Forced subtitle is not first choice

[Iluvatar77]

Hi!

I’m running a Plex server and watch everything on my Apple TV using the Infuse app.

My files are stored like this:

• Folder contains:

  • Movie A.mkv

  • Movie A.swe.forced.srt

The movie file itself also contains multiple internal subtitle tracks, including a full Swedish subtitle track.

The issue:

When I play the movie in Infuse, it always selects the internal Swedish subtitle instead of the external Swedish forced (.srt) subtitle, even though I have subtitle playback set to “Forced” in Infuse.

Because of this, I have to manually change the subtitle every time I start a new movie or TV episode, which gets pretty annoying.

My question:

Is there any way to make Infuse always prefer the external forced SRT subtitle over an internal subtitle when:

• both are the same language, and

• only the external one is marked as forced?

Or is this just a limitation, meaning I have to manually switch subtitles every time?

Looking forward to hearing your thoughts. Thanks!

[backfil]

I’m guessing this has to do with subtitle priorities. I don’t think there is a way to specify that right now with local vs embedded. It looks like there have been other requests for it:

Give subtitles within the video file more priority over downloaded ones

I see that more files have integrated subtitles. They are obviously better synced than the ones downloaded by Infuse. Please have an option that included subs have higher priority or will selected by default.

Request new preference to define subtitle priority

I think it would be awesome if there was a preference to allow someone to state that they prefer embedded subtitles (those within a container say MKV) over external subtitles that may be available. All my items contain subtitles in their respective container but I also extract text-based subtitles in cases where transcoding needs to happen. For my local viewing I never need to transcode so I 100% prefer subtitles that are within the container.

If you don’t want to manually switch the subtitles every time, you could remux your videos to add/remove/reorder the embedded subtitles that you want. This would be a time consuming task but that way you get your subtitles exactly as you want them. You can use a free tool like MKVToolNix to remux.