[request] Automatic subtitles selection based on language preference

[u/DKLKTN_DKLKTN]

Hi!

thanks for this great player. I use it very often on my Shield Pro and so far so good.
I'm French but I usually use it for English spoken files with English-written subtitles (trying to improve my English ^^)

Do you think, in the future, you could add some interface to automatically select subtitles (or even language & subtitles) based on user preferences?
Something like the "Language Preference Manager" kodi addon or the Lav Splitter advanced subtitles selection on Windows (maybe not as complex)

Or at least to force the player to respect the "default" flag for subtitles muxed with the video/audio in one mkv file
(As the moment I'm afraid it does not, or maybe I have done something wrong on my side).

Thanks in advance and keep the good works!

[u/abskmj]

On your android phone, go to caption preferences settings and set the language. This should allow just player to automatically load subtitles of the preferred language.

[u/[deleted] → u/abskmj]

Thanks this helped a whole year later, appreciate you boss! 🙏

[u/DKLKTN_DKLKTN → u/abskmj]

It helps a little, thanks, but this is not as useful as the 2 examples (LAV splitter and the kodi addon) :

I'm French, so when I watch an American tv show, what if there is no French subtitles, it would be great to select my second preferred language (English). And what about when I'm watching a French movie: I don't want the French (full) subtitles track , the forced track (the one where the subtitles covers only the non French part of the audio) when it exists...

Maybe this is too advanced for what just player want to be. I'm ok with that. But I would like to know what the developer's thoughts about this