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I am not sure if this is an issue with XBMC or the way I am ripping the movies but when playing a movie like "Captain Phillips" I either have to have subtitles on all the time or off all the time. It will not display them normally like the movie would if I was just playing the disc. When playing the disc subtitles will only come on when the language spoken is not english. Is there a way to correct this?
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Perhaps tell us how you rip them
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You want forced subtitles on, not the subtitle track. If you ripped them, you need to rip all the english subtitle tracks, not just the main one.
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Ok maybe you could help me with that. I am using makemkv to rip the movies. The only options I see under preferences > language is interface language which is set to auto and preferred language which is set to none. Should I set preferred to english?
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That is a question for somebody that has used MakeMKV. I use DVDFAB to rip my movies. You may also check subscene or opensubtitles.org. Sometimes, many times in fact, I've been able to find the sub I'm looking for in a matter of minutes. You can download these directly through XBMC.
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Ok, just to make sure you are understanding. I have the english subtitles and I can turn them on or off, but they do not automatically come on when the spoken language changes from english.
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Without using an external player, I don't think you're ever going to get that functionality. There's simply not enough control over the subtitles and/or individual streams. Why not just leave subtitles on permanently and then set up a button on your remote to choose the next subtitle language. It won't be the exact setup you're looking for, but it will limit your interface with the system.
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Hmm, ok, that's a bummer. But I guess you answered my questions. Thanks.
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I'm not saying there's no way to do it, just none of found personally. There very well could be a way to do what you want within xbmc.
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2014-12-02, 05:15
(This post was last modified: 2014-12-02, 05:48 by brazen1.)
Try pausing the movie and navigate to the player control menu, the audio tab, scroll down to subtitles and then select the up/down arrow. If you ripped your title properly, all subtitles will be there including English subtitle for foreign spoken language if that track was included with that title. I think Kodi remembers the selection for every movie separately? If you're simply T ogling your only options are enable/disable and defaults to which sub is on the top of the list. I have my remote programed so each time I press subtitle it scrolls through all available subs. I can only scroll one direction, down. English is usually default at the top of the list so I have to scroll through the entire alphabet until I reach the last sub track and then click once more to get to Subtitles disabled when I want them off. So the function is a blessing and a curse.
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2014-12-02, 10:49
(This post was last modified: 2014-12-02, 10:50 by jjd-uk.)
Correctly flagged Forced sub's should automatically appear, there should be no need to go into the menus and enable subs, if this is not happening then it is a bug which needs to be fixed.