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Few questions regarding subtitles - troothdotcom - 2023-11-21

I am a sucker for subtitles and would prefer if all my movies and shows had them but unfortunately not all my content has them so I have 2 questions regarding subtitles.

1. Besides going online and downloading and adding subtitles 1 by 1 which I have done for some content is there a plug in that actually works and is trustworthy?

2. When I have to use Handbrake to encode a movie for it to play on my devices I usually lose the subtitles that came with the file how can I go about keeping them in the encoding process is there a box I'm not checking?

thank you so much in advance for your help.

RE: Few questions regarding subtitles - tmsrxzar - 2023-11-21

https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/server/plugins/open-subtitles

https://handbrake.fr/docs/en/latest/advanced/subtitles.html

RE: Few questions regarding subtitles - ivan - 2023-12-10

(2023-11-21, 05:28 PM)tmsrxzar Wrote: https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/server/plugins/open-subtitles

https://handbrake.fr/docs/en/latest/advanced/subtitles.html

Hey there.

I have a few libraries that were previously being used with Plex, using a plugin called Subzero which would download subtitles automatically and save them under a folder called "sub" (inside each movie folder).
Example:
  • \docs\james bond behind the scenes\james-bond-bts.mkv
  • \docs\james bond behind the scenes\sub\james-bond-bts.en.srt

Plex would play the video and the subtitle fine.

Now that I'm on Jellyfin, I was wondering how I should deal with this situation. Naturally, Jellyfin completely ignores the "sub" folder. And because of this a lot of my content doesn't play with subtitles at the moment.
I also have titles where the subtitles (srt) simply exist side-by-side with the video file. In these cases, subtitles appear fine.

I have two questions:
  1. What can I do with my "sub" folders ? Is there any way Jellyfin can look into these folders when processing metadata and such for each movie?
  2. How does the Open Subtitles plugin work? Will it go though all my old content and try to download new subtitles for everything? (I would like to avoid this). Or will it process new content only, starting from the moment the plugin is installed?


RE: Few questions regarding subtitles - ivan - 2024-06-10

(2023-12-10, 08:07 PM)ivan Wrote:
(2023-11-21, 05:28 PM)tmsrxzar Wrote: https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/server/plugins/open-subtitles

https://handbrake.fr/docs/en/latest/advanced/subtitles.html
I have two questions:
  1. What can I do with my "sub" folders ? Is there any way Jellyfin can look into these folders when processing metadata and such for each movie?
  2. How does the Open Subtitles plugin work? Will it go though all my old content and try to download new subtitles for everything? (I would like to avoid this). Or will it process new content only, starting from the moment the plugin is installed?

Can anyone out there help me out ?

RE: Few questions regarding subtitles - Cognicom - 2024-06-11

(2023-11-21, 05:23 PM)troothdotcom Wrote: 2. When I have to use Handbrake to encode a movie for it to play on my devices I usually lose the subtitles that came with the file how can I go about keeping them in the encoding process is there a box I'm not checking?

In HandBrake, you'll have multiple tabs - Summary, Dimensions, Filters, Video, Audio, Subtitles, Chapters.

When preparing a file for processing, before adding it to the queue, go to the "Subtitles" tab to add in subtitles - if there are subtitles embedded in the source file, use "Add Track" to add those subtites; otherwise, click "Import Subtitle" to import them from an external .SRT/.ASS/etc. file.

You can also create custom presets and configure them to automatically import subtitles of specific languages.

RE: Few questions regarding subtitles - Cognicom - 2024-06-11

(2023-12-10, 08:07 PM)ivan Wrote: I have a few libraries that were previously being used with Plex, using a plugin called Subzero which would download subtitles automatically and save them under a folder called "sub" (inside each movie folder).
Example:
  • \docs\james bond behind the scenes\james-bond-bts.mkv
  • \docs\james bond behind the scenes\sub\james-bond-bts.en.srt

Plex would play the video and the subtitle fine.

Now that I'm on Jellyfin, I was wondering how I should deal with this situation. Naturally, Jellyfin completely ignores the "sub" folder. And because of this a lot of my content doesn't play with subtitles at the moment.
I also have titles where the subtitles (srt) simply exist side-by-side with the video file. In these cases, subtitles appear fine.

I have two questions:
  1. What can I do with my "sub" folders ? Is there any way Jellyfin can look into these folders when processing metadata and such for each movie?
  2. How does the Open Subtitles plugin work? Will it go though all my old content and try to download new subtitles for everything? (I would like to avoid this). Or will it process new content only, starting from the moment the plugin is installed?

  1. Jellyfin expects the subtitles to be in the same folder as the video file, so in the above example, moving james-bond-bts.en.srt into \docs\james bond behind the scenes\ will make the subtitles visible to Jellyfin. Consult this reference: https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/server/media/external-files/. Note that you'll need to do a library re-scan to get the server to notice them.
     
  2. Sorry, can't help you with that; I've never used it - but hopefully someone else will be able to help.