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There's no need to go back to PGS since you've lost positioning and color info anyway. Stick with SRT then cause it's the most supported format.

This is why I asked about changing the positioning that's "baked" in the mkv. As said before, the BD subs are images, so items can have different positions on the screen and different colors (denoting the actor currently speaking), all of which will be lost when converting to text-based S...

Use MakeMKV to create a decrypted copy and demux the subitle files with tsMuxeR. What are the file sizes?

When using mkvtoolnix, are the subtitle tracks always displayed downward? Meaning whatever track #1 is in VLC, it will always be the top track listed in mkvtoolnix. Track #2 in VLC will always be the second from the top in mkvtoolnix and so on. But even if I did that, and found out that there are f...

And what's stopping you from doing that BEFORE you rip the movie, so you can deselect unwanted subtitle tracks, not even ripping them with MakeMKV? And how do you know before ripping the disc? MakeMKV doesn't know which ones there are By playing back the disc before ripping it and cycling through t...

I managed to download an outdated version of mkvtoolnix from another website. It's really ridiculous that I can't even download the current version from the actual website. I agree, cause you can get it easily from Moritz's page or from Videohelp . Instead, to find out which are the forced subs, I'...

Are the forced subs items flagged as such in the regular track or is there a separate track with all the forced items but not flagged as such?

I agree with Woodstock but if you still want to try (on Windows though) you could use Staxrip or X Media Recode.

Doing the above has allowed me to finally get the Forced Subtitles on Avatar, Avengers Assemble and Charlie's Angels, thus far. So the 3 Disc Collector's edition has no items flagged as forced as opposed to the regular US BD of Avatar which is one of the very few US BDs that has been authored this ...

AVGeek99 wrote: ↑

Wed Feb 19, 2025 6:36 am

Is there a simple way to identify which of the subtitle tracks should be marked as forced?

Play back the movie in VLC an enable a subtitle track. If someone is speaking and there's no subitle shown, it's most like the forced track.

ripthem wrote: ↑

Fri Jan 24, 2025 9:36 pm

I want all videos track, all german and english audio and subtitle tracks.

Me too, which is why I use this: -sel:all,+sel:(deu|eng|nolang),-sel:(core),-10:(forced*(eng)),-15:(deu),-20:(forced*(deu)).

Since Vobsub uses less colors than PGS, you usually do lose a bit of quality but it's usually acceptable. Since PGS are better/bigger, they are easier to OCR than Vobsub, so I personally always go with SRT. Losing positioning doesn't matter that much IMO.

Oops, I keep English and German subs only so and apparently I've adjusted my command badly above. If you wand to keep only all English subs, this should do it: -sel:all,+sel:(eng),-sel:(core),-10:(eng),-20:(forced(eng) The "lighter" tracks rise to the top, that means the English forced (IF...

Should look something like this: -sel:all,+sel:(eng),-sel:(core),-10:(eng),-20:(forced*(eng).

Sounds like too much work to implement for Mike when he won't even implement some kind of parse function like BDtoAVCHD's 'Scan bitrate'. After parsing is done, it shows each track's size so you can pinpoint the forced tracks easily without having to extract them first. If it detects items flagged a...