[steelman1991]

After many years of attempting to have DSPlayer render 'Forced Subtitles', I happened to stumble across xy-vsfilter, with instructions for use of subtitles within DSPlayer - see https://code.google.com/p/xy-vsfilter/ - the section "XBMC Users", under Install. Configuring xy-vsfilter to 'forced subs only' works perfectly with DSPlayer in my set-up.

I know some have had success with AVSplitter, but I never could get it to work, now finally I have the missing piece of the puzzle.

Hope this might help others in a similar situation.