VLC File Playing Question

[m1lk3y]

I'm brand new here, so forgive me if any of this doesn't make sense, but I was hoping I would be able to find the right answer here after hours of unsucessful web searching. So I have a specific movie file on an external hard drive that I was watching today with VLC, and at the very beginning and end of the movie, there's some text that pops up that I've been trying to figure out how to get rid of. It's not the title or any metadata that I can seem to find either. I've tried other media players including CyberLink PowerDVD, Windows Media Player, and even Media Player Classic and I don't get the text pop-up, so it only seems to be in VLC. I tried changing the file name, and for some odd reason, the text stopped popping up, but as soon as I change the file name back, the text pops up again. It feels like there's a program or something running, or maybe something embedded in the .mp4 file that is searching for the specific file name. I've used the everything program and even process explorer but can't seem to find anything associated with it. Maybe I'm just looking too hard, or not searching for the right thing? Anyone have a suggestion? And again, sorry if this is in the wrong thread, forums aren't usually my thing...

[TempestCatto]

Are you talking about the title of the file that pops up when you first start a clip? Or do you have subtitle files in the same folder as that movie clip? Renaming the file of the movie may have stopped the subtitle files from seeing it.

[.Apex.]

@m1lk3y

that's most likely the subtitles, if there's an SRT file in the same folder that the movie is in, and it has the same exact name, then VLC would automatically enable that subtitle file.

 

try removing the subtitles and see if it changes anything

[m1lk3y]

I knew I was thinking too much into it. It was the subtitles... Thanks for the help...