If you want to disable subtitles in VLC Media Player, there are a few steps you can take. First, open the player and click on the three lines in the top left corner of the screen. This will show a list of options. On the left side of this list, you’ll find “Subtitles.” Click on it to open a submenu that will include several options. Option 1: Choose “Disable subtitles” to disable all subtitle support in VLC. Option 2: Choose “Disable subtitle support for specific files” to enable subtitles for specific files. This is useful if you want to use subtitles for videos that have been created with other media players, but not VLC. Option 3: Choose “Enable subtitles only for video files” to enable only subtitle support for video files. This is the most common option and will work with most media players.
Of course, you can always turn them back on if you want on an individual video basis.
Disable Subtitles
Head into the VLC preferences, and then click the All button at the bottom of the screen.
On the left-hand side, choose Video –> Subtitles/OSD, and then uncheck the boxes for “Autodetect subtitle files”, Enable sub-pictures, and On Screen Display. That should do it, unless the subtitles are forced in the video for some reason.
Note: Certain video formats like MKV can sometimes have subtitles enabled even though there isn’t a separate subtitles file. This is why you need to remove “Enable sub-pictures” as well, which totally disables the on-screen text. You can choose to only uncheck the autodetecting of subtitles instead if you’d prefer.
And of course, you can simply right-click on the video, head to Video –> Subtitles Track and then choose the subtitles if you still wanted them.
Note: this only works if the “enable sub-pictures” option is still enabled.
And thus ends the tale of disabling those fracking subtitles. Starbuck approves.
