Sat 1:37 amI always select the DTS -HD MA audio only and then deselect all of the other tracks (like a DTS 'core'). can you expand on how to handle movies like that? I am assuming I just need to select and save english sub BOTH forced AND regular subs for every movie I do? This way I will have the subtitles with the file if I ever need them? I do not know every movie in my collection with subtitles sadly lol. I was just reading about there being issues with some forced title movies like Avatar.

I definitely do not want to burn them in unless I absolutely have to. I don't use Plex or Kodi but they should be fine there too, others can answer that more definitively. They will be individually selectable and play in common software players such as mpv and VLC.

If there are forced subtitles, they will output as a separate track, if there aren't any, the forced track will just be skipped, a separate empty track will not be created. I always have both the subtitle track and the forced sub-track select by default. But there's not much reason to burn them in.

If you want to burn them in, you can re-encode (and this will re-compress the video) with a program such as Handbrake. Subtitles are ripped as subtitle tracks, they are not burned in.

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