and subtitle content; and indexing the captions, subtitles, descriptions and corresponding video and audio content associated with the one or more segments of the one or more VOB files.
10. The method of claim 1 wherein segmenting the extracted caption and subtitle content comprises segmenting the caption and subtitle content using one or more stop words.