Media Players Lack a Setting to Auto-Filter SDH Captions From Subtitles
Users watching content with external subtitle files can't easily tell if a track contains hearing-impaired (SDH) annotations like sound-effect descriptions before selecting it. Without an automatic filter, viewers must manually try multiple subtitle tracks by trial and error to find a clean, dialogue-only version.
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