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I've got a few old TV episodes in .mkv format, and every time I launch them in VLC (1.0.5 and 1.1.1), it defaults to enabling subtitles. I have to manually disable subtitles for each video. Is there any way to force subtitles off by default? I've checked every advanced option I could find, and didn't see it.

Force the prefered audio to "none"

I don't see an option for preferred audio. The best I could do is force a specific language for the sub, but I couldn't seem to disable it. I checked the Wiki, and didn't find what I was looking for there, either.

Hello Jito463,
I found a preference to disable subtitles by default, see the following pic prepared with Vlc 1.1.1 :
http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/5251 ... titles.jpg

Tools => Preferences => Show Settings (tick All) => Video => Subtitles/Osd => Enable sub-pictures (UNticked) => Save Pref

Then each time you launch VLC, it will default to disabling Subtitles
But...as soon as you will need to display any subtitle, you'll have to do this all again and tick "Enable sub-pictures"
It seems that unticking "Enable sub-pictures" superseeds Video menu => Subtitles Track => Tick any subtitle.
I wasn't able to display any subtitle ticked in the Video menu, as soon as "Enable sub-pictures" is unticked in Preferences.

I saw that option before, but assumed it was unrelated. That did the trick. Thanks for the help, solazy. Glad you weren't too "lazy" to help.