A few Requests/Suggestions.
Reasonable Suggestions (that other tools use so can possibly be implemented)
Partial Copy - Specifically when using a Single Title/Playlist.
1) Option to remove the 'Top Menu' (not needed when using one title) and have the disc stop or loop (ideally users choice in GUI) when finished.
Current workaround - Manually remove Top menu in BDEdit and add the movie loop or stop.
2) Has been added in 1.0.6.2 Option to set a different audio and/or subtitle track as default during playback.
Current Workaround - Manually edit 'Set Stream' in BDEdit and change to desire audio/subtitle track.
3) Allow Audio to be encoded but not video (any audio options force unwanted video encode).
Preview Player
1) Ability to play just the forced parts of a Subtitle track.
Example - A disc has a Subtitle track, that contains both full English Subtitles and the foreign only subtitles (These are always marked as forced).
Currently CloneBD only plays the full subtitle - So the user would remove/uncheck it not knowing it also contains the forced parts.
Workaround - Use a 3rd party Player that has the ability to play/select just the forced parts (See end of post to see how I believe this is implemented)
MKV
1) Has been added in 1.0.6.7 Lossless Video/Audio 
Workaround - Use a 3rd party tool for full process.
2) Option to extract just the forced subtitle part of a track.
Workaround - use a 3rd party tool for full process (See end of post to see how I believe this is implemented)
3) Option to mark a track as default or forced.
Workaround - Edit MKV header after output with 3rd party tool.
4) Extract the AC3/DTS from TrueHD/DTS-HD tracks, without having to needlessly encode (the lossy track is already present)
Dreamland Suggestions (Things no other tool can do and probably aren't even possible)
Preview Player
1) Full Disc Playback, with option to see what track is actual being played (then mark that track for title selection)
Once this is implemented, also release it as Sly/ElbyPlayer for $100 lifetime so AnyDVD users can stop giving money each year to Cyberlink.
Regarding the forced subtitles playback/extraction suggestions (when it is contained/mixed in the full subtitle track)
This is how I believe (might be wrong) it is currently implemented in MPC-HC (for playback) and MakeMKV (for extraction):
MakeMKV creates a dummy 'forced' subtitle track for each subtitle track (without demuxing it can't tell if it really contains forced parts)
The user can then choose this dummy track, if selected, during processing MakeMKV then can see/find out if the track contains any forced parts and extracts/makes a track using them, if the track doesn't contain any forced parts, it tells you the track was "found to be empty" (proving it didn't really know beforehand and the listed track was a dummy)
MPC-HC (LAV) does the same thing and plays just the parts it sees as forced when it gets to them, again the track sometimes doesn't have any forced parts so nothing is shown (proving LAV doesn't know beforehand)
Edit: Picture of MakeMKV example (hopefully helps explain) During processing MakeMKV will remove the first dummy track (empty) and only the actual forced subtitle dummy track will remain.
Edit 2: new picture below (first labelled wrong)
Reasonable Suggestions (that other tools use so can possibly be implemented)
Partial Copy - Specifically when using a Single Title/Playlist.
1) Option to remove the 'Top Menu' (not needed when using one title) and have the disc stop or loop (ideally users choice in GUI) when finished.
Current workaround - Manually remove Top menu in BDEdit and add the movie loop or stop.
2) Has been added in 1.0.6.2
Current Workaround - Manually edit 'Set Stream' in BDEdit and change to desire audio/subtitle track.
3) Allow Audio to be encoded but not video (any audio options force unwanted video encode).
Preview Player
1) Ability to play just the forced parts of a Subtitle track.
Example - A disc has a Subtitle track, that contains both full English Subtitles and the foreign only subtitles (These are always marked as forced).
Currently CloneBD only plays the full subtitle - So the user would remove/uncheck it not knowing it also contains the forced parts.
Workaround - Use a 3rd party Player that has the ability to play/select just the forced parts (See end of post to see how I believe this is implemented)
MKV
1) Has been added in 1.0.6.7
Workaround - Use a 3rd party tool for full process.
2) Option to extract just the forced subtitle part of a track.
Workaround - use a 3rd party tool for full process (See end of post to see how I believe this is implemented)
3) Option to mark a track as default or forced.
Workaround - Edit MKV header after output with 3rd party tool.
4) Extract the AC3/DTS from TrueHD/DTS-HD tracks, without having to needlessly encode (the lossy track is already present)
Dreamland Suggestions (Things no other tool can do and probably aren't even possible)
Preview Player
1) Full Disc Playback, with option to see what track is actual being played (then mark that track for title selection)
Once this is implemented, also release it as Sly/ElbyPlayer for $100 lifetime so AnyDVD users can stop giving money each year to Cyberlink.
Regarding the forced subtitles playback/extraction suggestions (when it is contained/mixed in the full subtitle track)
This is how I believe (might be wrong) it is currently implemented in MPC-HC (for playback) and MakeMKV (for extraction):
MakeMKV creates a dummy 'forced' subtitle track for each subtitle track (without demuxing it can't tell if it really contains forced parts)
The user can then choose this dummy track, if selected, during processing MakeMKV then can see/find out if the track contains any forced parts and extracts/makes a track using them, if the track doesn't contain any forced parts, it tells you the track was "found to be empty" (proving it didn't really know beforehand and the listed track was a dummy)
MPC-HC (LAV) does the same thing and plays just the parts it sees as forced when it gets to them, again the track sometimes doesn't have any forced parts so nothing is shown (proving LAV doesn't know beforehand)
Edit: Picture of MakeMKV example (hopefully helps explain
) During processing MakeMKV will remove the first dummy track (empty) and only the actual forced subtitle dummy track will remain.Edit 2: new picture below (first labelled wrong)
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