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by anthonj 18 days ago
That's considered a feature in the community. Burning subs on the video trace is considered bad, but most video player will not automatically show any subtitle track.
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Are there standards for a video to declare a default subtitle track to use?
Oh looks like there is. mkv does and looks like mpv and vlc will respect that flag. For other formats I'm not so sure