DVD forced subtitles not appearing when using internal player (1 Viewer)

[liquidskin76]

Hi,

Using MediaPortal v1.0.2, with the MPC-HC subtitle engine integrated.

I'm finding that forced subtitles on DVD's are not showing when played through the internal player (using either My Videos or Moving Pictures). By forced subtitles i mean if the film is english, but someone speaks a different language, english subs appears.

I know the forced subs are usually a normal small subtitle stream. The rips include this subtitle stream and the forced subs appear ok if played through PowerDVD/Totalmedia Theatre.

Any ideas?

Cheers

 

[pilehave]

What kind of rip is it?

 

[liquidskin76]

It's a DVD movie only ripped to harddrive using DVDFab.

 

[hoborg]

DVD subtitles have nothing to do with MPC-HC subtitles engine.

To enable/disable subtitles you should enable them thrue DVD menu (like on standard DVD player).

 

[liquidskin76]

I don't mean oridinary subs that you select through the DVD menu! I mean the type of subs that appear automatically when a foreign language is briefly spoken in an english film.

Like in 'Lord of the Ring - Felowship of the Ring' when they speak elvish. Forced subs appear automatically translating the language. You don't have to enable any subtitles for these to appear.

The DVD backups (DVD format, movie only, including the relevant subtitle stream) are good as the forced subs appear ok in other players (i.e. TotalMedia Theatre).

Thanks!

 

[Jeditrav]

This has always been a problem, would be great to get it fixed! All my DVD's are ripped to 'movie only' dvd format with the subtitles, but in order to see what Greedo or Jabba the Hut says I have to manually select the subtitle stream that should be 'forced' (and is forced in all other media players I've tried).
I've tried with PowerDVD7,8,9 and nVidia Purevideo codecs - the 'forced' subtitles will only display if I manually go and select that subtitle track.

 

[liquidskin76]

Anyone! Any ideas?

I can't believe MediaPortal's internal player can't detect and display this type of subtitle... it's a basic feature of DVD!

 

[Dwizzo]

I have the same issue... Forced subs don't play automatically in .mkv files... Any update on getting this working?