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I'd love to see support for forced subs in FFmpeg/XBMC as well. Like voip-ninja, I've got a bunch of files with forced subs in them. I've been ripping all of my Blu-ray discs with tsmuxer and using m2ts containers with the audio and PGS sub tracks I'm interested in. I'm seeing the same behavior as described earlier in this thread. If I turn English subs on, for example, I get both the normal subs for all dialog in addition to the "forced" subs usually containing foreign or "alien" language.
I just got my Avatar Blu-ray and was going to rip it, but without support for forced subs I guess I'll just have to find another way to figure out what the Na'vi are saying :-)
Glad to see support for PGS though. One step at a time I suppose...
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i have several xbmc setups running here
when i put my blurays on my NAS with makemkv i can play the subs good on all windows versions (pretty recent versions, i use the build from phil65 with AEON)
but on my MAIN set the revo 3600 9.11 LIVE i dont get the subs
how do i solve this?
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2010-05-05, 23:46
(This post was last modified: 2010-05-05, 23:50 by calev.)
the xbmc nightly build support pgs in mkv so you could just turn in into an mkv and you could just take out all the subtitles except the navi subtitles for example with mkv tool nix
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Sorry, i've got a bit confused by this. I understand ffmpeg doesn't yet support forced subs, but the process i've been going through with my encoding is to use Handbrake, set it to do a 'Foreign Audio Search' (looks for both any subs that are forced, and any sub tracks that exist for <10% of the film length) as the 1st sub track, set to default, and then standard English subs as the second sub track. This *seems* to work fine (With the additional bonus that if FAS doesn't find any short or forced subs it just doesn't exist, rather than encoding an entirely empty sub track) in that I get 2 sub tracks and in players such as VLC the 'Default' flag on the FAS track causes it to get selected automatically.
However in XBMC I still have to manually turn on subs and select the right track. Does XBMC ignore the default flag, or interpret it differently in that it is simply the first sub track to be selected when you turn them on as opposed to turning them on by default *and* selecting that track, or what?
Thanks in advance
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it simply doesn't respect the default track and selects the first in the list.
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elepus had said he was going to open a bug report with the ffmpeg guys but not sure it's happened yet.
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This is interesting news. I just scooped up a dirt cheap Aspire Revo 1600 to start testing with so I will see if I can test this out in the next week or two.