diff --git a/test/parameters.json b/test/parameters.json
index af77b89b4..cbff9bd16 100644
--- a/test/parameters.json
+++ b/test/parameters.json
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
     "retries": 10, 
     "simulate": false, 
     "subtitleslang": null, 
-    "subtitlesformat": "srt",
+    "subtitlesformat": "best",
     "test": true, 
     "updatetime": true, 
     "usenetrc": false, 
diff --git a/test/test_subtitles.py b/test/test_subtitles.py
index fbc9eaf4d..3f2d61d36 100644
--- a/test/test_subtitles.py
+++ b/test/test_subtitles.py
@@ -240,10 +240,6 @@ class TestVimeoSubtitles(BaseTestSubtitles):
     url = 'http://vimeo.com/76979871'
     IE = VimeoIE
 
-    def test_no_writesubtitles(self):
-        subtitles = self.getSubtitles()
-        self.assertEqual(subtitles, None)
-
     def test_subtitles(self):
         self.DL.params['writesubtitles'] = True
         subtitles = self.getSubtitles()
@@ -261,19 +257,6 @@ class TestVimeoSubtitles(BaseTestSubtitles):
         subtitles = self.getSubtitles()
         self.assertEqual(set(subtitles.keys()), set(['de', 'en', 'es', 'fr']))
 
-    def test_list_subtitles(self):
-        self.DL.expect_warning('Automatic Captions not supported by this server')
-        self.DL.params['listsubtitles'] = True
-        info_dict = self.getInfoDict()
-        self.assertEqual(info_dict, None)
-
-    def test_automatic_captions(self):
-        self.DL.expect_warning('Automatic Captions not supported by this server')
-        self.DL.params['writeautomaticsub'] = True
-        self.DL.params['subtitleslang'] = ['en']
-        subtitles = self.getSubtitles()
-        self.assertTrue(len(subtitles.keys()) == 0)
-
     def test_nosubtitles(self):
         self.DL.expect_warning('video doesn\'t have subtitles')
         self.url = 'http://vimeo.com/56015672'
diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/vimeo.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/vimeo.py
index 303e81447..5930d5984 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/vimeo.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/vimeo.py
@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@ import re
 import itertools
 
 from .common import InfoExtractor
-from .subtitles import SubtitlesInfoExtractor
 from ..compat import (
     compat_HTTPError,
     compat_urllib_parse,
@@ -51,7 +50,7 @@ class VimeoBaseInfoExtractor(InfoExtractor):
         self._download_webpage(login_request, None, False, 'Wrong login info')
 
 
-class VimeoIE(VimeoBaseInfoExtractor, SubtitlesInfoExtractor):
+class VimeoIE(VimeoBaseInfoExtractor):
     """Information extractor for vimeo.com."""
 
     # _VALID_URL matches Vimeo URLs
@@ -368,12 +367,10 @@ class VimeoIE(VimeoBaseInfoExtractor, SubtitlesInfoExtractor):
         text_tracks = config['request'].get('text_tracks')
         if text_tracks:
             for tt in text_tracks:
-                subtitles[tt['lang']] = 'http://vimeo.com' + tt['url']
-
-        video_subtitles = self.extract_subtitles(video_id, subtitles)
-        if self._downloader.params.get('listsubtitles', False):
-            self._list_available_subtitles(video_id, subtitles)
-            return
+                subtitles[tt['lang']] = [{
+                    'ext': 'vtt',
+                    'url': 'http://vimeo.com' + tt['url'],
+                }]
 
         return {
             'id': video_id,
@@ -389,7 +386,7 @@ class VimeoIE(VimeoBaseInfoExtractor, SubtitlesInfoExtractor):
             'view_count': view_count,
             'like_count': like_count,
             'comment_count': comment_count,
-            'subtitles': video_subtitles,
+            'subtitles': subtitles,
         }