topic Re: Subtitles on recordings in Android TV

Subtitles on recordings

khallergard — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 08:19:14 GMT

Would like our recordings to have subtitles (with the possibility to switch off). But would like live TV to be without subtitles, without having to keeping switching them off with the action menu every time you change channel.

Re: Subtitles on recordings

royabrown2 — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 16:04:48 GMT

@khallergard

Thanks for letting us know.

How would you envisage the UI for this being arranged?

Re: Subtitles on recordings

khallergard — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 16:52:34 GMT

@royabrown2 Thought there might be some settings. Understand from your post that there are not

Re: Subtitles on recordings

khallergard — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 17:25:38 GMT

@royabrown2 Maybe a toggle under the TimerREC menu

Re: Subtitles on recordings

daveyh64 — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 17:38:40 GMT

What model of Sony TV do you have.

What do you mean by the Action menu.

If subtitles are not set to display for live TV when you switch channels they should remain off.

Settings> Channels & Input> Preferences> Subtile settings> Broadcast> Subtitle (Off/ Basic or Hard of hearing)

The above path is for my Sony TV, yours may be slightly different depending on model.

Pressing the subtitle button on the remote control should turn them on.

I take it you are using the TV to record programmes using an attached HDD.

If so pressing the subtitle button on the remote will either switch on or off the subtitles on your recordings.

If you are using another device to record programmes subtitles will be controlled via that devices own remote control.

Re: Subtitles on recordings

khallergard — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 19:33:36 GMT

@daveyh64 Thanks! My TV model is KD-45XD8088 from 2016. Only recently have we started using the recording feature, using a 256 GB usb-stick

Yes I can get to the settings of subtitles: Off/Basic/Hard of hearing.

When using Off there are no subtitles on live TV or on recordings

When using Basic all recordings have subtitles which cannot be switched off, and LiveTV shows subtitles, which can be switched off for the particular channel. Changing channel shows subtitles again etc.

My remote does not have subtitle key. Instead there is the Action Menu in the direction-UP position which allows navigating to the subtitle choice Off/Language (this does not work on recordings). A subtitle key would make it less cumbersome.

Re: Subtitles on recordings

khallergard — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 19:50:08 GMT

Remote model RMF-TX2OOE

Re: Subtitles on recordings

khallergard — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 20:00:16 GMT

Found the subtitle button on the remote "...." bottom left above HELP! Less cumbersome! Thanks!

Re: Subtitles on recordings

daveyh64 — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 00:22:13 GMT

The standard Sony symbol for the subtitles key is a white box with four dots at the bottom,

this is available on most if not all Sony remote controls.

Good you have found it now.

If you have set subtitles to Off under your Action menu settings, this is now your default for the TV press the subtitle button to activate/ deactivate the subtitles.

This should work for both live TV and recordings you have made to your USB stick.

(I can certainly switch subtitles on or off on recordings I have made via attached HDD using the subtitles button,

my /TV is different and younger than yours so not sure if this was a feature added later, you will need to try it out.)

If you have set subtitles to Basic or Hard of hearing under the Action menu you can turn the subtitles off or back on again using the subtitle button on the remote control.

Re: Subtitles on recordings

royabrown2 — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 09:03:40 GMT

@khallergard

I see that @daveyh64 has largely sorted you out. It’s not that subtitles can’t be done; as you have perhaps now found, if a programme has subtitles and you record it, the subtitles are recorded as well, whether you have them turned on or not.

So what you wanted comes down to saying “If watching a recorded programme, then by default show subtitles; if watching a live programme then by default don’t show them”. Which would be a nifty bit of automation if it could be done, but is a fairly unusual request.

Hopefully though, now you have found the subtitles toggle on the remote, turning them on and off for yourself according to what you are watching will be so straightforward that you don’t, after all, need that last little bit of automation to do what you feared would be much more cumbersome manually.

Re: Subtitles on recordings

khallergard — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 09:58:22 GMT

@daveyh64 thanks, the Action menu gives choice Off/English (just like the Subtitle button), not Off/Basic/Hard of hearing, which is a much longer path in the Settings menu to set the default. Having set Basic as default, I can only toggle off with the button or the Action menu. Off is not remembered when changing channel or going back to a channel previosly turned off.

I was glad to find that I can turn the subtitles off on recordings

@royabrown2 thanks, very good summary of my issue

Re: Subtitles on recordings

khallergard — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 21:37:53 GMT

Now realize that I had completly misunderstood subtiles! SORRY!

I thought that to record with subtiles you had to set the default to Basic subtitles. The reason was that I was only aware of the Action menu as a means to switch subtitles on or off. And the Action menu for recordings did not have subtiles as a option.

Later I discovered the remote's subtitles button. Unlike the Acton menu it works with recordings to toggle subtitles on/off. Thus default settings should not be Basic but Off! SORRY!0