Is there anyway to preview which subtitles are going to appear in your movie? The preview window doesn't show them even after you've selected them.

I'm talking about situations in which there may be one or two lines of foreign dialouge in the whole film, but if you untick all the english subtitle selections there will be no subs for that foreign dialogue. Tick the wrong english sub file and every bit of english spoken will have a subtitle, which is unnecessary. Tick the right sub file and you get the specific bit of dialouge you want.

So how do you know which one to tick? It's a pita having to encode a couple of chapters at a time to ensure you have the correct subs selected before encoding the whole movie.

Hi Syphor and welcome to the forum. Subtitle display is complicated by the fact that there are as many schemes to put them in a movie as there are movies that use them (I'm talking about "translation" subtitles, the kind you described). In DaVinci Code, for instance, the translations are part of the main english subtitles, just turned on and off by the IFO files. The best way to be sure you get what you want is probably the pita way as you said, to encode a couple of chapters to your HDD and watch them with a PC player. WinDVD has good subtitle control and is what I use for this. If any of the english (on R1 discs) subtitles are marked "forced" they are probably the ones you want. If anybody has a better way (short of editing the IFOs manually) I'd love to hear it.