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Keyboard hotkey for Subtitle On-Off toggle

Posted: 14 May 2014 07:50
by deac33
Is there a keyboard hotkey to toggle Subtitles On-Off?

I see in VLC Preferences in "Hotkeys" tab there are some 8 keyboard hotkeys for controlling subtitles, but I don't see one for just toggle Subtitles On-Off.

If there is none, is it possible for me to customize the preferences to include one, if necessary I'd be willing to give up almost any other subtitle hotkey. :-)

Thanks very much. Great product!
-deac

Re: Keyboard hotkey for Subtitle On-Off toggle

Posted: 03 Jun 2014 02:53
by jwebb117
You can cycle through subtitle tracks with "S". I assume one of the cycles would be "off". You can see those if you turn on the advanced option in the hotkey settings.

Re: Keyboard hotkey for Subtitle On-Off toggle

Posted: 05 Jun 2014 05:23
by deac33
Yes!! "s" (or "S") works well, thanks much.
Do you or anyone know about setting the default to ON for subtitles. I admit hitting "s" isn't hard, but I just found in Preferences settings that I can't get to work.

VLC Preferences, Show All: Input/Codecs shows a right side pane containing
Subtitle Track (I set it to 1 thinking it would come up on Track 1. :-) )
Subtitle Track ID (was 0, I set it to 1, then 2, 3, ... 99)
When I set it to 1 and 1, save a start VLC player the menu item: Subtitltes > Subtitle Track does show Track 1, but no captions show up until I click it, same appearance but now captions are on. ??? Also when I click "s" now it shows track 2. So it's sort of on Track 1 but not enabled for some reason.

Any ideas?

Re: Keyboard hotkey for Subtitle On-Off toggle

Posted: 11 Aug 2014 22:14
by jwebb117
Have you tried scrapping your VLC install and reinstalling? That sounds like something isn't working right in the machine.

Re: Keyboard hotkey for Subtitle On-Off toggle

Posted: 30 May 2018 19:29
by Pawpcorn
the v key is the current hotkey for cycling thru subtitles; like stated above, if there's one ONE subtitle, it effectively turns it on and off, which is sweet :lol:

Re: Keyboard hotkey for Subtitle On-Off toggle

Posted: 28 Jul 2021 20:02
by tomdecolita
the v key is the current hotkey for cycling thru subtitles; like stated above, if there's one ONE subtitle, it effectively turns it on and off, which is sweet :lol:
Thaank you, sir! =)