Global Subtitle On/Off

[Wade Coxon]

This is a request that has been requested by one or two users in the forum.

This involves the ability to turn on subtitles, and have this setting "stick" for all media and services until subtitles are then switched back off again.

Actual implementation may be tricky, but functionality is as follows:

1) A new setting for a subtitle button mode called "Global subtitle control - enable/disable" (or something along those lines).

2) A new setting (or leverage an existing setting) for "Preferred global subtitle language - English/Italian/etc/etc/etc".

3) Pressing the subtitle button would turn on subtitles for all live streams, recordings and other media files. It would enable the first available subtitle track containing the preferred language, and failing finding the preferred language, would use the first available subtitle track.

4) No matter which channel you switch to or what media you play, subtitles in your preferred language will be enabled.

5) Pressing the subtitle button again would then turn off subtitles in all live streams, recordings, and other media.

6) No matter which channel you switch to or what media you play, subtitles will be disabled.

7) If the user pops up the subtitle menu while viewing a live stream, recording or media file, they can temporarily override the global subtitle setting for as long as that service is being viewed only. ie. The minute you stop playback or change channel, the global setting re-asserts itself on the new service and remains in effect even when returning to the original service that was temporarily overridden.

Forum thread is here:

http://www.beyonwiz.com.au/forum/viewtopic.php?f=47&t=10011

[prl]

Why wouldn't a global subtitles system make use of the existing mechanism for subtitle language preferences in MENU>Setup>TV>Auto language? I can't see a good reason for another subtitle language setting. The existing settings allow a priority preference list of subtilte languages to be used.

In fact, much of what is asked for here is already implemented, but as a preference switch, not as a button press in, MENU>Setup>TV>Auto language>Prefer subtitles saved by service. Turning this off enables the use of the subtitles language preference settings for all channels and media.

[Wade Coxon]

As discussed already in the forum thread that was linked, you can feel free to use the existing preferred subtitle language setting. The point of line 2 was simply to have some way for the user to define what their preferred language is.

The same goes for the other settings. As long as the user has a way of turning on subtitles with a TEXT button press, and then continues to have subtitles on all media and services until they press the TEXT button again, that is what is being asked for.