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You need to get the correct subtitle stream - usually the forced subs.
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It is a question of ripping the correct subtitle stream when ripping your bluray.
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You can also often download an additional subtitle track using the subtitle downloader add-on inside of XBMC. Look for ones called "forced" and then you should get what you want.
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2013-05-25, 02:11
(This post was last modified: 2013-05-25, 02:12 by Ned Scott.)
It should. I had to do this recently with a copy of Argo that I had ripped, but forgot to rip the subs. I was able to use the subtitle downloader to download a track labeled "forced" that only displayed subs when people were not speaking English.
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No - a new encode would be required.
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2013-05-25, 12:21
(This post was last modified: 2013-05-25, 12:22 by Ned Scott.)
Once you get the "Forced" subtitle, it will be an external sub file and it will show up as another option in XBMC. What I would do for the long term is use a program that will let you remux (no encoding is required, it just repacks the file) that forced subtitle track, and set the "forced" flag. See
Supplemental tools (wiki) for whatever OS you are using for an app that will do this.
Then the subtitle file will be inside the video file, and you can turn normal subtitles off, but it will still work for those non-english parts.
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I don't think we have been talking about hard burned in subs at all, but the OP was not particularly clear.
Certainly people who say that the subs are "in the file" are often very unclear as to whether they are truly hard subs or just a stream within the file.
In other words we are both right, depending on what the OP started with.
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