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.MKV created with Handbrake, selected the English subtitle track & chose "Forced Only", and set this as the default subtitle track.
Playing this file back in VLC Player & MPlayer OSX Extended on Mac work great. The Forced subs are appropriately displayed during the foreign language scenes. However, on XBMC I get no subtitles displayed. Is there an option I need to enable in XBMC? thanks for any help
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If you go into audio settings while the file is playing, are subtitles enabled?
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Are you referring to "Audio Settings" in "System"? I was not aware there were subtitle settings in the audio section.
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No they mean if you bring up the OSD while the file is playing (the thing with the progress bar and the circular icons for bookmarks, audio and video settings) - and choose audio in there, does it have 'enable subtitles' set?
Although i am not sure how this corresponds to forced subbies - which I am not sure about being supported at this stage...
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Brought up the OSD and subtitles are enabled. Subtitle track says the English subtitle track is being used, which is the default. Subtitles just are not displaying. All checking forced subs does in handbrake is creates a subtitle track with only the subtitles marked as "Forced". Basically the rest of the subtitle stream is just blank. These are working on MPlayer for OSX & VLC. I don't understand if XBMC has the track enabled and subtitles enabled why it is not displaying them. Forced subs are a PITA. I like it when they just come burned into the video....but then again, I only care about watching these movies in English (Region 1).
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Has anybody else seen this issue before?
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yes, i do.
I got an MKV with internal subs.
It doesn't show.
a normal .avi with a same name .srt along side it works superbly!
most of my matroska files are asian movies, without the subs i'm just watching people talking gibberish.
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MKVs with softsubs work just fine for me.
Running Ubuntu 9.10 with XBMC 9.11.
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2010-01-07, 23:16
(This post was last modified: 2010-01-07, 23:19 by officeboy.)
It's not much help, but I encode with handbrake and my subs work fine too.
But I don't use the forced only setting. I wonder if this is working properly in Handbrake? (ie it's not detecting the forced subs so your subtitle stream is empty)
You should demux the mkv and see what the subtitle stream has in it.
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2010-04-05, 21:48
(This post was last modified: 2010-04-05, 21:49 by chridmiller.)
I too have had this problem with forced subtitles. I have checked the files with VLC, Media player and Quicktime and they all work with no problems but XBMC still wont play the subtitles. When checking the subtitle options when the file is playing it does not display any available subtitles.
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A sample with forced subs that totaly refuse to display would help.