POssible to embed audio track and subtitle in matroska?

[Devilman1]

What I want to do is show a particular subtitle track when I watch a movie with an audio and another subtitle track when I watch the movie listening to the second audio track.

Is this possible?

I noticed the option preference track, but I don't think it does all that I want.

Bye

[niamh]

Yes it's absolutely possible with Haali's new splitter (http://haali.cs.msu.ru/mkv/).Once installed, go to the splitter's properties in program files, and set preference pairs of languages for audio/subtitle combo. If you hover the mouse over the "audio and subtitles language" line, instructions on how to do it exactly will pop up.

[iapir]

I think this new option is for preferred languages, not pairing languages. I'm not sure if matroska allows pairing tracks this way. But IMO it's better to select both yourself, as it's usually done on DVDs. Everyone has his own preference.

[niamh]

I think this new option is for preferred languages, not pairing languages.
I'm not sure what you mean. I have set 5 or 6 pairings audio language/sub language, and it certainly works a treat for me.If track 1 and track 2 are both in the same language, and so are the subs, then one can use a little bit of imagination and use obscure language tags while muxing the file, so that these particular streams get their own settings for playback. Btw the remaining streams don't vanish, it's as easy as usual to select another track on the fly.And there is still the option of make default track (that all players don't recognize yet IIRC >> haven't used it in ages)

[Devilman1]

If I understand well to do what I want I have to set this option in the filter, but if I lend this movie to somebody else this is not working. Am I wrong?

Bye

[iapir]

Nop, you're right. It's on the user side. But then you can't force the user to choose a combination and not another.

[Devilman1]

So it is not possible to do it like in a DVD when there are forced subtitle somewhere during the playback.

[iapir]

No forced subtitles don't exist in Matroska. I think they plan to add it, someday...