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I was wondering how I can disable subtitles. I'm pretty sure the movie that I'm playing has embedded subtitles. I've also gone into preferences and disabled anything having to do with subtitles. Any help on this is greatly appreciated.

when playing, just go to video menu > subtitles > desactivated

Already tried that. I disabled everything having to do with subtitles.

What file you are playing? And does Ctrl+i and Advanced information tab find those subtitle streams?

if the subs are incrusted in the video, there is nothing you can do

Forum is a little old but here is my question... Is there a way to set subtitles to only come on when you turn them on? Have them so they are normally off...

Pat

There are

--sub-track=<integer> Subtitles track
Stream number of the subtitle track to use (from 0 to n).
--sub-language=<string> Subtitle language
Language of the subtitle track you want to use (comma separated, two
or three letters country code).
--sub-track-id=<integer> Subtitles track ID
Stream ID of the subtitle track to use.

options, which you can also adjust from Tools -> Preferences... (show settings: All) Input / Codecs

"There are

--sub-track=<integer> Subtitles track
Stream number of the subtitle track to use (from 0 to n).
--sub-language=<string> Subtitle language
Language of the subtitle track you want to use (comma separated, two
or three letters country code).
--sub-track-id=<integer> Subtitles track ID
Stream ID of the subtitle track to use.

options, which you can also adjust from Tools -> Preferences... (show settings: All) Input / Codecs"

Could anyone decipher this? I can't understand what to do?
--sub-track=<integer....
You don't tell us where to type in the macro (or whatever that code is)

I don't know why it is turned on as standard. Can't VLC writers write a patch (probably use the above code if they understand it) and make it avaliable in the next download? Load of people would benifit from that, and I would stop bichin in these forums. Thanks

You don't tell us where to type in the macro (or whatever that code is)

Command-line options.

I don't know why it is turned on as standard.

You can disable it via Tools -> Preferences... (show settings: All) Input / Codecs and setting the Subtitles Track ID to 0 should work (remember save and restart).
viewtopic.php?f=14&t=62294&p=217936&hil ... es#p208480

Hi, thank you for the reply.

I tried what you said. This is exactly what I did:
open vlc
tool
preferences
click show all at the bottom
input/codecs
set track id=0 (it was -1)
save
exit
opened vlc again, subtitles were still there.

Why does this work for you and not me (And alot of other it seems)?

Thanks

I have since tried setting anything with (track) to 0, and nothing worked.

Why are the subs set on as standard?
Can anyone disable these?
Does anyone know of another video player as good as VLC that saves changes?

Hi all, I found an answer, please view this thread (there is one question and answer)
viewtopic.php?f=7&t=75185&p=247266&hili ... es#p247266

The answer is to set subtitle track and subtitle track id to 99.
I dont know why, but it works.
(SAVE, CLOSE, and restart and you should be fine - until you do a VLC update I bet!)

Changing the setting under preferences from -1 to o worked for me. But I cannot understand why on earth VLC thinks playing subtitles as a default is a good idea. It's ridiculous. There must be thousands of people who never bother looking up how to fix this stupid default who simply never use VLC ever again. I've just downloaded the latest version 1.5 and they still have the subtitles playing as default. Crazy.

But I cannot understand why on earth VLC thinks playing subtitles as a default is a good idea. It's ridiculous.

You newer watch foreign films? Most VLC users use VLC because they are watching films they have downloaded from net. And usually they want subtitles for them.

Forum is a little old but here is my question... Is there a way to set subtitles to only come on when you turn them on? Have them so they are normally off...

Pat

Here is a video tutorial that answers exactly that and gives some pretty good advice on different settings for subtitles.

Tutorial: Turn off subtitles VLC

What a joke. I don't think anyone at VLC could give a strait answer as to what "Subtitles Track" and "Subtitle Track ID" integers actually do. Setting them to 99 to disable subtitles by default is the least intuitive solution I could imagine to the most basic problem that the vast majority of users obviously want to fix. The fact that the VLC moderators could not identify this or post it in the MANY threads asking this same question repeatedly is laughable (and I'm sure this buried thread will remain the only with the 'solution'). Threads exist asking this question since 2005. 'Durrr, we don't really know what the integers do, but if you set it to zero, that might work sometimes maybe!!!! HERP!" The only thing funnier is that over 7 years later they haven't added an advanced option to "Disable Subtitle Tracks by Default," even if it does so by retardedly setting some questionable fields to 99 despite it making no sense. This may be one of the SINGLE MOST COMMON SETTINGS your users would like to change. Seems clear that the lack of intuitiveness, your own ignorance of your own media player's settings, and the lack of effective support probably drives away a significant portion of potential users...

AGREED. This is just bush league programming, I mean come on folks...it took me half an hour looking on the internet finding a way to turn off subtitles. For something that should be an easy one click thing...you even have a "Subtitles" heading. I mean man, it's just stupid.

Sure, clicking on subtitles->Disable is very hard.

Sure, clicking on subtitles->Disable is very hard.

You gotta be kidding me with this dismissive attitude, Jean-Baptiste. It *is* annoying when you queue up a bunch of eps of something to watch with a friend and have to disable the subtitles by hand every time a new one starts up. If only there was some kind of machine that could do this for us, like a computer or something.

The method of setting the subtitle default is insane, and the particular flavor of insanity seems to have changed from the 1.x release to the 2.x series. Bush league, especially for an option that a google search will tell you is *widely* desired by the userbase.

You gotta be kidding with this insulting attitude, Tinman. People are volunteers and work for free on their free time. Insulting them is not OK, whatever the feature is.