Is there a way to disable the “Subtitles on Demand” feature? I can’t seem to find one.
It’s a great feature for many, I’m sure, but I don’t particularly need it or want it. Probably 95% of my media has subtitles that I have OCR’d from Blu-Ray and DVD, or found on the internet and ensured they were synced properly before I added them.
Everyone I share with prefers English as their subtitle language, except my daughter-in-law who uses Traditional Chinese if she is the only one watching a movie. I don’t think the feature has ever actually found a subtitle for her, apparently Chinese subtitles are a rare breed. I usually get her to go to a Chinese web site that’s all in a language I don’t understand, and we download a subtitle I can add if she desperately needs a Chinese subtitle for a movie.
I understand they are not taking up gigabytes of space, and are deleted when a different subtitle is chosen, but it is my server and hard drive, and not something downloaded to the client. If you happen to have young grandchildren, who just like to make the TV do funny stuff, they can download a subtitle in a foreign language just because they can. While it did provide an hours worth of entertainment as they took turns reading the foreign language subs, it annoyed me a little stuff was being downloaded to my computer without my consent.
It’s definitely not an end of the world crisis if there isn’t a way disable this feature, or if it’s impossible to implement that option.
If that’s impossible, how about at least removing the option to search for subtitles for “Home Movies” etc? We know that opensubtitles.org does not have a match for “Grandaughter’s Birthday Party” and there’s no point in even looking. The problem, of course, is anyone who has placed all of their movies in an “Other Videos” library would be annoyed if the feature didn’t work any more.
