

General > Remember settings for all files will remember subtitles, audio tracks, and the position the video was stopped the last time.General > Multimedia Engine enables you to switch between MPlayer or mpv as the media player used by SMPlayer.Here is a quick selection of the most important ones: The preferences may overwhelm you at first as they provide you with a truckload of options.Open the preferences with the shortcut Ctrl-P, or by selecting Options > Preferences. ass, I'm not using Ubuntu at this moment, I think in Preference > Subtitle > there's an option called Autoload subtitle, under it there's a drop down list, with 2 options, The same name as the movie and the other is First available subtitle (sorry, I can't recall exactly the wordings), and I chose the same name as the movie (my subtitle and movie has the same name), but whenever I'm clicking a movie, it came up showing subtitle NONE, so it seems to me that the configuration in Preference is not working, even when there's an embeded subtitle, when I click subtitles (the right most option in the menu), it showed the embeded one, and my external, but none of them are chosen.If this is your first time using the media player, you may want to check out the options to configure some settings there.

Thanks SeijiSensei for your reply, sorry for the misunderstanding, what I meant is loading an external subtitle file, such as. I'm using 16.1.0 from Doug McMahon's PPA for Trusty (), but I don't recall this behavior changing over the years that I have used SMPlayer. Is that what you mean by "autoloading," or are you talking about loading separate subtitle files in a format like. Sometimes I have to select the subtitle track manually from the drop-down box at the top of the SMPlayer screen. mkv file, it usually plays the Japanese audio and shows the English subtitles. I also have the audio and subtitle tracks set to 1. In Options > Preferences > General > Preferred Audio and Subtitles I have "jp|jpn" in the Audio box and nothing in the Subtitles box. Usually you don't need to do anything other than open the file in SMPlayer. Most Matroska (.mkv) files have the subtitles embedded within the container along with the video and audio.
