Version 1.8.0 release notes

[Romansh]

Can someone elaborate on what changes were done to result in "Improved compatibility of produced MKV files“?

[mike admin]

Only chapters - all chapters now have end times as well.

[Romansh]

OK - thanks for the clarification.

[Chetwood]

What "Additional profile settings"? Are these all:

setFirstAudioTrackAsDefault="true"
setFirstSubtitleTrackAsDefault="true"
insertFirstChapter00IfMissing="true"?

setFirstSubtitleTrackAsDefault="false" will result in all sub streams ripped being set to "default = no", which is what I want?

[mike admin]

setFirstSubtitleTrackAsDefault="false" will result in all sub streams ripped being set to "default = no", which is what I want?

It should. By the way, this option was available for a while...

[Chetwood]

Right, but how do I achieve this?

[bw001]

Right, but how do I achieve this?

Change the default profile or create a new profile in your data directory.

You may also have to enable expert mode on the General tab in preferences.

I just started using this myself.

[Chetwood]

Change the default profile or create a new profile in your data directory. You may also have to enable expert mode on the General tab in preferences.

I have done both as you can see when you follow the link. I've also read up on conversion profiles but can't figure out how to make

- regular subs flagged to default = no (no matter if first sub stream or not)
- forced subs flagged to forced = yes and default = yes.

Would be nice to see Mike chime in on this as well as on how to get MakeMKV to not add a separate forced stream twice.

[mike admin]

- regular subs flagged to default = no (no matter if first sub stream or not)

setFirstSubtitleTrackAsDefault="false"

- forced subs flagged to forced = yes and default = yes.

Not possible, unless the forced track happens to be first (after order weight was applied). If thi is the case, then
ignoreForcedSubtitlesFlag="false"
setFirstSubtitleTrackAsDefault="true"

Would be nice to see Mike chime in on this as well as on how to get MakeMKV to not add a separate forced stream twice.

It's not possible. MakeMKV doesn't know that two separate tracks are identical until it finishes the conversion. And at that time it's too late - while it is easy to remove an empty track, removing a non-empty track requires overwriting all track data.