Subtitles

General Discussions
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ok, so I have a movie that is in English, but has some sequences in another language.
I prefer to watch movies in English with the English subtitles turned on.

I have 2 options:

  1. English Forced (SRT): this will enable English subtitles for everything that is spoken in the other language, but won’t show subs for everything spoken in English
  2. English (SRT): this will enable English subtitles for everything that is spoken in English, but won’t show subs for everything spoken in the other language

What do I need to set to have English subs for everything that is spoken in English as well as the other language ?

2

Use Subtitle Edit to edit the .srt subtitles to what ever you want.

3

Then I’d say that the subtitles you have are wrong.
If you don’t have a source for proper English subtitles, you can try and merge the two subtitles, thus generating a complete version of the English subs.
I concur with the above recommendation of Subtitle Edit

4

Thank you for the reply.

Why are the subtitles wrong ?
The subtitles are complete and Plex will show either one or the other depending on the setting.

So if Plex would have a setting to enable both (English SRT and English Forced SRT) then it would work as expected.

Can you please explain how this is not Plex’ fault ?

5

No, they are not. For an English speaker, they are supposed to also contain the lines from the “forced” subs. If they don’t, they can only be considered “incomplete” or “wrong”.
I can only assume that they were ripped from a disc. Particularly with VOBSUB format, it is quite common to have all subtitles in a common container, with the “forced” lines only carrying an additional flag on them.
Someone made a mistake while ripping them. Instead of storing all subtitles, the “forced” ones were removed, thus creating an incomplete file.

6

Understood, thanks again for the clarification

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