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... one of the files that I was able to make from the MakeMKV GUI (note, no subtitles, but it does have chapters, could that be it?): Format : Matroska ... : Closed Stream size : 1.04 GiB (97%) Language : English Default : No Forced : No Original source medium : DVD-Video Audio ID : 2 ID in the original ...

... that is the problem. None of the subtitle tracks seem to be the forced one, at least as far as the MKV file is concerned. When I play the DVD's through an Xbox or DVD player, the forced subtitles work as designed. When playing the MKV file through VLC or Plex, it's ...

Whenever you figure out which of the 4 subtitle tracks is the forced subtitle track, you'll probably need to use mkvpropedit (part of MKVToolNix) to mark that track as forced and default.

... up the DVD set of Season 6 of Better Call Saul and cannot get the forced subtitles to show. MKV pulls four English subtitle tracks, one of which is cast and director ...

How can you tell if a film contains forced subs or not? You play back the first 10 seconds of the first dialogue spoken in the movie with the first subtitle activated. If the dialogue you hear is matched on the screen than this is a regular ...

It's more a case of finding when you do NOT have forced subtitles. Disks such as Bleach have one subtitle track, which is "all subtitles", with ...

@Woodstock How can you tell if a film contains forced subs or not? If I extract all tracks and watch thru VLC for example looking for them, I would need to know in advance the film actually uses forced subs to queue up that scene and check for them. ...

Actually, MakeMKV finds subtitles... it just doesn't know which ones are "forced" or not. DVDs are as bad as BDs, in that the first subtitle track is not necessarily the "forced" ...

... them into MP4 files. However I'm running into this reoccurring issue of Forced subtitles. I know MakeMKV can't find forced subtitles on DVD's for some odd reason and I've ...

Since MakeMKV can't recognize forced items inside DVD tracks you'd have to extract the track that you suspect of containing them and then use BDSUP2SUB to extract those items into a separate track to be manually muxed into the mkv with MKVToolnix.

MakeMKV looks for subtitles. It will try to make a "forced only" subtitle track out of a full track by looking at the flags... and VERY FEW disks have flagged-as-forced ...

... them into MP4 files. However I'm running into this reoccurring issue of Forced subtitles. I know MakeMKV can't find forced subtitles on DVD's for some odd reason and I've ...

... : 450 Stream size : 27.7 KiB (0%) Language : English Default : Yes Forced : No Original source medium : DVD-Video And here's one that plays ... : English Language : English Default : No Forced : No I merged the subtitles back into the file without subtitles and it works fine as well, ...

... DVD. If those tracks include "foreign audio only" or "forced" subtitles, those would be available if you select to include that track. These could be in ...

I've only got the BD version of Death Note, so the subtitles are probably different. When you open the disk and look at the detail ... each language? Are any of them indented further, with a notation of "forced only"? (this shouldn't happen on a DVD)