[mythtv-users] Internal Player DVD Subtitles

[John Baab]

On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 10:47 AM, Travis Tabbal <travis at tabbal.net> wrote:
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> On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 7:37 AM, John Baab <john.baab at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> This is one issue I noticed recently with the internal player.  While
>> watching Taken and Angels & Demons, there are parts of the film where
>> people talk in foreign languages and subtitles should appear.  By
>> default they do not, togglign on the subtitles gave me success with
>> one of the films but not with the other, it also left me watching the
>> entire film with subtitles.  Has anyone ever experienced this?
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> There is usually a subtitle track with just the foreign language parts. Are
> you watching from DVD or a ripped copy? It's possible you didn't have the
> correct subtitle track included in your rip. It would be nice if there were
> a way to flag those tracks as default on the way a normal DVD player seems
> to.
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These were played as ISOs, so it should be the same as watching the
DVD.  There were no subtitles by default and the only English choice
gave me subtitles all the time in Angels & Demons, and in Taken it
gave me subtitles everywhere except where I wanted them.