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When I play videos in mplayer it sometimes shows subtitles. How can I turn them off?

And can I change mplayer.conf so they are off by default?

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  • Depends on the video, some videos have subtitles hard-coded in (i.e. overlayed on the picture, won't remove). Others have a separate subtitle track (external file)... Others still may have a track encoded in it that have them. But v is the keyboard toggle during playback. Types 2/3 this should work for - type 1 you are "SOL".
    – nerdwaller
    Jul 3, 2013 at 21:56
  • Thanks v worked to turn them off. Jul 3, 2013 at 22:52
  • Glad to help, moved it to an answer (as it should have been originally).
    – nerdwaller
    Jul 4, 2013 at 1:17

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Try hitting the v on your keyboard.

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There are also CLI options -nosub (for disabling subtitles that come within an .mkv, for example) and -noautosub (for disabling external subtitles from a separate file).

So, to run a video without any subtitles, you can do the following:

mplayer -noautosub -nosub filename.mkv
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Depends on the video:

  1. Some videos have subtitles hard-coded in (i.e. overlayed on the picture, won't remove).
  2. Others have a separate subtitle track (external file)...
  3. Others still may have a track encoded in it that have them.

But v is the keyboard toggle during playback. Types 2/3 this should work for - type 1 you are "SOL".

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  • To complete your original ask… add the following line to your ~/.mplayer/config file… nosub = true. This will prevent the subtitles from being loaded at all, so you won’t have to type ‘v’.
    – mockman
    Dec 1, 2013 at 19:00
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As @Devid said, v is the shortcut for it. But you could also change the mpv.conf file:

sub-visibility=no # Disable display of subtitles, but still load them if available.

Sources:

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    This should have been the accepted answer. Dec 22, 2022 at 13:31

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