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Posted: **09 Jan 2026, 14:40**

Hi,

Does anyone know if there's a label to identify forced subtitles?

Thanks

Posted: **09 Jan 2026, 15:56**

{subt} will add the language code and the -forced marker.

{subt} notably can only detect -forced subtitles that are already marked as such. If you need auto-detection, then you might have to write your own code that reads the subtitle files and checks for certain heuristics.

Posted: **09 Jan 2026, 20:37**

Thanks for your help.

Posted: **10 Jan 2026, 05:03**

What is the format you ended up using in the end? Please copy & paste for the next guy.

Posted: **10 Jan 2026, 08:15**

Hi

I've done what you told me, but it's not recognizing the forced subtitles.

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{n} {sxe} {t} [{vf} {source} {vcf} {acf} {audioLanguages} Subs{textLanguages}{tags}][{subt}]

Posted: **10 Jan 2026, 11:07**

piter332 wrote: ↑10 Jan 2026, 08:15 it's not recognizing the forced subtitles

What are the subtitle file names you have?

Can you share the subtitle files or OpenSubtitles links to these subtitles?

Posted: **10 Jan 2026, 17:43**

De Mediainfo

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exto #2
ID                                       : 5
Formato                                  : UTF-8
ID códec                                 : S_TEXT/UTF8
ID códec/Info                            : UTF-8 Plain Text
Duración                                 : 1 h 40 min
Tasa de bits                             : 0 b/s
Velocidad de fotogramas                  : 0,001 FPS
Count of elements                        : 7
Tamaño de pista                          : 141 Bytes (0%)
Idioma                                   : Español
Default                                  : Sí
Forced                                   : Sí

Posted: **10 Jan 2026, 19:59**

I see. You are talking about embedded subtitles and not external subtitles. That changes things.

In this case, please copy & paste the raw MediaInfo table via FileBot so we can see the all the keys. That way we can write code to check if the file contains any subtitles streams that are marked as forced.

e.g. check if at least one subtitle stream is marked as Forced and if so add [Forced] to the file path:

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{ text.Forced =~ /Yes/ ? ' [Forced]' : null }

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