Subtitles

[billyblue]

Recently I've found some media with 30+ different subtitles.

Rather than cycling through each one, would it be possible to go to a drop down selection (similar to VLC's method)?

- Hopefully "Subtitles off" would always be at the top of the list!

[MrQuade]

Rather than cycling through each one, would it be possible to go to a drop down selection (similar to VLC's method)?

long-press the SUBTITLE button

[prl]

Rather than cycling through each one, would it be possible to go to a drop down selection (similar to VLC's method)?

long-press the SUBTITLE button

Which pressing the HELP button would have said, in the "Subtitles" section: "Subtitle selection" -> long SUBTITLE

[billyblue]

(I always forget about long press!)

Unfortunately long press doesn't seem to offer the simple "Subtitle off" option that I'm after.

Some more background: My hearing isn't perfect. Whilst I run with subtitles off more than on, for some reason playback of files starts with subtitles on - which I'm OK about. While it's usually only one press to turn them off when not needed, when there are multiple subtitles available then I have to do one short press per language to get to Subtitles off, so 30 is stretching it, esp when I accidentally skip past Subtitles off...

PRL: The Help button needs more research by me: it was a lot of presses to get to the subst button. Maybe long press there as well???

[MrQuade]

Unfortunately long press doesn't seem to offer the simple "Subtitle off" option that I'm after.

You can just click on the currently selected subtitle to turn it off. But yes, there is no option there to select "No Subtitle".

This seems to be a bit of an edge case though. 30 subtitle tracks is pretty extreme. Perhaps you could remux these media files and remove all the useless ones.

PRL: The Help button needs more research by me: it was a lot of presses to get to the subst button. Maybe long press there as well???

Not sure I am following there. How does a long-press help in this instance?

If you want to know the function of a specific button in the HELP screen, you can just press that button.
That doesn't help you if you want to know "how do I do X" though of course.
Remember that you can "Page up" and "Page down" in many menus with the LEFT and RIGHT buttons. and if those don't work, then it will be the CH+ or CH- buttons.

[prl]

PRL: The Help button needs more research by me: it was a lot of presses to get to the subst button. Maybe long press there as well???

As MrQuade says, you can scroll up/down the help page using LEFT/RIGHT.

If you press HELP while in the help page, it tells you that you can "Navigate up/down with the UP/DOWN buttons and page up/down with LEFT/RIGHT." The help screen even has its HELP button hint in the bottom left to let you know that there is help available for the help screen.

The help page doesn't use long-presses for any of its own functions, though it will jump to the entry for any long-press button if you long-press it in the help page.

For example, in the live TV or recording/media playback, long-SUBTITLE will take you straight to the "Subtitle selection" help entry under "Subtitles", but of course, you'd need to think of trying it. But a short press of SUBTITLE will take you to the "Cycle through subtitle streams" entry, and "Subtitle selection" is directly below it.

[adoxa]

playback of files starts with subtitles on

That would be Settings > TV > Subtitle settings > Automatically turn on external subtitles