[Warner306]

Hoping someone can help me resolve a problem displaying embedded subtitles in some of my MKV files.  All of my movies (Bluray and UHD Bluray) are ripped to MKV files.  One some (mostly UHD Blurays), the embedded subtitles for foreign languages or alien languages do not display when watching the movie in Kodi DSPlayer.  But if I play the same file in VLC Media Player, the subtitles play correctly. 

For example: In the UHD Bluray of Marvel's Black Panther, there are subtitles for all of the Wakandan/African words.  The subtitles show up perfectly in VLC Media Player, but not Kodi DSPlayer. 

I've confirmed that the subtitles are flagged as Default and Forced in MKVToolNix, so I suspect I just have something configured wrong in Kodi DSPlayer. 

Any suggestions for a fix

I ran into one other person who had this issue. It is strange because I have working PGS subtitles for both Blu-ray and UHD in mkv format.

Can you select the subtitle stream manually during video playback with the audio settings menu?

You could try using VSFilter instead of XySubFilter for subtitles.

To do this, you would have to install these external filter files as described under DSPlayer Starter Kit and replace the reference to xysubfilter with xyvsfilter:

https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid...pid1966557

The syntax for xyvsfilter should match the name used for xyvsfilter in filterconfig.xml. You would only have to add if for the rule referencing mkv files to test. External LAV Filters are also required as these files automatically use external rather than internal filters.

The other fix would be to download and add .srt subtitles to these files.