Here’s the quick tip to disable them entirely. If you watch a lot of videos using VLC, you might have noticed that it enables subtitles by default if they are there, which can be pretty annoying at times. But if I go to ‘video’ and I go to ‘subtitles track’ and ‘open file’ and find the subtitles and hit ‘open’ and click play again, the subtitles are displayed. Ss you can see if I hit play, there is no subtitles displaying in this movie. What I wanted to show you is that you can add subtitles manually. OK, so here have a movie opened up, it’s a Harry Potter movie. You can go to ‘tools’ like we did before and go to ‘preferences’ just hit control + P and again we go down to the bottom left corner click ‘all’ – click the little arrow – hit video and then subtitles/OSD and you have to keep enable sub pictures or you have to enable this and click this check box to be able to open subtitles manually – and I just click save. If you still want the option to open subtitles manually then you need to set up the VLC media player a little differently. All you have to do now is to click ‘save’ and the next time that you open a movie in the VLC media player, it won’t show any subtitles at all. You have to uncheck autodetect subtitles files and you need to uncheck on-screen display and uncheck enable sub pictures that’s basically it.

This will give you some options and here you need to uncheck these three checkboxes. Now you will get some more detailed options and here you have to look for video.Ĭlick this little arrow and then check or click on subtitles/OSD which means on-screen display. that will bring up the preferences dialog box and in this box you will have to look down in the bottom left corner and click on “all”. When you have the VLC player open you will have to go to tools and then go to preferences or you can just hit control+P, let’s just try that. If you are watching a lot of movies in your native language then it is not the best idea to have subtitles turned on – and you will need a way to turn them off, and I’ll show you how in this little guide. Subtitles are turned on by default in the VLC media player and sometimes that can be annoying. Hard subtitles are encoded directly in the video file. Note that ‘hard’ subtitles can’t be turned off. You can turn them off completely or you can set up the VLC player to only display subtitles when you manually open the subtitle file. If you don’t want any subtitles to be displayed then you need to turn them of. Subtitles are a great feature in VLC and they are turned on by default.

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