* Sidecar subtitles will have a higher priority if the name of the sidecar exactly matches the name of the file. There are a few additions that should be made to that: The naming rules are covered fairly well in the Subtitle article on the wiki.

MC supports sidecar subtitles quite well. I don't understand why you don't want to do this, but it is fine. They're just usually in an unlabelled 'extra' english subtitle track (or baked into the image). It's definitely not the case that 'most' DVDs don't have forced subs somewhere I'd say 70 to 80% of the DVD discs with foreign dialog I've interacted with have some kind of retrievable forced subtitle track on the disc. Then you can easily figure out which one is the forced sub track once you've got the rip. That's why glynor's advice about taking all the subtitle tracks is a good one. If a hardware player can't do it, it means the disk was authored without forced subs at all (for whatever reason).Īlso many DVDs have separate subtitle tracks for forced subs, they're just not flagged in a way that makes them show up in makemkv labelled 'forced.' If you see multiple (more than one or two) English subtitle tracks, there's a good chance that one of those is where the forced subs are. Ldoodle, didn't you mention in your other thread that the Breaking Bad disc doesn't display forced subs in a hardware player? If I'm remembering that right, then there are no forced subs on the disc to be had, and you'll need to acquire them yourself. Sadly, I'm unaware of any other method to do this for us 'automatically'. however, this method requires user input at the time of ripping to get the forced stream marked properly. If you do this, it will also get reliably picked up by MC, and you'll magically get only forced subtitles by default during playback. In this case, while ripping the disc (using makeMKV is my preferred method), or even while remuxing the video using mkvToolNix, you can set the tag for these subtitles as 'Forced' in the file itself. In this case, you need to manually select this forced track to get them. The other method is an actual, separate subtitle stream which only shows the forced subtitles. This method is reliably picked up by MC (via built-in LAV filters), and you just magically get forced subtitles without any input/work on your part. The problem lies in the fact that some releases mark forced sections within the 'regular' subtitle stream (meaning only parts of the subtiles are marked as forced, and the rest are not marked).

Mkvtoolnix burn in subtitles