Normal for subtitles to alwaysbe on by default on burnt dvd?

[87path]

I have sucessfully burned my first dvd backup. It is a non-encoded split onto two dvds. Everything is fine except for the annoying fact that subtitles (or closed captioning) are on by default when the movie starts. I can just turn it off, but I'm curious as to why it is doing that. It has done it to both discs for this one movie, and to another test one of a different one.

[The Maynard]

My original DVD of The POstman does this too. It's probably just a setting that's on the disc that defaults to the subtitles being on.

[87path]

Doing more research on IFOedit, which I only use to generate new IFO's for the split chapters, it appears that there are features that can stip away the subtitle stuff.

Thanks for the response

[itsmeitsmeitsme]

It must have something to do with the dvd player .....i have had the same problem with my burnt dvd's on my daughters player(she has to turn subs off) but on my player the subs dont appear and both are apexs......

[dilligaf]

I found this over at doom9, will edit in the author's name when I find it.

I finally put together a guide to prevent the default subtitles from appearing automatically when you use the IFO Edit movie only method. I also added how to set your default audio stream. Hopefully this will help some people out.


1. First open the VTS_01_0.IFO file with IFO Edit v0.95.
2. Click on the VTS_PGCITI, the third line from the top, and you will see a sub-category.
3. Click on the VTS_PGC_1.
4. On the bottom window of IFO Edit, look for the description of “Size of Command table in bytes” or the address of [000000f4].
5. Right click on that line and click Add Precommand.
6. You will now see the precommand that you added and it will have a value of 00.
7. Double click on the precommand that you just created and you will get a HexEdit Module window.
8. Now you can edit the command to set your default audio streams and default subtitles.
9. To set the default audio language you would type in the following hex value:
“51 00 00 80 00 00 00”.
10. To keep your subtitles from turning on automatically you would type in the following hex value:
“51 00 00 00 9f 00 00 00”.
11. In this example I set the default audio language to the audio ID of 0x80 and the subtitles are set not to come on by default.
12. Finally, don’t forget to save your changes and be sure to keep a backup of your original IFO file.