2 Subtitle Tracks Play on Top of Each Other IDX/SUB

[Bondiablo]

I have a movie ripped from bluray to MKV with 3 subtitle tracks, 2 English and 1 Spanish, in IDX/SUB files. When playing the video with the 1st English track selected both the English and Spanish subtitles display on top of each other, the 2nd English track displays English subtitles and the 3rd Spanish track displays no subtitles. Any ideas how to fix this?

[Keyser]

What happens when you play the video with NO subtitles selected? I ask this because I have a feeling that one of the subtitles (probably the spanish) are hardcoded.

Edit: Sorry. My mistake. You do say that selecting spanish subtitles display no subtitles at all. So my answer doesn't make any sense!

[roma_turok]

Open MKV in MediaInfo and select View -> Text
copy and paste on forum to see if MKV proper ripped

[Bondiablo]

General
Unique ID : 79429413957030511545582042881243140341 (0x3BC18C765338811DBCB5877CCFCED0F5)
Format : Matroska
Format version : Version 4 / Version 2
File size : 1.09 GiB
Duration : 2 h 6 min
Overall bit rate : 1 229 kb/s
Encoded date : UTC 2013-11-15 00:31:47
Writing application : mkvmerge v6.4.1 ('Omega Point') built on Sep 22 2013 18:21:24
Writing library : libebml v1.3.0 + libmatroska v1.4.1 / Lavf54.63.104

Video
ID : 1
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : High@L3.1
Format settings, CABAC : Yes
Format settings, RefFrames : 16 frames
Codec ID : V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC
Duration : 2 h 6 min
Width : 720 pixels
Height : 390 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 1.85:1
Frame rate mode : Constant
Frame rate : 23.976 (24000/1001) FPS
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Writing library : x264 core 140 r2377M 1ca7bb9
Encoding settings : cabac=1 / ref=16 / deblock=1:0:0 / analyse=0x3:0x133 / me=umh / subme=10 / psy=1 / psy_rd=1.00:0.00 / mixed_ref=1 / me_range=24 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=2 / 8x8dct=1 / cqm=0 / deadzone=21,11 / fast_pskip=1 / chroma_qp_offset=-2 / threads=12 / lookahead_threads=2 / sliced_threads=0 / nr=0 / decimate=1 / interlaced=0 / bluray_compat=0 / constrained_intra=0 / bframes=8 / b_pyramid=2 / b_adapt=2 / b_bias=0 / direct=3 / weightb=1 / open_gop=0 / weightp=2 / keyint=250 / keyint_min=23 / scenecut=40 / intra_refresh=0 / rc_lookahead=60 / rc=crf / mbtree=1 / crf=19.0 / qcomp=0.60 / qpmin=0 / qpmax=69 / qpstep=4 / ip_ratio=1.40 / aq=1:1.00
Default : Yes
Forced : No
Color range : Limited
Matrix coefficients : BT.709

Audio
ID : 2
Format : AAC
Format/Info : Advanced Audio Codec
Format profile : LC
Codec ID : A_AAC
Duration : 2 h 6 min
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Channel positions : Front: L R
Sampling rate : 48.0 kHz
Frame rate : 46.875 FPS (1024 SPF)
Compression mode : Lossy
Delay relative to video : 9 ms
Language : English
Default : Yes
Forced : No

Menu
00:00:00.000 : en:00:00:00.000
00:09:43.500 : en:00:09:43.500
00:15:46.404 : en:00:15:46.404
00:28:43.388 : en:00:28:43.388
00:37:14.983 : en:00:37:14.983
00:52:44.411 : en:00:52:44.411
00:59:01.329 : en:00:59:01.329
01:03:04.572 : en:01:03:04.572
01:08:22.348 : en:01:08:22.348
01:14:25.044 : en:01:14:25.044
01:17:54.879 : en:01:17:54.879
01:22:44.585 : en:01:22:44.585
01:43:49.807 : en:01:43:49.807
01:52:34.706 : en:01:52:34.706
01:54:44.836 : en:01:54:44.836
01:58:18.049 : en:01:58:18.049
02:06:33.169 : en:02:06:33.169

[roma_turok]

I don't see any subtitles in MKV
the IDX/SUB files is separated from MKV?

[Bondiablo]

Yes, the IDX and SUB files are separate from the MKV.

[videobruger]

Perhaps zip the idx/vobsub and attach them to a post.

You may examine the .idx part in a text editor and the vobsub part with eg. BDSup2Sub.

[Bondiablo]

Well, I thought I was on to something. I merged the original MKV, IDX and SUB files into a new MKV with mkvtoolnix and the new MKV played correctly with the subs. Then I tried extracting the subs from the new MKV file but got 3 separate IDX and SUB files and when I tried to merge those back into 1 IDX and SUB file with VobsubMuxer I got an error "The number of total Vobsubs is bigger than 32!"

[sneaker]

.idx files can have more than one track per file. Mkvtoolnix will separate them on muxing. Maybe your player tried to play all tracks of a given .idx but can handle them normally once separated by mkvtoolnix.