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[andrevi]

Hello,

Trying to play an mkv file with forced english subs (pgs).

Subs are not showing.

How to play with forced subs ?

Thanks.

[blgentry]

Right click while the movie is playing, select subtitles, and then the forced subtitle track.

If you aren't using a mouse, you can use the up arrow to cycle through a number of options, including subtitles, and then use the right and left arrows to select what you want.

Brian.

[Ashfall]

Hello,

Trying to play an mkv file with forced english subs (pgs).

Subs are not showing.

How to play with forced subs ?

Thanks.

Is the entire subtitle stream forced, or just individual subtitles within that stream?  If the whole stream is forced (as in a foreign language movie), make sure the forced flag and the default flag is set in the mkv options for that subtitle stream.  If it's just individual subtitles (as in foreign language only in some scenes), each individual subtitle should already have a forced flag.

Forced subs work automatically for me with these settings in Options\Video as long as the MKV has the subtitles correctly set to forced. 

Subtitle mode: Show subtitles only if selected subtitle language is different from audio language.
Default subtitle language: English
Default audio language: No default language

[andrevi]

Tried those settings but still no luck.

Can't figure this out.

[DJLegba]

I haven't been able to make Media Center play forced subs, so my solution is to show subs all the time. At first I thought that would be irritating but I got used to it quickly and now I quite like it.

[blgentry]

Forced subtitles are a really weird sticky topic.  Sometimes forced subs aren't there are all, even though the disc reports that they are present.  Sometimes they are "baked in" to the video.  Sometimes they are really there as separate subtitle tracks.

What do you see when you right click and select the subtitle menu while the movie is playing?

Brian.

[Ashfall]

The subtitles probably aren't marked as forced within the MKV.  What movie is it?  Is it listed on this page?:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1nAMVVnmk3vSaUiuFXcN7D0R69FHIP4tfIkTdThTkXEk/edit#gid=20

Get MediaInfo:
https://mediaarea.net/en/MediaInfo

After you have it, open the movie with MediaInfo and check the subtitles stream to see if Forced is set to YES.