
Some of them I have not watched for a couple of years (maybe a decade now).īut last week i tried two of the three DVD movies I listed above and noticed no forced subtitles. I stopped buying DVDs when the BD format came out, but I still have a lot of DVDs. At least I have not come across any BDs yet that have non working forced subtitles (or the "mkv ripping software" handles BDs better than it does for the DVDs). I don't think I have this problem with Blu-rays. In next post I will describe my ripping process.

must choose this track specifically to be displayed) To make things more complex - sometimes these forced only track have no internal markings to indicate that lines are forced (so what worked to display forced marked lines won’t work here. If there is separate English track for forced subs only. To make matters worst, SDH never contains forced flags and it is often the first English sub listed.Įnglish tracks at the end of the list are usually commentary subs. If there are 2 English subtitles at the beginning - one of them will be normal the other one will be SDH (first one is often SDH). But as almost everything in life it is not easy.īD often contains lots of English subtitle tracks. Now if above scenario was the only scenario. Text based subtitle like SRT do not support this feature. then even forced subtitles won’t be displayed)įlagging lines as forced inside subtitles is feature of BD and DVD subtitles. (Incidentally to completely disable any subtitles you must choose “null” for subtitle selection. In this scenario MC will go through first English subtitle stream in mkv and pick only lines marked as forced. That subtitle stream is first English subtitle in mkv That subtitle stream is marked in mkv as Englishģ. Audio you playing is marked in mkv as EnglishĢ. For this type of scenario, to display only potion that is forced - following must be true:ġ. Obviously if you select that subtitle stream, MC will display all subtitles (forced and non forced).
HOW TO EXTRACT SUBTITLES FROM MKV ANIME MOVIE
For movie I use MakeMKV (sometimes MKVToolnix and DVDFab).īD subtitles can contain internal flags inside them to indicate which line is a forced one. but it should be applicable to DVD tooįirst of - I don’t use MC to rip disk. So what I will be saying next is for ripping BD. I haven’t rip DVD in looooong time (rip my DVD collection long time ago and since BD came out, never bought DVD again) I know most of you are way past ripping (old format) DVDs, but I have hundreds of DVD discs (with only a couple with this problem) and I would like to get those fixed.ĭoes anyone have a step-by-step procedure to do this?

I've been Googling this (looking at the MakeMKV forums, but still don't have a clear procedure). So what do I need to do? I can re-rip those movies if needed. In the attached photo, all of the subtitle choices show dialog for everything (just in different colors or screen positions) There is no subtitle track that does that in any of my subtitle choices. I only want to see the specific "foreign/alien" dialog. In the JRiver subtitle selections, every subtitle track choice I have displays the entire movie with subtitles. Such as the movie Avatar, Dances with Wolves, 2012. To be clear, when I say "forced subtitles" I mean the part of the movie that is in a foreign or alien language that must be displayed to understand what is going on.

I noticed that some (maybe all) that should be showing forced subtitles are not. I have a lot of older DVD movies that I ripped to MKV.
