Disable all subtitle

[Ростислав Лесовий]

I've recently started using Jellyfin and have a problem with subtitles... I just can't disable them on my TV even when they are OFF in the menu. From what I understood they are burned in because my TV doesn't support their format or something. I have nothing against video transcoding but I would like to disable all subtitles everywhere without manually stripping them from each file.

There must be some setting that I just can't find, this should be quite basic functionality...

[TheDreadPirate]

If the subtitle is marked as "forced", AFAIK every client will honor that tag and use the subtitles regardless of your settings. If the subtitles are "forced", you can use ffmpeg or MKVToolnix to remove the "forced" tag.

[alleycat]

I, for myself and three users, just went into each user profile settings list. Those that didn't want them I set "Subtitle mode" to none.

[syd_reddit]

I have this issue too - setting to None for IPTV streams still shows subtitles/closed captions.

Is there a workaround eg in the stream definition file?

[onemorejeff]

I have the same problem. I wish someone would post the fix please?

[theguymadmax]

There are no subtitle controls for livetv sources, either on or off.

[bitmap]

I, for myself and three users, just went into each user profile settings list. Those that didn't want them I set "Subtitle mode" to none.

This is the way. WebOS and Roku both respect this setting as far as I know. Default and forced subtitles are OFF always unless you turn them on.

[TheMav]

Using IOS devices there's absolutely NO settings I can set regarding subtitles to stop them playing.  I have turned them off in the player, turned them off in the user settings in the App - no difference whatsoever.

The only way I can stop them playing is to delete the external SRT files for each episode.  This is not helpful as I may have other members of the family that need them when we are watching collectively on the smart TV via Roku streaming stick or LG TV Apps.

Why this is an issue is that when there's only me watching on an iPad, the subs are so large that it takes up a third of the screen, hence the annoying issue here and why I want to disable them.  Is this an IOS App issue or something in the NAS Jellyfin Server?  As said these are SRT files and not embedded.  Why is this so difficult to just stop the bloody things from displaying?  Having to copy them all back again after I've finished is not practical. 

If the subtitle is marked as "forced", AFAIK every client will honor that tag and use the subtitles regardless of your settings.  If the subtitles are "forced", you can use ffmpeg or MKVToolnix to remove the "forced" tag.