I ripped my BD copy of Sound of Music and I have all these subtitle tracks. Can you explain the purpose or how you handle having so many? It looks like at least two are nearly identical...
What is PGS?
BTW: I want this to work well being hosted on my Plex server... Suggestions? Is it better to use an SRT track? Im not sure what that means exactly.
On further inspection it looks like:
-TRK1 = "Main" Normal subtitles...
-TRK2 = "Commentary ST with Julie Andrews"
-TRK3 = "Sing-Along" only...
-TRK4 = looks like same as TRK1 so far. Yet MediaInfo shows far fewer elements... ?
-TRK5 = Main & Sing-Along...
I guess one of the mysteries is the difference between TRK1 and TRK4.
PGS is the graphic subtitle format used primarily on Bluray. It is analogous to the graphic VOB SUB subtitles on DVD, but not the same format.
Without seeing the subtitle tracks themselves, it is hard to say why 1 and 4 seem the same, but... if the movie had multiple audio tracks, one might be intended to be played with the English sound track, the other with the original sound track. It could be that #4 doesn't include song lyrics.
Woodstock, thanks for the feedback, yes I think you're right. The song lyrics don't show on track 4 as they do on track 1. You nailed it!
When editing with MKVToolNix and you just change the names of audio and subtitle tracks, does MKVToolNix have to write the entire movie to disc? I ask because I was expecting this edit to take a minute or two and MKVToolNix says it will be two hours. BTW: I did create another thread.... "MKVToolNix for Dummies..."
A full remux involves copying the relevant pieces to a new file. It gets really fun when you're merging parts of 2 or more sources into one, like when I used to add DVD subtitles to BD rips, because my player didn't understand PGS.
