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Finding the right subtitles for forced tracks (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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What advice do people have for finding subtitles with things that require forced subtitles? Things like Lord of the Rings (where they talk in Elvish) or the Star Wars movies (different alien dialects) often require subtitles. Sometimes movies are entirely unwatchable without them. And for some reason, they aren't baked directly into the video file. This means that opening them in Plex or VLC by default does not display what's being said. This has led to many frustrating situations where I'll be watching something with a group of people and somebody starts speaking in another language. We're all left wondering "Are we supposed to understand what is going on here? Or is it supposed to be a mystery?" And then after 45-60 seconds of them talking in another language, it becomes pretty clear that there are supposed to be subtitles here, and they're just not there.

How are you supposed to know when there should be forced subtitles and when there shouldn't be? How are you supposed to find which one is the correct one where there are often so many options in Plex and VLC that say "English?" Most of them just play subtitles throughout the entire movie, which is irritating for most people we watch movies with.

I've tried messing around with open subtitles, but even that has been heavily hit or miss, and the last few days as I've tried it, the pages won't even load beyond the search.

Any advice?

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I use Bazarr to find subtitles. You can set it to only find Forced or to find the regular track for your language of choice and Forced, and it's trivial to set it to include the file itself in the search for subtitles so it'll only download subtitles for videos that are missing the subtitles.

It's also great because it can automatically sync the downloaded subtitles to the actual video's audio, or the existing subtitle track if one exists (like if you just have the full subtitle track and want to sync the Forced track)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Unfortunately, the installation instructions for Fedora Linux (my operating system) don't work at the moment. Any other alternatives to this?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I use it as a docker container. Should be the same for every Linux distro once you have docker installed