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there is an issue with vlc i have notice. there is no option to disable automatic track selection for subtitles. more and more often i am seeing the subtitle tracks encoded directly into the video files themselves and i am frequently seeing vlc automatically load whatever is listed as track one. vlc shouldn't automatically load subtitle tracks unless told to do so through the prefered subtitle language string. i propose a check box to prevent the automatic selection and loading of subtitle tracks.

You can disable automated subtitle loading.

Ok...the question is how? If someone asks how do to it, you don't relpy...yes you can.

I want to know the same thing. I have gone into preferences and turned off EVERY thing I can find that has anything to do with subtitles or OSD, and still they will automatically load whenever I open an mkv. Every time I have to go into Video --> Subtitles Track --> Disable. The question is HOW do you set disable as the default for embedded subtitle tracks!!



Ok...After eventually spending hours changing EVERY setting I could, I finally found out how to disable the automatic subtitle loading. Go to preferences, click "All" for the advanced settings. Under "Input/Codecs" find "Subtitles track ID" and change it from -1 to 0. This will finally disable the automatic embedded subtitle track loading. Is there any way you guys could set this as the default, so if someone were to "reset all" it will go to this, instead of auto loading subtitle track 1.

Put the preferred track to none