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If someone watching Netflix on your account used soft subtitles to watch a foreign film, you might feel puzzled when you again open it and find the action covered up by unnecessary yellow text. Under this condition, you need to remove or turn off closed subtitles/captions on Netflix Apple TV, Roku TV, Samsung smart TV, etc. Fortunately, we have your demand covered here, irrespective of what device you're using.
Check your Netflix app version first before you enable closed subtitles or captions on Netflix movie or TV shows, since different Netflix app versions vary in some minor settings. Follow the specific guide based on your application version.
Providing, unluckily, Netflix subtitles are still missing or not working on your TV or smartphones, follow the workarounds mentioned in this Netflix subtitles troubleshooting article to make subtitles right.
Once in a while, you need to change your closed subtitles or captions on Netflix Apple TV, Roku TV, Samsung TV or mobile devices. Generally, Netflix shows the 5-7 most relevant languages grounded on your location and language settings. Therefore, you can change soft subtitles on Netflix among the highly related 5-7 languages. Steps are:
Step 3. Tap Dialog icon at either the top or bottom of the user interface. Unlike mobile device iPhone iPad or Android, language options on your smart TVs might appear at the bottom without the dialog icon. In such case, choose from the languages shown or tick Other to see all available language options.
Note: subtitles on, off and change are only applied to soft subtitles (aka. closed subtitles). As for hardcoded subtitles, it's out of the question to turn on/off hardcoded subtitles on Netflix, let alone change subtitle. Hardcoded subtitles (aka. open subtitles) are embeded into movie or TV show video image. They're integrated with video image, not a separate subtitle track file. If you insist on removing hardcoded subtitles, you have to rely on a video subtitle remover software to crop subtitles from video frame one by one.
Step 2. The subtitle option you previously chose will pop up. Select the Off option under Subtitles. So far, you successfully remove subtitles from Netflix movies or TV shows on Apple TV temporarily.
Indeed, knowing how to remove subtitles from your shows is a valuable Netflix tip for Windows users. It's important to note that, unlike the mobile app, Netflix for Windows doesn't automatically pause your video when you're adjusting the subtitles. If every second of your show is crucial to you, remember to press pause before beginning the above procedure. The process is straightforward, similar to the mobile app:
Extended Info: For subtitle options, the Caption Settings menu offers you with 3 different options to adjust the subtitles to your preference: Digital Caption Options, Caption Mode, and Separate Closed Caption.
If you follow the above steps to turn subtitle options from On to None on your Samsung Smart TV, but subtitles still won't turn off, you're then highly suggested to try another device to stream Netflix content. Because this problem only occurs on older versions of the Netflix app, disable Netflix closed captions or subtitles by using an alternate device.
Click here to see how to turn subtitles off on Netflix PS4, Xbox, Blu-ray player, as well as Mac/PC. Meanwhile, visit Netflix official help center to get more effective solutions to subtitles not turning off on Apple TV, Xbox One and other devices.
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Using the Roku app I can at least get 4k HDR, but I am severely hard of hearing so I need subtitles or captions. They are available for these episodes, but when I go to options/accessibility there is no way to turn them on (or off).
Thanks for the info. Pressing up was what I had actually thought at first and tried that. That would be the most logical, as when casting to TV using airplay that menu appears at the top of the screen.
However, today by accident I pressed the down button (I was actually trying to pressed the middle button and missed it, and low in behold the down button caused the subtitles and audio menu to appear at the top of the screen. Maybe my Roku is different from others, I have no idea. Your answer makes the most sense to me, but for some reason my Roku (Ultra 2018) only responds to the down button.
I use Apple TV+ app on my TCL Roku TV. What I have found is that the default captioning is set to "English SDH" but only half the captions display with this setting. I have to hit the down arrow, then down into the subtitle menu and select "English CC" for the captioning to work properly. My big complaint is that every time I exit the app and go back in, I have to perform this same step. The app Settings don't seem to retain my selection. I don't have to do this step every time I launch other video apps (Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Disney Channel, etc.). Apple needs to enable the option to select a CC/Subtitle setting that does not reset to the default every time the app launches. (I'm also not happy that if I pause for more than 2 or 3 minutes, it kicks me out of the video stream I'm playing and I have to resume the video and re-select my caption options.)
I am not sure if it the back button or the back directional button on the Roku3 remote, but when I rewind, it enables Closed Captioning. I need to hit the * and choose disable CC.
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This was documented in another post as well. Mine does the same thing, but turns off after about 10 seconds. As the other post suggested, this might be a roku feature as Netflix app does the same thing.
Ok.. I did some checking and I think I found the solution. There is a global setting in Roku that causes this. Go to Settings -> Captions -> Captions mode. There you will see the three options. "Instant Replay" was checked on mine by default. Check "Off". That should clear it up.
Whenever I watch some of my TV series on Emby the subtitles are on by default and I have to turn them off. This works fine while viewing from a web browsers but the Emby Roku app will not turn them off. The subtitles are not burned in, btw.
While watching TV series that have the subtitles available in the .m4v file, they still default to "on / english" While viewing in a web browser I have to turn them off for each episode but the Emby Roku app won't let me. On the Roku app, when I choose to subtitles "off" the screen goes blank for a few seconds then the video starts again with the subtitles back on.
I have to exit the video, go back to the "season" view, choose the same episode, then try disabling subtitles again. It will not let me disable them while watching one episode after another- At the end of one episode, I have to exit back to the season view and then choose the next episode manually if I want to be able to turn the subtitles off.
Check the Emby USER subtitle preferences. You can find these by clicking your profile icon in the top right corner and selecting the subtitles option. From there you can change the subtitle mode from always to something else like default or off. You can still enable subtitles during playback at any moment.
I think that did it Samel! I was fiddling with the SERVER settings, not the USER settings. It seems to work on my work laptop while logged into my "new" Linux Emby server via the web interface. I'll check it tonight on my "old" windows server / roku tonight.
I had, but I didn't realise until now that it changed when you selected a different option. I did think it was rather confusing and unhelpful initially, because I thought it was giving an overview of the various options.
Am I right in thinking 'Smart' and 'Default' work exactly the same unless the audio is in the preferred language, in which case Default turns non-forced subs on and Smart turns them off? I assume Smart respects forced subs in the main audio language?
Is it possible to have the subtitle preference saved per video? Smart mode would work for me except Emby doesn't know the audio language of some videos. In these cases it is forcing subtitles. If I could just have the mode set to "No Subtitles" and then for the few videos where I need them I can go in and pick the subtitle and have it stick that would be ideal. I believe this is how Plex handles it. Currently it seems like the subtitle selection (in the web GUI) for a particular video is only applied if you start playback immediately. The next time you come in it changes back to whatever Emby thinks it should be. Am I missing a setting where I can tell Emby to not manage my subtitles for me?
It does that no matter which mode you select? Here is an example where I have "No subtitles" selected. When I change the subtitle for a video it isn't saving. Also whenever I change the mode it changes the subtitle selection for all my videos to match the new mode.
Aha, I had previously tried playing and checking to see if it stuck but I think I was still on "No subtitles". Can I suggest allowing it to be remembered when you set it rather than when you play it? When I add an item I'm not always playing it right away so it would be more convenient to just set it after the add. For now I can set it to smart and do a once over and remember to hit play after my change. Thanks!
Netflix is undoubtedly the most widely used streaming service in the US. Most of the consumers looking to purchase the Roku 2 are probably looking for just a Netflix streamer. Keeping this in mind, we have a whole section devoted to the Netflix streaming experience.
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