Forced subtitles as part of main subs. track - advice requested
Posted: Mon Apr 13, 2020 7:42 pm
Hi (new board member here),
I've been slowly ripping my DVD and BluRay collection so the disks can go in the loft and we don't have to keep swapping them (and my wife get's the shelves back!). Most disks with so-called "forced subtitles" have a separate track with them in or burned into the film itself, which makes them fairly easy to deal with (setting default and forced on the appropriate subs track is enough for Plex).
I've come across a few films, such as 50 First Dates and Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day where the forced subs are part of the full subtitle track but are individually marked as forced for the few subs that are narrating foreign language sections, for example. I've managed to extract just the forced subs using BDSup2Sub but I'm not sure if adding my own sub track to the MKV is the right way to do this, or am I missing something obvious like a flag I need to set to make if just used the "forced" subs from the existing track (and ignore the others) by default?
Any advice or help would be hugely appreciated - I love this forum, I've learnt so much from you guys from just reading other posts already!
I've been slowly ripping my DVD and BluRay collection so the disks can go in the loft and we don't have to keep swapping them (and my wife get's the shelves back!). Most disks with so-called "forced subtitles" have a separate track with them in or burned into the film itself, which makes them fairly easy to deal with (setting default and forced on the appropriate subs track is enough for Plex).
I've come across a few films, such as 50 First Dates and Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day where the forced subs are part of the full subtitle track but are individually marked as forced for the few subs that are narrating foreign language sections, for example. I've managed to extract just the forced subs using BDSup2Sub but I'm not sure if adding my own sub track to the MKV is the right way to do this, or am I missing something obvious like a flag I need to set to make if just used the "forced" subs from the existing track (and ignore the others) by default?
Any advice or help would be hugely appreciated - I love this forum, I've learnt so much from you guys from just reading other posts already!
I just wanted to check I wasn't doing something completely daft!