On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 11:54 AM, Mark Greenwood <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:fatgerman@gmail.com" target="_blank">fatgerman@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px"><span style="font-size:8pt;color:rgb(34,34,34)">OK, I used the mkvmerge gui (mkvtoolnix-gui packge on ubuntu). What I did was : Add an avi file and an srt file. Select the subtitle track in the 'Tracks, chapters, and tags' box and set the language to English and set 'Forced track flag' to 'yes'. I left all the other settings at the default values. Then click 'Start Muxing'. It'll create an mkv file. That's all I did. You can use mediainfo or mkvinfo to verify that that 'Forced' flag is set for the subtitles track. I'm using mkvmerge GUI version 5.1.0.</span><br>
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Thanks for the instructions, I was able to easily reproduce the situation. The problem with the MythTV code is that all the forced subtitle track logic is limited to DVD-style AV subtitle tracks. It will take some reorganization to apply that to embedded text subtitle tracks as well, but I'll look into it.</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Jim</div>