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I've rjust setup my own FTP serer and am migrating my music and videos to it for obvious reasons. My problem is that some of the video files have subtitle tracks and when I play them using Mozilla and the VLC Plug-in the sub-tracks are loaded by default and I get Eng Subs with an Eng Dub that doesn't match... How can I turn off the subs? I don't feel like using MKVTools to strip the sub tracks from the video files just to deal with this.

--no-spu

? I insert that where? When I select the video from the server? I'm running the video in the browser with the Plugin not in VLC itself. TY for responding to this in any case.

I'd like to bump this if I may.

I've got some 1080 videos I like to play, but with Dutch subtitles. Which I don't mind, except I don't speak, read or write Dutch. Normally I would just delete the sub file, but there isn't one. They're not hardcoded, but they are written into the .mkv file.

I was hoping the "--no-spu" bit would go into the "preferred subtitle language" text field, but that didn't do the trick. Any other options for leaving the subtitle default as disabled? I'm on 1.1.5 if that makes a difference. mmm, maybe a good time to check for updates...

You can (obviously) not remove burnt subtitles. The parts of the images that are hidden are lost and unrecoverable.

Oh, they're not burned in. I can turn them on and off. It's just that there isn't a sub file to delete.

Tools->preferences
Show settings = All
Video->Subtitles/OSD
uncheck Enable sub-pictures
save and restart vlc

That does it nicely, thanks much!