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Yes, that's what I've meant. The 2 minutes clip you provided was enough to determine that the only German subtitle track inside the VOB in fact DOES contain forced items. Apparently MakeMKV does not check for flags in DVDs (I don't think I have ever ripped a DVD with it) so you need to do this manua...

-sel:subtitle&(all)

or something?

You could use DVD Shrink to rip a short clip where Chinese is spoken with all tracks and upload this so people can have a look.

You're probably better off getting a cheap Android media player or a Raspi 4 than wasting time and energy on conversion (if space is not the issue).

-sel:all,+sel:(deu|eng|nolang),-sel:(core),-10:(forced*(eng)),-15:(deu),-20:(forced*(deu))

pretty reliably gets me only English and German audio and subs.

You can also use BDSUP2sub to check out the images.

But it is there. When I look at The Sopranos in MakeMKV there are two English tracks, and one is marked as forced. On the resulting MKV there are two English tracks, and neither is marked as forced. Setting setFirstForcedSubtitleTrackAsDefault="true" in the preferences file should make th...

Try

-sel:all,+sel:(eng),-sel:(core),-10:(forced*(eng)),-15:(eng)

No.

Why not play back the BD (in VLC) and cycle through the subs so as to know which is which?

Nice find! I've just checked this and it seems to be accurate

PGS1:
1836 items in Mediainfo
917 items in BDSup2Sub

PGS2:
40 items in Mediainfo
20 items in BDSup2Sub

Looks like yet another method for Mike to implement an automatic recognition of forced subs that aren't flagged.

You can use TSMuxer to extract the sub from the m2ts or MKVCleaver to extract it from the MKV to see how large it is. It's usually pointless to skip it cause it's so small.

Krawk wrote: ↑

Sun Mar 29, 2020 5:52 pm

But if you watch the movie, not once do you see the subtitle track so why are they selected?

Because of the default settings of MakeMKV. You can set them according to your needs.

How to disable automatic subtitles
hxxps://makemkv.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=21730

Don't remember that being the case on my girlfriend's FireTV. In any case, you can playback a movie, select the tracks you want and then save this as default.

But, some discs are very special and have a huge number of forced subtitles (f.e. Narcos). Right, but wouldn't the language in that case help as the second identifier? You'd ignore all the other small subtitle streams but of your preferred languages. I work around the mess by having MakeMKV rip eve...