# Handbreak and Subtitle Question
**URL:** https://forums.plex.tv/t/handbreak-and-subtitle-question/190003
**Category:** General Discussions
**Created:** [April 26, 2017, 4:12am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/handbreak-and-subtitle-question/190003 "2017-04-26T04:12:55Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@sandking](https://forums.plex.tv/u/sandking)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2017, 4:12am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/handbreak-and-subtitle-question/190003/1 "2017-04-26T04:12:55Z")
Good evening. I’ve been having an issue with ripping my bluray’s lately. I want to add subtitles, but don’t want them burned into the movie. I want to be able to choose if they are on with Plex. I rip the discs with Make MKV and make sure that “forced only” is unchecked.
If I watch the MKV through VLC I can turn subtitles on and off (as a test to make sure I ripped it correctly). Next I take it into Handbreak to save and add all the Subtitle tracks that are on the MKV, and make sure all the boxes are NOT CHECKED. Needless to say when I play the movie the subtitles are burned in and when you look at the movie in Plex it says no subtitles. I even checked once again by playing the new movie with VLC and now the option for removing subtitles doesn’t work here either.
I think I narrowed it down to I have an incorrect setting in my Handbreak process that is causing this. Can anyone please help???
Thanks in advance
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### Author:  [@JuiceWSA](https://forums.plex.tv/u/JuiceWSA)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2017, 8:00pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/handbreak-and-subtitle-question/190003/2 "2017-04-26T20:00:05Z")
I just tried this with Handbrake 0.10.5 (the only version I’ll use until they fix custom anamorphic settings for DVDs).
I had an MKV file with an embedded UTF-8 sub track so I put it through Handbrake, making the very same settings you did - adding a sub track, but checking nothing. I made two test files - an MKV and an MP4 and loaded them into a movies library for a look-see.
The MP4 file shows a sub track that can be enabled. English-MOV\_TXT
The MKV file shows a sub track that can be enabled. English - ASS
Played both files, enabled subs, they play fine, but both transcode.
Stripped those same subs out of the original file with MKVToolNix (MKVExtract - in the MKVToolNIx folder), added as sidecar srt subs - both can be selected and both Direct Play.
The thing that could be different is the format of the subs you have ripped from MakeMKV. I do the same thing you’re doing, but I only need a forced track so when I’m running it through handbrake before adding it to the library I burn in those forced PGS subs so I don’t have to worry about transcoding later.
Right now, it’s a bit of a mystery, but that’s all I got.
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### Author:  [@sandking](https://forums.plex.tv/u/sandking)
#### Post date: [April 29, 2017, 1:56am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/handbreak-and-subtitle-question/190003/3 "2017-04-29T01:56:53Z")
Thanks for the help
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### Author:  [@JuiceWSA](https://forums.plex.tv/u/JuiceWSA)
#### Post date: [April 29, 2017, 1:10pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/handbreak-and-subtitle-question/190003/4 "2017-04-29T13:10:16Z")
Have you resolved your issue?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2020, 11:10pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/handbreak-and-subtitle-question/190003/5 "2020-01-07T23:10:43Z")