How to limit VLC to display subtitles _exactly_ pertinent to movie playing?

[Ahearn Irving]

I don't have many subtitle files in SRT format, but I'm finding that VLC is playing the subtitle in a folder no matter which movie is playing. I keep having to take the subtitles off each time which has just been so annoying!

How can we limit VLC to play subtitles that have the _exact_ name as the movie does? I found in the past that other players had the option to do so. So instead of picking up any SRT, to only play the ones with the exact name.

How do we do that in VLC, please, anyone know? I've searched several times in last week but am not getting any hits. And I combed through the settings but didn't see where this might be controlled.

It's such a nuisance. I need to play a movie today with a friend that has subtitles for one version of the film that plays with both versions (a 1940s version and a 1990s remake). Most annoying. Yet I don't want to individually turn subtitles off all the time anymore, or to take that off by default (then I forget there are subtitles and lose this functionality because of that).

Thank you!

[Ahearn Irving]

I'm coming back to this thread as there never was a response. I still have the same problem. It used to be that as long as a video's subtitle file had the exact same name, no other video would use that subtitle file. I don't have many srt files but the aggravating thing is that as long as there is a srt file in a folder, any video in that folder will pick it up as I have VLC to play subtitle files automatically. I don't upgrade VLC often (don't fix what isn't broken) but I have updated it since I posted this question in 2017.

Does anyone know why these later versions of VLC still play any srt file in a folder and not just stick with the ones with the exact filename but different extension?

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2020-04-19 07:27:50 (https://forums.tomsguide.com/threads/getting-rid-of-adding-subtitles-everytime-in-vlc-player.352245/)
Mar 8, 2014, #2
If the SRT file and the movie are in the same place VLC should just load the subs automatically. Just make sure the SRT file and the video file have the exact same name.
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As stated in the 2014 example on another website, it used to be that we just needed to have the EXACT name and only when the video of the same name was played would the srt show up.

Please advise and thanks!

[mederi]

Tools > Preferences > Show settings=All > Video \ Subtitles/OSD: Subtitle autodetection fuzziness

[Ahearn Irving]

Tools > Preferences > Show settings=All > Video \ Subtitles/OSD: Subtitle autodetection fuzziness

Thank you!

In all my searching, never came up with that, and this didn't help how to know what this autodetection fuzziness does, but using that in a new search, found this helpful information:

2020-04-19 13:33:40 (https://www.reddit.com/r/VLC/comments/5iiu5i/make_video_load_subtitle_file_automatically/)

Now to make sure the correct subtitle is loaded up for each video. The "Subtitle autodetection fuzziness" is what comes into play here. When this is set to 3, it means that when you open a video file, VLC will search the new subtitle folder for files containing the exact title of that video plus any additional characters (you can view the descriptions of each fuzziness level by hovering over the number in the Preferences window)..."

And hovering over where the number is (mine is set to "1", must be a default), what each # does is listed (I'm typing this out, not copy-pasted from the popup, so not the exact phrasing, but close enough):

1 = no subtitle file detected
2 = any subtitle file (sheesh, no wonder!!)
3 = subtitle with movie name and extra characters (this is a good one!)
4 = subtitle file matches name of movie exactly -- this must have been the default before in all my VLCs

Thanks for this! I've set mine to "3".

Cheers!