[solved] Forced subtitles auto selection not always working (1 Viewer)

[Stéphane Lenclud]

I've setup default subtitles selection to forced subtitles.
That works well for my "Avatar" but fails for "John Carter" for some reason.
I've tried remuxing it multiple times to match the layout of "Avatar" but I still could not get it to work.
It selects the 'Auto' track but no subtitles come out.
The forced track is the first one in the file and it is marked with both default and forced flags.

Logs of playing 'John Carter' for a few seconds attached.

 

[Stéphane Lenclud]

My default language being set to French was causing the problem somehow.
I'm still not sure why is would work with one movie and not the other though.

 

[Sebastiii]

Maybe the logic failed somehow, we can also use the logic from lav splitter if needed

But it should works, most of or all the one i have seems to works on my side, maybe you can cut a sample ?

 

[Sebastiii]

Looking at your logs

[2016-08-20 12:47:03,827] [Log ] [MPMain ] [DEBUG] - VideoPlayer9: Rebuild LAV Delegate Info filter Name - TextPassThru19c0b114
[2016-08-20 12:47:03,832] [Log ] [MPMain ] [DEBUG] - VideoPlayer: FoundStreams: Type=Video; Name=V: h264 main L5.0, yuv420p, 3840x800 [default], Filter=LAV Splitter Source, Id=0, PDWGroup=0, LCID=0
[2016-08-20 12:47:03,834] [Log ] [MPMain ] [DEBUG] - VideoPlayer: FoundStreams: Type=Audio; Name=A: English [eng] (ac3, 48000 Hz, 5.1, 448 kb/s) [default], Filter=LAV Splitter Source, Id=1, PDWGroup=1, LCID=1033
[2016-08-20 12:47:03,836] [Log ] [MPMain ] [DEBUG] - VideoPlayer: FoundStreams: Type=Subtitle; Name=S: Forced [eng] (pgs) [default,forced], Filter=LAV Splitter Source, Id=2, PDWGroup=2, LCID=1033
[2016-08-20 12:47:03,838] [Log ] [MPMain ] [DEBUG] - VideoPlayer: FoundStreams: Type=Subtitle; Name=S: English [eng] (pgs), Filter=LAV Splitter Source, Id=3, PDWGroup=2, LCID=1033
[2016-08-20 12:47:03,840] [Log ] [MPMain ] [DEBUG] - VideoPlayer: FoundStreams: Type=Subtitle; Name=S: Forced Subtitles (auto), Filter=LAV Splitter Source, Id=4, PDWGroup=2, LCID=1033
[2016-08-20 12:47:03,842] [Log ] [MPMain ] [DEBUG] - VideoPlayer: FoundStreams: Type=Subtitle_hidden; Name=S: No subtitles, Filter=LAV Splitter Source, Id=5, PDWGroup=2, LCID=-1
[2016-08-20 12:47:03,845] [Log ] [MPMain ] [INFO ] - VideoPlayerVMR7: AudioLanguage CultureInfo fr

It seem the Forced track is in english language, so MP will not match it (S: Forced [eng] (pgs) [default,forced])
I think if your remux it by setting [Fre] it should works

So if you let the mkv like it was, to have forced sub appear, you need to set English in MP config.

In fact this setting : (Subtitle will only display forced subtitles ) works but it will match your language set in config, it will not load a forced from a different language