How to make a subtitle file default?

[SaikyoKid]

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I wanted to download all the subtitles for a video and now i see that the subtitle is not default marked. is there any way to make a particular language subtitle to be default?

[dstftw]

Add --sub-lang option to config file.

[SaikyoKid]

I am on windows and I use youtube-dl.exe and I can't find the config file on either of the locations : %APPDATA%\youtube-dl\config.txt or C:\Users\<user name>\youtube-dl.conf any guesses why?

DO I have to create it on my own?

[SaikyoKid]

I made the conf file and placed in the appropriate place. And executed the following command :

youtube-dl "http://www.crunchyroll.com/naruto-shippuden/episode-451-itachis-story-light-and-darkness-birth-and-death-696211" -f 360p --all-subs --sub-format ass --recode-video mkv --postprocessor-args "-c copy" --embed-subs --merge-output-format mkv

It merged all the subtitle files in like I wanted. But, it did not mark the english subtitle as default.

[dstftw]

What do you mean by default in the first place?

[SaikyoKid]

You know, like make the video player play that particular subtitle file only.
Let's say I have 5 files in a video and I want the video player to load english subtitle by default.

[zackmark29]

What do you mean by default in the first place?

Hello dev. since there is a issue about this.
Is there any fix to make the subtitle as default on mp4 output?