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[SOLVED] HandBrakeCLI (via ARM) incorrectly marking first subtitle track as "Forced" in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

[–] Cyberpro123@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

They're all .mkv files. The issue isn't that there are no subtitles, or that the subtitles are burnt-in to the video, the issue is that the first subtitle track is getting marked as 'forced' when it shouldn't be.

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[SOLVED] HandBrakeCLI (via ARM) incorrectly marking first subtitle track as "Forced" (lemmy.world)

submitted 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) by Cyberpro123@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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EDIT: Oh my god, sorry, I'm an idiot who forgot that the Jellyfin subtitles setting menu had a save button you needed to press. ALSO, Simultaneously, I posted this earlier than I intended; I thought to myself "OK I'll try this one last thing and if that doesn't work then I'll give up and ask for help", and then went and wrote this post while I waited for the DVD to rip - and then I went and posted it as soon as I was done writing, without waiting for the one last attempt to finish. It turns out that removing the --subtitle scan flag fixes the problem. So I double shouldn't have posted this. Sorry for taking up your time, I saw an option to hide this post so I think I'll be doing that now.

First, this doesn't seem like quite the right community to post this in, but I couldn't find a better fitting one on Lemmy, and I'd prefer not to dust off my Reddit account if I don't have to. If you know of somewhere better for me to post this please let me know

I'm trying to use Automatic Ripping Machine (ARM) to copy my DVD collection onto my home server for playback with Jellyfin. I want the subtitles on the Jellyfin versions of my shows to work the same as playing the DVDs on my blu-ray player: Off by default, available when desired. After some googling I found that in order to have the subtitles on the disc to be retained in the files output by ARM (and thus be displayable in Jellyfin) I needed to put the --all-subtitles flag in the HB_ARGS_DVD section of the config file, so that it'd be passed to HandBrakeCLI in the transcoding stage. That worked, the subtitle selector appeared in Jellyfin and had all the options as the DVD does in my blu-ray player, but it introduced a new problem: The first subtitle track gets incorrectly marked as "Forced", and is selected by default in Jellyfin even when I set my Jellyfin user's subtitle settings to "None".

I have tried and tried and tried but no search term I've come up with has found me somebody who had this same problem. I found that the -F option that was included in HB_ARGS_DVD by default is short for --subtitle-forced, which marks the first subtitle track as forced when given without an argument, but removing the -F from the config file and recreating the ARM docker container did nothing to fix the issue. Replacing the -F with --subtitle-forced='none' or --subtitle-forced=none also didn't work, and neither did adding --subtitle-default=none or --subtitle-default='none'

My current setting for HB_ARGS_DVD is --subtitle scan --all-subtitles --subtitle-burned=none --subtitle-default=none, which still has the issue. The only lead I have left is to use an external program called "MKVToolNix" to manually set the subtitle track as not forced for every single video file, but

I'd rather fix the tool I'm already using than add an extra step to the DVD ripping process if possible
I tried using MKVToolNix earlier and couldn't get it to do what I wanted

A way to make Jellyfin disregard the "Forced" flag and treat the subtitle track normally would also work in my case but that seems less likely to exist than a way to fix HandBrake.

To Americans: How far apart is everything in the US? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

[–] Cyberpro123@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Small town in Oregon here (all measured along the routes walked, not 'as the crow flies'):

Convenience Store: ~150 meters, right down the road
Supermarket: Will get back to later
Bus Stop: The local bus company runs a loop around town so there's technically one closer to my house than the convenience store, but the busses that can take you to another town stop at the one ~400 meters away.
Park: Three parks, which are ~400, ~500, and ~580 meters away respectively, though there's not much of anything at the 400 meter one but some sports fields.
Big Supermarket: Will get back to later
Library: ~500 meters (the 500 meter park is right across from it)
Train Station: 29 kilometers by car to the nearest passenger rail station I can find. Without a car I'd need to walk ~400 m to the bus stop, take a $1 bus ride with the local company to Town B, then take another bus ran by this town's company, and then walk another ~480 meters because they don't have a stop at the station. Google Maps predicts that trip will take about 1 hour 20 minutes one-way, and it would cost $2 (or $4 round trip).

Now, I'm not entirely sure what separates a supermarket from a "big supermarket" in your mind, because to me all supermarkets are quite big by definition, so I'm going to explore three different trip options: one each to two supermarkets in or near my town, and one to the nearest Walmart, which I'm 100% sure should count as a "big supermarket", but which is a couple towns away.

Supermarket A is close enough that walking to it is a viable option, which would be ~730 meters to the edge of the parking lot or ~875 meters to the front of the store. Alternatively, if I can plan the scheduling of my trip around it or I'm not picky about the timing I can walk ~100 meters to the nearest stop in the city bus loop, wait a while, and walk of right at the front.
Supermarket B is 2.6 kilometers by foot, but a large part of that trip is walking along the side of a lightly-developed highway with no sidewalks, so I don't consider walking here a viable option. By bus it's the same 100 meters to the bus stop, wait, then directly to the storefront.
The nearest Walmart is ~25 kilometers away by car, but the local bus company doesn't offer a direct route to that town so I have to take a bus to Town C, take the Town C Bus Company's bus to the east edge of Town D, then take Town D's bus to the Walmart on the western edge. Google Maps says this would take just over 2 hours one-way, and it would cost $2 ($4 round trip) because Town D's busses are all free to ride at the moment.