2017-03-06, 08:27
(2017-03-06, 01:46)scott967 Wrote: OK but I would think the program would need to either process the entire stream and compute statistics on it, or employ some sort of adaptive control with look-ahead or look-behind
You have a point, processing the entire stream is not an option. Look-behind is a bit of a misnomer, because Kodi can easily track how many non-forced subs it has encountered so far without having to "look" backwards. I think it might be reasonable to conclude that if we haven't encountered _any_ non-forced subtitles in the stream yet, then the stream is abusing the forced flag. A possible exception would be right when playback begins, in case a movie starts in a foreign language or something. Look-ahead could be a solution to that exception.
