How to hide subtitles. How to disable subtitles in kmplayer
Kmp is a popular media player that supports all common formats, both audio and video. The main features of the player are built-in codecs and flexible settings, and in addition, Kmp works with both internal and external plugins and filters, which helps flexible configuration parameters of played files.
Among the wide list additional features Kmp offers subtitle support. But they often interfere with viewing, so we suggest finding out how to disable subtitles in KMplayer.
What types of subtitles are there, and which of them can be disabled?
Subtitles are text accompanying video files that duplicates or complements the sound. Typically, subtitles are formatted as text in a medium-sized font, located at the bottom of the screen. Typically, subtitles are intended for people with hearing impairments. However, subtitles can be used to watch films, often anime, that do not have an audio translation. In many countries this is normal looking watching movies. Audio translations are done only for children's films and soap series. Sometimes subtitles are used to supplement audio information– director’s comments and explanations for understanding difficult passages.
Subtitles that accompany digital formats, can be embedded, where subtitles are superimposed on the original video material during the encoding process final video. These subtitles are not required additional conditions from players, but they reduce the quality of the final video files and cannot be disabled.
Subtitles prerendered represent ready-made images, which can be located either separately from the video or stored in the same file with it. These subtitles require support from the player, and are not very high quality. Their advantages are the trouble-free presentation of texts on various languages and the ability to turn them off.
Software or “soft” subtitles are text that most often has markup elements. Such subtitles place increased demands on the playback equipment, allow you to add effects in real time, and have the ability to turn them off. A serious disadvantage is the difficulty of displaying text in different languages due to the single-byte encoding.
Disabling subtitles
How to disable subtitles in kmplayer? For many, the presence of subtitles is a circumstance that is completely unnecessary and even irritating. On a psychological level, the viewer perceives subtitles as a distraction from the main action. As we said earlier, if the subtitles do not belong to the category of “built-in”, then they can be disabled.
How to disable subtitles in Kmp? For this purpose, you can use a combination of hot Alt keys+X.
The second option is to use the right mouse button: “Subtitles” - “Hide subtitles”. In the player Light Alloy This can be done using the button at the bottom of the screen. If this button is active, the subtitles work; if not, they are disabled. The “S” key has the same function.
Sometimes the options listed do not work. In a universal way getting rid of subtitles is to search for files in the folder with video files and have extensions: “ssa”, “sub”, “srt”. These files can be moved to their folders or simply deleted.
So, removing subtitles is a possible and simple process if they do not belong to the category of “hardwired”.
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KMPlayer is a powerful, universal program to play almost any multimedia file- videos, music and even pictures. Among the long list of additional features and advantages of the player is support for subtitles. However, often they only interfere with viewing, and it becomes necessary to turn them off. But before moving on to a review of ways to remove subtitles, you need to understand what they are, what they are and how to turn them off.
Definition and classification
Subtitles are text accompanying a video file intended to duplicate or supplement the sound. They are usually in medium sized font and located at the bottom of the screen.
Types of subtitles:
- sewn in (they are also hard). They are applied during encoding of the final material and cannot be disabled.
- pre-rendered. They are stored separately from the video, but can also be located in the same file as it. An obvious advantage of this type of subtitles is the ability to remove and present text in different languages.
- software (aka soft). Represented as text, often with markup elements. They also turn off without problems.
As you can see, deleting subtitles is possible if they are not embedded. How? More on this below.
4 ways to disable subtitles in KMPlayer
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Method one. To remove subtitles, use the key combination “Alt+ X”.
Method two. Right-click on the “Subtitles” command and uncheck the “Show/Hide Subtitles” command.
Method three. Find a file with the extension “ssa”, “sub” or “srt” in the video folder and delete it.
Method four. Enter the menu KMPlayer settings by pressing the F2 key. Select “Filters”, check the box next to “Disable subtitle downloader”.
So, turning off subtitles is, in principle, a simple process if you know exactly what to do.
For the most impatient, the immediate answer is how to enable or disable subtitles in KMPlayer - you need to press the key combination Alt+X. There are several types of subtitles, let's figure out how the player “sees” them and how it is more convenient for the user to manage them.
Domestic
Contained as additional element in a video file (usually in a mkv container) along with an audio track and the image itself. One file may contain several texts: different languages, as well as options for full and incomplete subtitles (they can only translate on-screen captions or individual dialogues).
To see a list of available subtitles, open the movie in KMPlayer and right-click on the window (or press F2). IN context menu Select Subtitles → Subtitle Languages. If the video file contains subtitles, you will see a list of them. For example, in this film there are four versions of the text: in Russian, Ukrainian, and also in English in two versions (regular and for the hearing impaired).
You can switch between them by pressing Ctrl+L. If you have selected/changed the subtitle track, but there are still no subtitles, then this means that you have disabled their display in KMPlayer. To fix the problem, in the same section of the menu, click on “Show/hide subtitles” or the hotkey Alt+X already mentioned above.
External
Even if the video file itself does not contain subtitles, they can still be included using separate document. It can be in .srt, .ass, .ssa and other formats. Usually external subtitles (if necessary) are downloaded directly with the film, in other cases they can be found separately on the Internet at specialized resources. To connect external file subtitles in the menu section described above, click “Open subtitles” and select the desired file (usually located in the same folder as the video).
You can connect external subtitles and more in a simple way- simply by dragging the subtitle file directly into the KMPlayer window with the movie running. To display text, viewing subtitles, of course, must be included.
Sewn in
The most unpleasant type of subtitles, which, in fact, are part of the video. They are not in the list, there is no way to disable them. They are often called hardsub.
is an excellent video player for your computer. It may well replace others media applications: watching a video, changing viewing settings (contrast, color, etc.), changing playback speed, selecting audio tracks. One of the features of the application is to add subtitles to the film, which are located in the folder with video files.
Subtitles in videos can be of two types. Built into the video itself, that is, initially superimposed on the picture. Then it will not be possible to remove such caption text, unless it is blurred with special video editors. If the subtitles are small text file special format, lying in the folder with the film, then disabling them will be very easy.
To remove subtitles in KMPlayer, you first need to launch the program.
Open the movie file. To do this, click the button in the upper left part of the window and select “Open files”.
In the explorer that appears, select the desired video file.
The film should open in the program. Everything is fine, but you need to remove unnecessary subtitles.
To do this, click right key mouse anywhere on the program window. The settings menu will open. In it you need the following item: Subtitles> Show/Hide subtitles.
Select this item. Subtitles will have to turn off.
Mission accomplished. A similar operation can be performed by pressing the key combination “Alt+X”. To turn on subtitles, just select the same menu item again.
Enabling subtitles in KMPlayer
Turning on subtitles is also quite simple. If the film already has built-in subtitles (not “drawn” on the video, but built into the format) or the file with subtitles is in the same folder as the film, then you can enable them in the same way as we disabled them. That is, either by using the Alt+X key combination or by selecting the “Show/Hide subtitles” submenu item.
If you downloaded subtitles separately, you can specify the path to the subtitles. To do this, you need to go again to the “Subtitles” submenu section and select “Open subtitles”.
After that, indicate the path to the folder with subtitles and click on required file(*.srt file format), then click “Open”.
That's all, now you can activate subtitles using the Alt+X key combination and enjoy watching.
Now you know how to remove and add subtitles in KMPlayer. This can be useful, for example, if you don’t know English very well, but want to watch the film in the original and still understand what it’s about.
