Option to delete redundant subtitles

138 votes

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Sometimes, movies or shows come with both an external subtitle file and embedded versions, which results in multiple subtitle tracks being displayed in various media players.

Describe the solution you'd like
It would be amazing if bazarr could detect such a situation and then resolve any redundancies, at best only keep the subtitle with the highest score.

https://github.com/morpheus65535/bazarr/issues/277

Under consideration Suggested by: morpheus65535 (27 Aug, '19) • Upvoted: 20 Jan • Comments: 5

Comments: 5

02 Dec, '20
Karl
I would also like to see this. Cheers!
06 Mar, '21
vitiko
Bazarr already has an option to ignore missing subtitles if an embedded subtitle is present.
16 Oct, '21
sunsailor
sometimes subs are not correctly tagged as forced or director's commentary or such - so this would be a good idea provided that subs contents are compared, and if coincident on a minimum percentage (say, 60%), considered redundant and deleted. Furthermore this could also be used to identify Hearing-Impaired when incorrectly tagged.
06 Dec, '21
vitiko
So I misunderstood this feature request.

This is pretty much possible, but it will be very I/O expensive as FFmpeg needs to read the entire file to remove its streams (subtitles, in this case).
24 Apr, '22
Nonobis
i agree for movies or sub, i have many duplicate sub, sometimes tagged full or forced ...
i would like to batch delete all srt files who are not full or only in specific language (and keep those with better score)