MKV Tag help - Forced Subtitles only.

**DejaVu** · 7th June 2010

I've been editing videos for years and had AVI's nailed using VirtualDub.

But since using MKV's, I'm looking to learn more about MKV's, MKVMerge & MKVToolNix to help sort out my library exactly how I want it.

For Example, I have a film that is MKV - it contains the HD Video and DTS Audio (usually 2 or 3 audio tracks 'Commentary' and 'German').

I know how to strip the Commentary track and the German etc, what I cant get my head around is Subtitles. Let's say this particular film only has English subtitles throughout the whole film. I can strip that out.

But what can I replace it with to ensure the Forced Subs (the ones for foreign parts of the film) remain?

I want to do this for 2 reasons.

1) To streamline my collection and make the filesizes smaller.
2) To try to stop the problems with missed subtitled part of films where the foreign parts are.

**theodotcom** · 7th June 2010

your sub files will have english, which will be the entire film, and then there are also subtitle tracks that are just the foreign parts of films.

If you cant find the forced subtitle track or it isnt perfect to the audio you can always change it yourself a bit, I'm pretty sure the subtitle files are just the time code start and end and the text you want to display. They are really easy to create (they are for normal dvd's anyway).

**DejaVu** · 7th June 2010

Are they easy to find in the entire English Subtitle track? Forced Subs?

**prezzy** · 7th June 2010

I get almost all my subs from subscene usually have the full English as well as just foreign parts for most releases.

**DejaVu** · 7th June 2010

Originally Posted by prezzy

I get almost all my subs from subscene usually have the full English as well as just foreign parts for most releases.

Just looking through their collection ATM. I reckon 2 Fast 2 Furious is a bad example. It seems it doesnt have any Non-English parts!

I'll try to do one with 2012 and see how I get on.

**theodotcom** · 7th June 2010

2012 definately has non english near the beginning and towards the end, I'm sure 2 fast 2 furious is all english. If you can find them then great, however to make them yourself isnt difficult its just time consuming.