Question Subtitles and turning them off

[Scouse]

I've got a number of movies that I've watched previously using either windows media player or media player classic and I've always been able to easily disable the subtitles.

Suddenly I find I'm unable to do this. On more than one PC.

Normally a quick right-click and you could go to "subtitles" and turn 'em off. Now it's greyed out - when previously it worked fine.

It's almost as if they've been forced-on by default by an OS patch or something.


Yes, I could remove the embedded subtitles from each film before I started watching - but that's a ball ache and for longer stuff it takes a fucking age. And I shouldn't have to - especially when it used to work fine.

Anyone got any ideas?

 

[dysfunction]

Have you tried VLC?

 

[DaGaffer]

I've got a similar problem. Ripped a couple of Blu-Rays to .MKV the other day and now I have the visual-impaired voiceover on both of them and I can't figure out a way to turn it off (tried in VLC and GOMplayer) I think it may be embedded in the main audio unfortunately. I can get the blu-rays I borrowed back but I can't work out how ended up picking up the voiceover in the first place.

 

[Scouse]

I've not tried VLC but there's a good reason - I need to use WMP on one of my PC's because of a codec developed for it that allows my netbook to play 1080p video on a CUDA enabled chipset (the processor isn't powerful enough).

Still - it doesn't solve the problem of why turning subtitles off has suddenly reared its head when previously it wasn't an issue.

I can use .mkvmerge and remove the subtitle track from the files individually - it's a simple task - you uncheck the tick box and it repacks the file without the subs. It takes a little time depending on file size and, annoyingly, is so simple it looks like that the media players themselves have been b0rked somehow.

 

[caLLous]

Gaff, are you saying you have an extra audio track or the subs? In VLC you can expand the options (like an advanced mode) by clicking all in the bottom left of the Preferences window. Then expand video and click subtitles/osd and untick "enable sub-pictures". This will tell it specifically not to load *any* subs so you have to re-enable it if you're watching something foreign and fancy.

Don't know about WMP, haven't used it for at least 5 years.

You speak of Purevideo, Scouse? Bit shit that it only works on WMP but that appears to be the way it is...

 

[Scouse]

You speak of Purevideo, Scouse? Bit shit that it only works on WMP but that appears to be the way it is...

Mah - Core codec. It enables my nvidia ION to do 1080p video. HD actually runs better 'cause of the cuda processing than normal low-res xvid.