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Did you try --sub-track 0 and 1 ? Thanks for the alternative, but that did not work. It behaves the same. In the menu, the subtitle is shown selected, but until the menu **is** manually selected for Closed Captions 1 or 2 or 3, the subtitles are not displayed. Just for clarity, none of these cause ...

I don't have a solution to the described issue, but perhaps a work-around? What format are the subtitles? Sub, SRT, something else? Are the subs stored inside the container or as a separate file? If in a separate file, are you certain that the subs are matched to the video file? Often, different cou...

I'd like to start vlc and specify a subtitle (closed caption) stream contained inside the MPEG2 video file. $ vlc --sub-track-id=4 file.mpg or $ vlc --sub-track-id 4 file.mpg There are 2 closed caption streams inside the file - CC1 and CC3. Selecting the CC1 or CC3 track in the VLC GUI works as expe...