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I found it again and it works quite well. Simply go to the Subtitles menu (not the preference) and turn on "Background Opacity" to the highest level, and Background Color to black and the new subtitles will cover the hard-coded ones. It isn't perfect, but it is very close.

Once I receive a reply to my previous question (hiding hard-coded subtitles), it would be very useful to be able to save several versions of my preferences. So, for example, I could have one preference file for films with hard-coded subtitles and another one for "normal" films. Other peopl...

Some time ago, I found in the settings a good solution to hiding the hard-coded subtitles so that I could use a different language subtitle. I have, unfortunately, forgotten which setting or settings it was. Does anyone know?

Although it does not happen much, I have sometimes gotten video files with hard-coded subtitles in a language I do not speak. I can download subtitles in another language, but then there are two subtitles on screen. I found that by setting opacity to 100 percent in VLC, that the external subs appear...