While newer systems can play MKVs, I got into the habit of encoding all of my videos into MP4s since they can be played on virtually any format or system. It's when I have an English movie with occasional foreign dialogue that I run into problems.
The MKV file clearly has this forced subtitle track already present, since the English subtitles appear during the foreign dialogue, but when I click on "Foreign Audio Search", "Forced" and "Burned In" under the "Subtitles" tab, they do not appear in the Handbrake-generated MP4.
If I'm able to find an "srt" subtitle file and add that, Handbrake will not allow me to check "Forced" under Subtitles and the problem still remains.
Has anyone come across a viable solution for this?
I'm running Handbrake 1.1.0 on OSX High Sierra 10.13.4
Forced Subtitles
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Re: Forced Subtitles
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Re: Forced Subtitles
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[08:17:53] macgui: Handbrake Version: 1.1.0 (2018040700)
[08:17:53] hb_init: starting libhb thread
[08:17:53] hb_init: starting libhb thread
[08:18:00] macgui: trying to open a folder or file
[08:18:00] macgui: ScanCore scanning titles with a duration of 10 seconds or more
[08:18:00] CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-5650U CPU @ 2.20GHz
[08:18:00] - Intel microarchitecture Broadwell
[08:18:00] - logical processor count: 4
[08:18:00] hb_scan: path=/Users/Documents/Vuze Downloads/Bombshell.The.Hedy.Lamarr.Story.2017.1080p.BluRay.x264-CiNEFiLE[rarbg]/Bombshell - The Hedy Lamarr Story.mkv, title_index=0
udfread ERROR: ECMA 167 Volume Recognition failed
disc.c:323: failed opening UDF image /Users/Documents/Vuze Downloads/Bombshell.The.Hedy.Lamarr.Story.2017.1080p.BluRay.x264-CiNEFiLE[rarbg]/Bombshell - The Hedy Lamarr Story.mkv
disc.c:424: error opening file BDMV/index.bdmv
disc.c:424: error opening file BDMV/BACKUP/index.bdmv
[08:18:00] bd: not a bd - trying as a stream/file instead
libdvdnav: Using dvdnav version 5.0.3
libdvdread: Encrypted DVD support unavailable.
libdvdread:DVDOpenFileUDF:UDFFindFile /VIDEO_TS/VIDEO_TS.IFO failed
libdvdread:DVDOpenFileUDF:UDFFindFile /VIDEO_TS/VIDEO_TS.BUP failed
libdvdread: Can't open file VIDEO_TS.IFO.
libdvdnav: vm: failed to read VIDEO_TS.IFO
[08:18:00] dvd: not a dvd - trying as a stream/file instead
Input #0, matroska,webm, from '/Users/Documents/Vuze Downloads/Bombshell.The.Hedy.Lamarr.Story.2017.1080p.BluRay.x264-CiNEFiLE[rarbg]/Bombshell - The Hedy Lamarr Story.mkv':
Duration: 01:28:55.19, start: 0.000000, bitrate: N/A
Chapter #0:0: start 0.000000, end 568.276000
Metadata:
title : 00:00:00.000
Chapter #0:1: start 568.276000, end 1036.494000
Metadata:
title : 00:09:28.276
Chapter #0:2: start 1036.494000, end 1596.637000
Metadata:
title : 00:17:16.494
Chapter #0:3: start 1596.637000, end 2203.201000
Metadata:
title : 00:26:36.637
Chapter #0:4: start 2203.201000, end 2819.692000
Metadata:
title : 00:36:43.201
Chapter #0:5: start 2819.692000, end 3446.276000
Metadata:
title : 00:46:59.692
Chapter #0:6: start 3446.276000, end 3812.726000
Metadata:
title : 00:57:26.276
Chapter #0:7: start 3812.726000, end 4426.339000
Metadata:
title : 01:03:32.726
Chapter #0:8: start 4426.339000, end 4876.330000
Metadata:
title : 01:13:46.339
Chapter #0:9: start 4876.330000, end 5335.190000
Metadata:
title : 01:21:16.330
Stream #0:0(eng): Video: h264 (High)
