SRT Subtitles - Best Practice Question

[JohnnyM 40]

I acquired a BluRay version of a movie. I use "Subtitle Edit" to create a SRT subtitles of the forced portion of a subtitle. I have been doing this for over a year since using Emby's Roku client. I have been using the naming convention of MovieName.Eng.Forced.SRT. Last night I watched this movie for the first time and no subtitles appeared. Going back to the detail movie screen on the Roku I noticed that no subtitles were selected. When I selected it, the movie played correctly.

 

My question is should I be naming my SRT files like MovieName.Eng.Default.SRT rather than forced? There is no preferred treatment list in the Knowledge base.

 

JohnnyM

[Luke 42085]

Hi there, have you configured your emby user subtitle preferences?

@@cayars

[daedalus 434]

My question is should I be naming my SRT files like MovieName.Eng.Default.SRT rather than forced? There is no preferred treatment list in the Knowledge base.

 

JohnnyM

https://support.emby.media/support/solutions/articles/44001159160

[rbjtech 5284]

I acquired a BluRay version of a movie. I use "Subtitle Edit" to create a SRT subtitles of the forced portion of a subtitle. I have been doing this for over a year since using Emby's Roku client. I have been using the naming convention of MovieName.Eng.Forced.SRT. Last night I watched this movie for the first time and no subtitles appeared. Going back to the detail movie screen on the Roku I noticed that no subtitles were selected. When I selected it, the movie played correctly.

 

My question is should I be naming my SRT files like MovieName.Eng.Default.SRT rather than forced? There is no preferred treatment list in the Knowledge base.

 

JohnnyM

 

The CLIENT setings will have an impact on what is played - .en.forced.srt will play if you have 'Forced Only' in the client settings, if set to 'Default' then it will play the 'Default' subtitle as per the metadata (probably not what you want).

[JohnnyM 40]

@@Luke I doing it manually using Subtitle edit that works just great and gives me subs that exactly match my media. The subs are configured to "Only forced subtitles"

 

@@daedalus I read the support section but is there a difference for marking them forced or marking them default and if there is what is it.

[JohnnyM 40]

@@rbjtech I see that you used "en" for the language and I have been using "eng". Is en correct or a typo?

I do have forced only in the on the server I check the Roku later.

[rbjtech 5284]

@@rbjtech I see that you used "en" for the language and I have been using "eng". Is en correct or a typo?

I do have forced only in the on the server I check the Roku later.

 

I always use .en. but pretty sure .eng works just as well.

 

I've always done as you have - and set .en.forced.srt and they have always played fine - so it's possibly your client .. 

[JohnnyM 40]

@rbjtech I thought it could be the Roku client itself but the web client did the same thing. As soon as I set the sub in the client it seemed to stick. I can't be sure if I set it when I was testing it to be sure that they were synced correctly. I do know that I did not  test this one before actually watching it.

 

Thanks for the help.

[rbjtech 5284]

@rbjtech I thought it could be the Roku client itself but the web client did the same thing. As soon as I set the sub in the client it seemed to stick. I can't be sure if I set it when I was testing it to be sure that they were synced correctly. I do know that I did not  test this one before actually watching it.

 

Thanks for the help.

 

Yea be careful of this - that user playback preference (used in testing in your example) overwrites the default from then on.  So if you set it to say 'off', next time you played that title - it would ignore the 'forced' flag and not play the subtitles. 

[JohnnyM 40]

In my case it is a multi version movie and the DVD still there has the forced burnt into the video so subs were turned off.

 

Thanks again

[daedalus 434]

@@daedalus I read the support section but is there a difference for marking them forced or marking them default and if there is what is it.

default in general tells the player what should be played as default (if not overritten by any playersettings), while forced marks the track for the player as "with forced subtitle content"

there can only be one default, but multiple forced ones