How to download subtitles for a Vimeo video

Simply append #t=0m0s to the URL to point 0 minutes and 0 seconds past the start of the video. Replace the 0 with your desired values and the link will scrub forward the specified amount in your browser.

Although this wasn't a feature when I asked the question, Vimeo now supports this across the board.

The forum post with the announcement of this feature and an example of how to link to a moment inside a linked video:

http://vimeo.com/forums/topic:49396

Basically, by appending #t=1m5s you can request the playhead be moved to one minute (1m) and five seconds (5s) of the video, so in the case of my question, the URL would be #t=3m28s:

http://vimeo.com/36881035#t=3m28s

Assuming you have Python installed, you can use getyoutubecc, which is a Python script.

Execution is as follows

>> python getyoutubecc Akqkvx407c8

Then keep the video and .srt in the same folder and you should be able to play in VLC.

For a non-technical way try one of the conversion sites such as http://mo.dbxdb.com/, which will download the .srt within a zip.

Select the track from the zip file

And then you should see the subtitles appear

For videos with multiple tracks you will have to dig in and save it from .xml to .srt manually, there isn't a ready made tool out there on the web

http://video.google.com/timedtext?lang=<LANG>&v=<VIDEOID>

Where can be en for English, it for Italian and de for German.
<VIDEOID> is the id of your Youtube video.

For some videos, it appears necessary to specify the name of the subtitle track, as seen on the Youtube page of the video, as a third argument:

http://video.google.com/timedtext?lang=<LANG>&v=<VIDEOID>&name=<NAME>