[Feature] Mkv subtitle detection

[verysofttoiletpaper]

Would be very interesting to be able to detect when a mkv container already has subtitles and not download extra subtitles which many times are out of sync and get priority in many players.

[rednoah]

That's pretty easy. Check how AMC forces anime-mode by checking Japnese audio + ASS subtitles.

[verysofttoiletpaper]

Couldn't the AMC script check if the subtitles already exist in the mkv before downloading more, just like it checks for existing subtitles files?

[verysofttoiletpaper]

Could you add this improvement to the AMC script?

Thank you

[verysofttoiletpaper]

Has this been forgotten or is there a reason not to add this feature?

[rednoah]

I guess you could easily add this logic to your own custom subtitle script.

Just check with getMediaInfo(...) and see if you get subtitles tracks and if yes just don't pass them along to getMissingSubtitles(...)

[Ithiel]

oohh... kewlies..

Is there a way to feed that into a cmd line for use in the context menu?

i.e. How would I edit something like this to check getMediaInfo() if the mkv already includes subtitles for a (or multiple) specific language(s)?

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cmd /c filebot -get-subtitles \"%1\" -non-strict --lang en --log-file context.log

[rednoah]

Sorry, that one will need some scripting, either in groovy or cmdline, 1. select all files, 2. filter out files mkv files with embedded subtitles, 3. run -get-subtitles on the remaining files.

Like so:
https://github.com/filebot/scripts/blob ... all.groovy

[Ithiel]

wow.. um... that sounds like an absolute truck-load of work for a very niche requirement, lol.
I think I'll pass on adding that to the context menu for the time being

Hopefully it helps verysofttoiletpaper though.

Side Note: that is one freaking hilarious alias, lol.