Clarification on MKV forced subtitles

(2012-04-14 15:41)BORIStheBLADE Wrote:  Im a bit confused.. When I rip from MakeMKV if the movie has forced Subs I just leave the box checked. Then XBMC will play if I have subs enabled. Is this something that doesn't work for you?

There are 10 sub tracks, in each language. Each has forced subs as part of it.

I.e. if it's on the whole show it'll do the English and foreign speaking parts, if it's off it does nothing not even the foreign language parts.
The flags are definately there though.

XBMC currently does not support forced subtitles in PGS streams (what you get from a Blu-ray/HD-DVD disc). I don't personally rip to MKV, so I'm not that familiar with it, but from what I understand the forced flag in MKV just tells XBMC to enable the subtitle stream even if the default preference is to have subtitles disabled. In other words, it does not cause XBMC to pick out the particular subtitles which are marked as forced within the stream.

I'm working on putting together a build of XBMC Eden geared towards playing rips of my Blu-ray collection, and I have implemented the forced flag in the PGS decoder (tested with Avatar). I've mostly been testing on the raw unmodified mpls/m2ts files you get from a Blu-ray disc, but I don't see why it wouldn't work on MKVs. If you guys would like to try it, I've posted the links in the following thread: http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=128935