Secondary subtitles problem: only accepts native language as primary about mpvacious

[tatsumoto-ren]

Maybe you have the slang property set to en,eng in mpv.conf. If so, change it to something else.

You can always select different subtitle tracks after a video loads by pressing J,K and ctrl+J, ctrl+K.

[spirited1086]

Thanks for the response Tatsumoto,

I can manually set the secondary subtitle tracks with ctrl+J. That works.

I changed slang to prioritize es (Spanish) subtitles and see what happens. For some reason English subs still load first, and block the Spanish subtitles from automatically loading (whereas before when the slang property prioritized English, this was the only combination that would automatically load for automatic secondary subtitles).

[nairyosangha]

Shot in the dark, but is the show you're watching also in Spanish? @tatsumoto-ren pointed out on matrix today that mpv does not automatically load subtitles if they're in the same language as the audio. So, if your audio is Spanish, it's possible that mpv refuses to load the spanish subtitle.

You can get around that by adding subs-with-matching-audio=yes in your mpv.conf