How do you permanently disable subtitles in video formats?
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How do you permanently disable subtitles in video formats?
None of these replies really answers the original question, which I am still trying to find. How do you permanently disable subtitles until you ask for them? You should not have to re-encode every video in your library just to disable subtitles that are not embedded into the actual video stream of the file. That just seems like sloppy coding to not include the option to set subtitles to "on demand only" instead of requiring them to be turned off every time.
As a side not re-encoding is not needed to add or remove tracks, it is called re-muxing. And for instance MKV container has flags for tracks - enable or disable by default. If your player is intelligent enough to read these flags you will not see or hear anything you do not want.
Video players always have options to turn-on or turn-off a separate subtitle track. But some people, e.g. when producing YouTube videos, choose instead to burn the titles directly into the video content: there is no "separate subtitle track" anymore. In that case, as has been said, they cannot be removed.
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I find that VLC does seem to default to showing subtitles rather than not, which is a little bit of a strange choice. I think that I managed to turn it off in the configuration somewhere but I'm not about to spend time working out how if this thread isn't about VLC.
I find that VLC does seem to default to showing subtitles rather than not, which is a little bit of a strange choice. I think that I managed to turn it off in the configuration somewhere but I'm not about to spend time working out how if this thread isn't about VLC.
I just checked. Open Tools > Preferences, things are clearly labeled from there.
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Originally Posted by maples
I just checked. Open Tools > Preferences, things are clearly labeled from there.
Indeed, it is there. I think there must have been an issue with the settings in a previous version because I recall that it wasn't that simple to turn off subtitles.
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