It appears that what Plex calls “forced subtitle support” is merely “automatic subtitle selection” and has nothing to do with true forced subtitles. It’s all well and good that Plex will automatically select an English-language subtitle track if I have set English as my preferred audio language and …

I can’t speak for VOBSUB as I haven’t watch any media with known forced subtitles and having that format. However, all my media that I have that use SRT and have the force flag set as true work as anticipated. And my setting for audio/subtitles is to only auto turn on subtitles if the audio langua…

“Forced” is not a track-level flag in VOBSUB and PGS, it’s a subpicture-level flag. Forced subtitles are mixed with non-forced subtitles in the same track. SRT format does not support forcing at the individual subtitle level.

@Qwertz said: MakeMKV will, but only at rip time, and not correctly (it mysteriously includes some subpictures that are not forced). I’m working on writing my own tool to do it, but I’m mired in pointer hell. Have you ever tested Subtitle Edit ? It can extract the ‘forced’ subpictures from some …

@Qwertz said: “Forced” is not a track-level flag in VOBSUB and PGS, it’s a subpicture-level flag. Forced subtitles are mixed with non-forced subtitles in the same track. SRT format does not support forcing at the individual subtitle level. You are 50% and 50% wrong :slight_smile: Bitmapped subt…

Yep, PMP has support for it. Add sub-forced-only=yes to the mpv.conf and you should be good to go.

@OttoKerner said: Have you ever tested Subtitle Edit ? It can extract the ‘forced’ subpictures from some types of sub files. Maybe you can find out which software libraries its author is using (if he hasn’t written this part himself). I can already extract the forced subpictures in much the sam…

Forced Subtitles for Realsies?

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