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<blockquote data-quote="RoChess" data-source="post: 1276891" data-attributes="member: 18896">How does naming of forced external subtitles work then though to pass forward the flag?Lot of shows have three English subtitle tracks now.<ul>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">English</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">English SDH (for hearing impaired with audio queues translated, such as &quot;[slams door]&quot;)</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">English Forced (for non-English dialog)</li>
</ul>When I bring up the subtitle dialog I often do not know which subtitle option is currently active, and often have to reconfirm &quot;Forced&quot; or put on &quot;English&quot; just to be sure. Lot of times have to just wait till I run into non-English dialog, and go &quot;shit, what did they say?&quot; then rewind, activate subtitles, hope I was quick enough, and then watch it with subs.LAV should support this for proper subtitle selection per their guides as &quot;eng:f, * :eng&quot; which has format &lt;audio-language&gt;:&lt;subtitle-language&gt; in order, so it does Forced subtitles for English audio language, and then English subtitles for any ( * ) other audio language. For a French person that would become &quot;fre:f, * :fre&quot; or &quot;ger:f, * :ger&quot; for a German person. No clue if MediaPortal can like configure that for the end-user, or at least provide instructions.Just that most users won't know how to adjust those settings often, and you would think this can all be done from within MediaPortal instead, because one can manually control it after the fact with the corresponding MediaPortal controls.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="RoChess, post: 1276891, member: 18896"] How does naming of forced external subtitles work then though to pass forward the flag? Lot of shows have three English subtitle tracks now. [LIST] [*]English [*]English SDH (for hearing impaired with audio queues translated, such as "[slams door]") [*]English Forced (for non-English dialog) [/LIST] When I bring up the subtitle dialog I often do not know which subtitle option is currently active, and often have to reconfirm "Forced" or put on "English" just to be sure. Lot of times have to just wait till I run into non-English dialog, and go "shit, what did they say?" then rewind, activate subtitles, hope I was quick enough, and then watch it with subs. LAV should support this for proper subtitle selection per their guides as "eng:f, [I]* :eng" which has format <audio-language>:<subtitle-language> in order, so it does Forced subtitles for English audio language, and then English subtitles for any ( * [/I]) other audio language. For a French person that would become "fre:f, * [I]:fre" or "ger:f, * [/I]:ger" for a German person. No clue if MediaPortal can like configure that for the end-user, or at least provide instructions. Just that most users won't know how to adjust those settings often, and you would think this can all be done from within MediaPortal instead, because one can manually control it after the fact with the corresponding MediaPortal controls. [/QUOTE]

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