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Using the default selection rule, is it possible to select the first instance of a favorite language track? In the screenshot, I'd like to select by default the first audio and subtitle English track (not the track highlighted in red). My current rule is:
-sel:all,+sel:(favlang|nolang),-sel:mvcvideo,=100:all,-10:favlang

Thanks

Subtitles are a problem, in that there is no consistency in how they're presented.

There are several ways that they can be provided, using one or more tracks per language. The most usual is a track for "all subtitles", and a track for "forced only" subtitles (those used for signs and such).

Another common one is "all subtitles, with forced ones flagged as forced". MakeMKV will generate a separate track for the forced subtitles, deleting it if it's empty.

A less-common one is to include a track of commentary subtitles. sometimes multiple tracks.

handbrake uses a rule that compares how many subtitles are in each language, and selects based on that; it blows up when there are more than 10% subtitles in the small track compared to a larger track, and also when there are commentary subtitles.

In 20+ years of doing this, I've found that the best algorithm for ME is to extract every subtitle track, watch a section of the track to find out which track is which, then use handbrake to make that the primary track while compressing it. Since I always compress the tracks after extracting them, it's not that much overhead.