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roadzy
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Subtitles

Post by roadzy »

I'm a bit confused and hope someone can explain this better to me. Just got done with my HDDVD collection and I am moving on to my DVDs. On my HDDVD i selected just the english subtitles so in the event there are forced titles, its there. Now I'm doing the same process on my DVDs and every one has the subtitles turned on by default. What am I doing wrong?
bw001
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Re: Subtitles

Post by bw001 »

What do you mean "turned on by default"? Are you referring to the checkboxes selected in MakeMKV or that your player defaults to display subtitles?

I know with XBMC, I have to turn off subtitles and then set that as the default setting. Otherwise, they alway display.
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Even when both default and forced flag are set to no in the mkv?
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fryk.
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Re: Subtitles

Post by fryk. »

In MKV every language should have its "default subtitle track".
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Post by bw001 »

Chetwood wrote:Even when both default and forced flag are set to no in the mkv?
Default flag on the subtitle track was probably set to Yes, since that appears to be the default when I rip.
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Re: Subtitles

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Hasn't been for a while.
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Romansh
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Re: Subtitles

Post by Romansh »

Chetwood wrote:Hasn't been for a while.
It still is, AFAICT. Are you sure you're not disabling it in your conversion profile?
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Re: Subtitles

Post by Chetwood »

My conversion profile looks like this:

ignoreForcedSubtitlesFlag="false"

-sel:all,+sel:(deu|eng|nolang),-sel:(core),-10:deu,-15:forced

This should have no influence on the default flag being set or not. Apparently it does cause using the default profile the first sub is flagged as default.
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Re: Subtitles

Post by Romansh »

Maybe a bug.
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Post by Chetwood »

Pretty much the first bug in my favour, ever ;)
fryk. wrote:In MKV every language should have its "default subtitle track".
You're sure about that, is it in the specs? Apparently it's not mandatory for mkvmerge-
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Re: Subtitles

Post by fryk. »

FlagDefault
Set if that track (audio, video or subs) SHOULD be active if no language found matches the user preference.
http://matroska.org/technical/specs/index.html
The "default track" flag tells the player that this track should be played unless the user overrides that decision somehow. You usually mark the original audio track with "default track" and leave it off for the rest of them, e.g. for the director's commentary or some translations you don't want (e.g. Lord of the Rings, mark "English" as "default track" but not "German" and "Director's comments (English)").
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p ... ost1529705

So the flag SHOULD be set, no force.
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