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I have tested this on my Atv and windows pc with up to date XBMC.
With .MKV's and .srt files I can get subtitles to play.
I am trying to get external subs to work with .ISO's and have no success. Im sure this goes for all platforms.
Can external subs be used with .ISO's?
I have searched on the forums and didn't find any threads related to my question.
thanks
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probably not - but you can browse for them afterwards. it's rather tricky to use them with iso's automagically - menus and shit gets in the way. which title does it apply to? etc.
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A good example is Starwars Ep 1 Phantom Menace.
The movie has forced english subs, but apparently they are in a video stream.
What I was looking to do is rip all my movies in .ISO with no subs and the movies with forced subs I would download the files and play them that way.
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prae5
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If you are ripping your movies, why would you not want to include forced subs?
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prae5
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I understand that, but why wouldn't you want to embed them when ripping?
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I guess xbmc doesn't respect forced subs then if your asking this question never tried myself ?
Forced subs are actually within the full English subs for all dialogue with the non English parts having the forced flag you can easily rip just the forced parts to srt those are what you can download you can add those to dvds and retain the menus but its a tricky process, not all dvds have forced subs some are still a separate stream just containing non English
Personally I would just rip those movies to mkv with makemkv and forget about menus
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prae5
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Can't say i've ever had any problems with forced subs on iso's.
Just seems a very round about way to achieve it, if you have problems with the iso's you could always through it through makemkv and it will give you a mkv with the embedded sub.