Blu-ray Subtitle Buttons not working.

marie-adler wrote on 12/28/2020, 4:42 PM

So I set it up correctly in DVD Architect program and it works in fine in preview. But when I make a Blu-ray ISO file and play it in VLC Media Player The second track subtitles doesn't work and the OFF button doesn't work. Only the first track subtitles work.

But when I make a regular DVD ISO the subtitles. work fine in VLC Media Player.

This leads me to think this is a DVD Architect Bug that is tied to making Blu-ray ISOs and has nothing to do with VLC Media Player or the subtitle file (.sub w/ number line in 1252 Western European Windows encoding).

Has anyone experience this issue? How do I fix it? Please and thank you.

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SporksonSporks wrote on 3/16/2026, 2:22 AM

Did you ever find a way to resolve this issue?

It appears that I'm dealing with a similar problem in 2026. Subtitle on/off buttons work just fine in the preview in DVDA7, but then when I create the ISO and test it in Cyberlink PowerDVD, my "subtitles on" button works to turn the subtitles on, but my "subtitles off" button doesn't work to turn the subtitles off.

In VLC, neither the "subtitles on" nor the "subtitles off" button works. I can use the usual VLC controls to turn the subtitles on and off.

I suppose I could delete these menu options entirely and just assume that viewers will know how to use their blu-ray player remotes, but a lot of people do like to turn subtitles on and off in the menu.

EricLNZ wrote on 3/16/2026, 5:05 AM

Does the same problem occur when you play a burnt Blu-ray disc in a Blu-ray player?

DMT3 wrote on 3/16/2026, 12:37 PM

If I remember correctly, the fix is to add an EMPTY subtitle track and rather than turn the Filled Sub Track off and on, it was to switch between the filled track and the empty track.

SporksonSporks wrote on 3/16/2026, 6:52 PM

Does the same problem occur when you play a burnt Blu-ray disc in a Blu-ray player?

I haven't tried burning a disc yet, although I'll probably get to that soon.

If I remember correctly, the fix is to add an EMPTY subtitle track and rather than turn the Filled Sub Track off and on, it was to switch between the filled track and the empty track.

I came to this notion myself yesterday, and it did indeed make the on/off buttons in my menu work in Cyberlink PowerDVD (for whatever reason, they still don't work in VLC). That said, ideally I wouldn't have to include an empty subtitle track, as this might be a bit confusing for people just using the subtitle button on their remotes.

I'm hoping not to waste too many discs (and I don't have any re-writable discs; a quick google search indicates that they may be pretty hard to come by, the dual layer 50gb ones anyway), but I'll probably look over my project a little more, make sure everything looks good, and then burn one of each version to see what happens with the discs in a player.

 

SporksonSporks wrote on 3/17/2026, 6:59 PM

Well, I went ahead and burned one disc with the single subtitle track setup (and of course first either screwed up some imgburn settings and/or made the mistake of having my burner plugged into the USB hub instead of directly into the back of my PC and thereby wasted the first disc I tried) and the "off" button does not work in the burned version (at least in my PlayStation 4).

So it's looking like having subtitle track 1 as my real track and subtitle track 2 as a dummy "off" track (which is oddly labeled "Afar" when I look at it in PowerDVD; I didn't specify the language for the track in DVDA7, and Afar is the second available language in DVDA7's alphabetical list; you'd think if anything it would default to Abkhazian, which is the first...) may be my only option here.

I guess it looks a little less professional to have a second subtitle track available that doesn't work, and it might be odd for viewers to try to turn the subtitles off using their remotes and see that the subtitles are set to "afar" (or some other language I specify) but the good news is that the rest of the blu-ray does look very good.

I'll have to think about this a bit because maybe it does look more professional to just not feature subtitles in the blu-ray menu and let those who want to see them use their remotes to access them instead?

It's too bad Magix never fixed this issue before they stopped supporting the software, because it is a pretty nice program as long as you know exactly how to use it and how to get around its errors and quirks (which for me showed up at basically every step along the way).

I guess that was kind of a backhanded compliment about this old program! Well, I'm left with mixed feelings about it. It's pretty cool to finally be basically almost done.