2016-09-06, 10:42
Hi guys,
Something that's always bugged me about Kodi is how it handles subtitles. If you watch a lot of English TV series but also anime, then you're probably aware of the eternal conflict of having subtitles appear when you don't need them (i.e on an English program) and not appearing when they're wanted (i.e on a foreign language program). I haven't been able to work out how to set Kodi to show English subtitles for videos that are using a non-English audio track and to NOT show subtitles for something that's already in English (i.e the hearing-impaired track).
I'm no programmer, but this doesn't seem like it should be a big problem to me. Most videos have their audio and subtitle tracks correctly tagged with their language, I would have thought it would be possible to have Kodi automatically display English subtitles (or whatever language you've got the GUI set to) if the default audio track isn't English. Hell, even just the option to automatically disable English subtitle tracks when the audio is also English would be nice. If you want to get even simpler, most subtitled videos that already use tags that that correctly identify what subtitle and audio tracks should be enabled by default in the video player, but Kodi seems to ignore these in favor of it's own system.
On a similar topic, is there a good solution for videos with multiple audio tracks? Some videos have both the original language and the English dub, but I'd like the original language to be used.
Something that's always bugged me about Kodi is how it handles subtitles. If you watch a lot of English TV series but also anime, then you're probably aware of the eternal conflict of having subtitles appear when you don't need them (i.e on an English program) and not appearing when they're wanted (i.e on a foreign language program). I haven't been able to work out how to set Kodi to show English subtitles for videos that are using a non-English audio track and to NOT show subtitles for something that's already in English (i.e the hearing-impaired track).
I'm no programmer, but this doesn't seem like it should be a big problem to me. Most videos have their audio and subtitle tracks correctly tagged with their language, I would have thought it would be possible to have Kodi automatically display English subtitles (or whatever language you've got the GUI set to) if the default audio track isn't English. Hell, even just the option to automatically disable English subtitle tracks when the audio is also English would be nice. If you want to get even simpler, most subtitled videos that already use tags that that correctly identify what subtitle and audio tracks should be enabled by default in the video player, but Kodi seems to ignore these in favor of it's own system.
On a similar topic, is there a good solution for videos with multiple audio tracks? Some videos have both the original language and the English dub, but I'd like the original language to be used.