Yea, but let’s get real… and if we’re wishing for something, let’s wish for something that might actually happen… like a cure for world hunger, or global peace, or some other nonsense… Handbrake is a lot like Plex. They pretty much do what they want, when they want. I mean they’re 7 Versions into the 1.0 series and just now got it so you can encode a DVD properly:
https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/comment/1605970/#Comment_1605970
(better start there - it’s a work in progress, but appears to be functional)
The Plex Dance® is a work-around for a problem old enough to draw Social Security and Plex stopped trying to fix that a LONG time ago. I think this one is going to be another one to add to that list:
https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/279520/unable-to-delete-file-please-check-your-permissions
(July - and the symphony of crickets is deafening)
Anyway…
Here’s a Forced English Subtitle Track, properly tagged with MKVToolNix - I removed a bunch of other tracks I didn’t need:
Now, when it goes into Handbrake I add a track, then select the only sub track there (that way I know it’s the right one). Since I’m going to need it every time I watch it (English is the ONLY language I speak - and there’s no danger of me learning a new one any time soon) I Burn those subs in so I don’t have to fiddle with them any further. If you want to fiddle with them (taking the chance, and creating an opportunity for Plex’s helpful transcoder to kick in and save the day) you could create a Default, or a Forced Sub track - and hope it turns out to be a UTF-8 track that may even Direct Play on something…:
Yea - I burn. It works for me.
As for Audio… I’ve already configured my Default Audio for this Profile to be AC3 5.1 (you do NOT want to use AAC for multi-channel and you do NOT want to use that Dolby Pro Logic Crap!). I don’t need to fiddle with the audio just yet - that comes right before it goes to the library for the Normalization of the levels with Xmedia Recode -so I just pass the AC3 5.1 through:
That’s basically all there is to it.
