(YouTube) Auto-generated + manually submitted subtitles

[smnthermes]

How to set a config file enabling auto-generated subtitles for certain languages, while still keeping all manually submitted ones for videos that have these?

[garoto]

ytdl-raw-options=sub-lang="en,fr,tt,yi",write-sub=,write-auto-sub=

[smnthermes]

It works, but isn't a very elegant solution, since manually submitted subtitles have regional variants (unlike auto-generated ones). Is it possible to only link sub-lang to write-auto-sub, and link all-subs to write-sub?

[garoto]

manually submitted subtitles have regional variants (unlike auto-generated ones)

Just specify those then. e.g.: sub-lang="pt-BR,es-419,zh-TW,en-GB,en,pt,es"

[Akemi]

the question has been answered.

[lamyergeier]

@Akemi @garoto Please reopen the issue.

$ mpv --version
mpv 0.32.0 Copyright © 2000-2020 mpv/MPlayer/mplayer2 projects
 built on UNKNOWN
ffmpeg library versions:
   libavutil       56.31.100
   libavcodec      58.54.100
   libavformat     58.29.100
   libswscale      5.5.100
   libavfilter     7.57.100
   libswresample   3.5.100
ffmpeg version: 4.2.4-1ubuntu0.1

$ youtube-dl --version
2021.06.06

You can see from the folllwoing what you mentioned does not work:

$ echo $Url
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sxpKhIbr0E
$ mpv --no-config --fs --ytdl-raw-options=ignore-config=,sub-lang='en\,de',write-sub=,write-auto-sub= $Url
[ytdl_hook] Usage: youtube-dl [OPTIONS] URL [URL...]
[ytdl_hook] 
[ytdl_hook] youtube-dl: error: no such option: --de,write-sub 
[ytdl_hook] youtube-dl failed: unexpected error ocurred 
Failed to recognize file format.


Exiting... (Errors when loading file)
$ mpv --no-config --fs --ytdl-raw-options=ignore-config=,sub-lang='en,de',write-sub=,write-auto-sub= $Url
[ytdl_hook] Usage: youtube-dl [OPTIONS] URL [URL...]
[ytdl_hook] 
[ytdl_hook] youtube-dl: error: no such option: --de,write-sub 
[ytdl_hook] youtube-dl failed: unexpected error ocurred 
Failed to recognize file format

Exiting... (Errors when loading file)

[Akemi]

because you didn't properly escape your options. also this was a question and not an issue so not going to reopen it. if you have an issue please open a new one.

[lamyergeier]

@Akemi I wrote 2 examples. In the first one I escaped the comma and the second I didn't. In both cases I am getting the same error. Could you please tell me what is wrong?

[garoto]

I believe you need to escape the quotes , not the comma: sub-lang=\'en,de\'

[lamyergeier]

@garoto Thanks for your response, but what you mentioned does not work. Please don't comment if you are not sure.

[rxmmah]

ytdl-raw-options=sub-lang="en,fr,tt,yi",write-sub=,write-auto-sub=

where should i write this?
please help me

[llyyr]

where should i write this?

In your mpv.conf or pass it as a command line argument when running mpv