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I don't know if there is some place to do this, but I have not found it.
I would like setting in System-Settings-Videos-Subtitles to turn off Subtitles unless I specifically turn them on for a particular video.
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When watching, press OK, click the audio icon, turn off subtitles, scroll down and save as default. Done.
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This is one of those settings that really should be in both the player settings and the actual settings under Subtitles. I don't know if that's possible with the way Kodi works, but it would be a huge usability improvement.
Heck, really, anything that can be set as default should be in both places.
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Instead settings there preferred subtitle language with option for OFF
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Ah yeah, I keep forgetting that the track preference can also turn off subs.
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2016-07-25, 04:59
(This post was last modified: 2016-07-25, 04:59 by aptalca.)
That is something I really think should be off by default. It is one of the first things I turn off, but every time I do a fresh install I forget about it and it really gets me
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The assumption is that if your videos have a subtitle track then you probably want the subtitle track. Otherwise the user wouldn't add a subtitle track when they rip it, or delete the sub files if they get it from "other sources", etc.
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It is one button press on any decent remote.
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I'm fully aware of the many situations were subtitles are used. It's not a matter of what is 100% universal, but a matter of what is a reasonable default for the people who make Kodi (I would say "for most users", but there really isn't any data for that).
It would be a bad assumption if there was no way to turn them off by default after setting up Kodi. As nickr keeps pointing out, it's once and done. The same can be said for having multiple sub tracks, where you might need to indicate sub preference. A proper MKV or MP4 can even define sub tracks without having any of them enabled by default, in a totally default Kodi setup.
In the end, I could see it go either way. I'm just explaining the reason I discovered when I had looked into this.