play english subtitles always

[blackmamba 3]

What I want - english subtitles to always be displayed - automatically - without me having to  stop the movie and select them.

 

On my server all my movie have one srt file, named move-name.srt - they are the english subtitles.

 

In the admin app I set under playback....
Audio language preference: English

Subtitle language preference:English

Subtitle mode: Always play subtitles

 

When I playback a movie no subtitles are displayed.

 

When I open the "T" menu I get 3 choices:

T none         codec:''       Default:no    Forced:no   External:no 

T English     codec:'srt'   Default:no    Forced:no   External:no 

T Unknown  codec:'srt'   Default:no   Forced:no   External:yes

 

T English has a big 'tick' mark over it.

 

When I select T Unknown subtitles appear.

 

So I assume the T Unknown is the actual english srt but it treats it as unknown because it hasn't go the ISO language cod in the filename

 

 

So is there a way to get this to work without me having to go back and reload all the metadata and rename every srt file for every movie and every tv episode to have 'en' in its name? 

 

 

Rob

[Luke 42077]

We have talked about having the ability to designate all unknown language subtitles as a certain language in order to help with this situation, but we haven't gotten to it yet. So until then, yes, it will be a manual process for you.

[sourcecody 0]

Not to necro a decade old thread, but, uh, well, seeing as it has been a decade, any chance this is still on the roadmap?

[Luke 42077]

22 hours ago, sourcecody said:

Not to necro a decade old thread, but, uh, well, seeing as it has been a decade, any chance this is still on the roadmap?

@sourcecody

Hi there, how are your files named and organized?