[Feature Request]: Skip forced subtitles not matching original or selected language

[vevv]

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Description

Apple has an original language field, could use that to skip forced subs which are for other languages, alternatively to only download forced subs for a language selected by user.

[MichaelYochpaz]

Hey, thanks for the suggestions.
Just to be sure, you're asking for an option to filter out "fake" forced subtitles for translated languages (which I believe are usually just title translation?) that aren't the real forced subtitles (which should be only for the original language)?

I know that these exist as I've encountered a few in the past, but do you have an example for such case for testing?

[vevv]

No, they're often more than title translation, and they're often necessary for the dub watchers, so they shouldn't be skipped by default, but they're not needed for my usecase, so an option to skip them would save me some removing. The option to select language to download forced subtitles for would be useful for others to only download forced subtitles for the audio that they have, or to override potential incorrect "original language" tags.

[MichaelYochpaz]

Had no plans to add it by default, I was just asking what's the reason behind it and what's the solution you proposed.

Would a download-only-original-forced config option, that if enabled, will filter out any 'forced' subtitles that aren't in the original language suffice?

Can't guarantee I'll add that yet, as it might be more complicated than it looks.
For example, it might say "Hebrew" is the original language in the metadata of the movie, while the subtitles are named "עברית" ("Hebrew" in Hebrew), and have a language code of "he" or "he-il", which will require some extra work.

[vevv]

That sounds good to me.