yuv420p, 1920x1080 [PAR 1:1 DAR 16:9], PAR 1:1 DAR 16:9
23.98 fps, 1k tbn (default)
Metadata:
BPS : 9046089
BPS-eng : 9046089
DURATION : 01:28:55.130000000
DURATION-eng : 01:28:55.130000000
NUMBER_OF_FRAMES: 127915
NUMBER_OF_FRAMES-eng: 127915
NUMBER_OF_BYTES : 6032757767
NUMBER_OF_BYTES-eng: 6032757767
_STATISTICS_WRITING_APP: mkvmerge v8.6.1 ('Flying') 64bit
_STATISTICS_WRITING_APP-eng: mkvmerge v8.6.1 ('Flying') 64bit
_STATISTICS_WRITING_DATE_UTC: 2018-04-25 12:30:25
_STATISTICS_WRITING_DATE_UTC-eng: 2018-04-25 12:30:25
_STATISTICS_TAGS: BPS DURATION NUMBER_OF_FRAMES NUMBER_OF_BYTES
_STATISTICS_TAGS-eng: BPS DURATION NUMBER_OF_FRAMES NUMBER_OF_BYTES
Stream #0:1(eng): Audio: dts (DTS)
48000 Hz, 5.1, fltp, 1536 kb/s (default)
Metadata:
BPS : 1508999
BPS-eng : 1508999
DURATION : 01:28:55.190000000
DURATION-eng : 01:28:55.190000000
NUMBER_OF_FRAMES: 500174
NUMBER_OF_FRAMES-eng: 500174
NUMBER_OF_BYTES : 1006350088
NUMBER_OF_BYTES-eng: 1006350088
_STATISTICS_WRITING_APP: mkvmerge v8.6.1 ('Flying') 64bit
_STATISTICS_WRITING_APP-eng: mkvmerge v8.6.1 ('Flying') 64bit
_STATISTICS_WRITING_DATE_UTC: 2018-04-25 12:30:25
_STATISTICS_WRITING_DATE_UTC-eng: 2018-04-25 12:30:25
_STATISTICS_TAGS: BPS DURATION NUMBER_OF_FRAMES NUMBER_OF_BYTES
_STATISTICS_TAGS-eng: BPS DURATION NUMBER_OF_FRAMES NUMBER_OF_BYTES
[08:18:00] scan: decoding previews for title 1
[08:18:00] scan: audio 0x1: dca, rate=48000Hz, bitrate=1536000 English (DTS) (5.1 ch)
[08:18:00] scan: 10 previews, 1920x1080, 23.976 fps, autocrop = 0/0/0/0, aspect 16:9, PAR 1:1
[08:18:00] libhb: scan thread found 1 valid title(s)
[08:18:00] macgui: ScanCore scan done
Last edited by Anonymous on Fri May 25, 2018 12:28 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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Re: Forced Subtitles
Forced subtitles is a vague concept in the minds of people who author disks and SRT files. While you can tag subtitles within a track as being "forced", few do it; the usual method is to provide a separate track that contains "just" the forced subtitles. SRT files and ASS tracks usually assume you're dealing with an original, non-dubbed title, and will need all the subtitles.
Foreign Audio Search looks for the flags, OR a subtitle track that has only 10% or fewer subtitles compared to others, if there are no forced flags. If you're not using FAS, the "Forced only" selection ONLY looks for the flag... and I have not seen many titles (other than Avatar) that actually use the forced flag.
It gets even more random when dealing with downloaded video like your example - you have no idea what the person who uploaded the file did to it before you got it. But, again, separate subtitle tracks are going to assume non-dubbed video, and include everything.
Foreign Audio Search looks for the flags, OR a subtitle track that has only 10% or fewer subtitles compared to others, if there are no forced flags. If you're not using FAS, the "Forced only" selection ONLY looks for the flag... and I have not seen many titles (other than Avatar) that actually use the forced flag.
It gets even more random when dealing with downloaded video like your example - you have no idea what the person who uploaded the file did to it before you got it. But, again, separate subtitle tracks are going to assume non-dubbed video, and include everything.
Re: Forced Subtitles
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