Hi all - A couple questions about subtitles and forced subtitles please:
1- I have a MKV with HDMV PGS subtitles, one of which is forced. How can I tell Kodi to play subtitles from the MKV itself? When I turn subtitles on Kodi appears to be getting these from online such as opensubtitle? Is there a way to enable subtitles so that they come from the MKV steam itself (from the PGS) instead, and cycle through the options? If so, can you please explain how?
2- I don't really mind using opensubtitles instead of PGS, but here is the issue I need to solve....... I need to have a forced subtitles only playback option. Is there a way to do this? For instance I watched a title that had several scenes with foreign language. With subtitles turned off (from the playback OSD for example) I had no subtitles at all, during the English scenes or foreign scenes. When I turned subtitles on, then I had subtitles all the time, both during English and foreign scenes. What I want of course is no subtitles during the English scenes, and only subtitles during the foreign language scenes. I would think that the subtitle services may have an option for that, but did not see any such setting in Kodi. By the way I am using Kodi v18 latest nightly with whatever built-in subtitle options are provided in the vanilla installation - I have not downloaded any subtitle services or such.
3- When using subtitles for foreign language scenes is there a way to get the translation only without the descriptions of sounds? For instance I want to know what they are saying, but do not want to see things like "(birds chirping)" and "(music playing)".
Thank you kindly for your support.
1- I have a MKV with HDMV PGS subtitles, one of which is forced. How can I tell Kodi to play subtitles from the MKV itself? When I turn subtitles on Kodi appears to be getting these from online such as opensubtitle? Is there a way to enable subtitles so that they come from the MKV steam itself (from the PGS) instead, and cycle through the options? If so, can you please explain how?
2- I don't really mind using opensubtitles instead of PGS, but here is the issue I need to solve....... I need to have a forced subtitles only playback option. Is there a way to do this? For instance I watched a title that had several scenes with foreign language. With subtitles turned off (from the playback OSD for example) I had no subtitles at all, during the English scenes or foreign scenes. When I turned subtitles on, then I had subtitles all the time, both during English and foreign scenes. What I want of course is no subtitles during the English scenes, and only subtitles during the foreign language scenes. I would think that the subtitle services may have an option for that, but did not see any such setting in Kodi. By the way I am using Kodi v18 latest nightly with whatever built-in subtitle options are provided in the vanilla installation - I have not downloaded any subtitle services or such.
3- When using subtitles for foreign language scenes is there a way to get the translation only without the descriptions of sounds? For instance I want to know what they are saying, but do not want to see things like "(birds chirping)" and "(music playing)".
Thank you kindly for your support.