Subtitles during a scene with foreign language

[quackpipe 11]

Some films have scenes with voice or text consisting of a different language than the rest of the film. In a theatre (or on bluray) this moment in a film would introduce subtitles to help the audience. 

How does emby handle these situations? I'm watching a film right now that is in english but multiple scenes have german spoken language.

Am i supposed to keep the english subtitles on the entire time or can emby recognize those moments?

[quackpipe 11]

Update, I see that i have an SRT file that is only for the foreign language moments.  What could/should I name that?

[crusher11 1101]

[MovieFileName].en.forced.srt

They're called "forced" subtitles. Usually on a Blu-ray they're part of the normal English subtitle track, but individual subtitles within that track can be flagged as "forced" and will display even if subtitles are turned off. When ripping a disc with MakeMKV, this will come out as a second, separate, subtitle track, which then needs to be flagged as "forced" in MKVToolnix.

I'm not sure how Emby handles whether to display these or not on various subtitle settings, but I've got mine set to "Smart" and it works perfectly. I get English subs for foreign works, English forced subs are displayed, and for English works without a forced subs track there are no subtitles displayed.

[quackpipe 11]

On 2/14/2021 at 3:28 AM, crusher11 said:

[MovieFileName].en.forced.srt

They're called "forced" subtitles. Usually on a Blu-ray they're part of the normal English subtitle track, but individual subtitles within that track can be flagged as "forced" and will display even if subtitles are turned off. When ripping a disc with MakeMKV, this will come out as a second, separate, subtitle track, which then needs to be flagged as "forced" in MKVToolnix.

I'm not sure how Emby handles whether to display these or not on various subtitle settings, but I've got mine set to "Smart" and it works perfectly. I get English subs for foreign works, English forced subs are displayed, and for English works without a forced subs track there are no subtitles displayed.

I learned something new today and fixed my problem. Thank you.

I do still have issues with the normal subs and I've read about them on multiple threads but my success for emby picking them up is inconsistent. Remind me, [video filename].eng.srt or  [video filename].fre.srt  right?

[crusher11 1101]

Yes. en and eng both work, you can use either the two-letter language code or the three-letter language code, Emby won't care either way.

 

[rbjtech 5284]

Probably easier to point you to the wiki article on subtitles for emby ... 

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