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Default Subtitles - pxr5 - 2024-05-28
This is just a niggle really. The majority of my media I try to make sure that subtitles are embedded. I also have the Opensubtitles plugin pulling subs, which is great. But when playing back the external subs are loaded by default. Sometimes the external subs do not align with my media.
So two things really:
1. Is it at all possible that the Opensubtitles scan does not download subs if the media already has embedded subtitles.
2. That the default embedded sub is selected on playback rather than external one.
i know it's easy to quickly change the subs manually but I to have to do this every time with media with embedded subs. I'd prefer Jellyfin to work the way Kodi does, embedded subtitles are loaded initially. If there are no subtitles at all then I quickly do a download from the Opensubtitles addon which gives me the option of choosing which subs to use from a list, changing until correct.
Thanks
RE: Default Subtitles - Host-in-the-Shell - 2024-05-28
I believe the reason why external subs are preferred is because they can avoid transcoding and, by extension tone mapping, which can be taxing on server hardware and outright incompatible with certain clients.
What you can do to avoid downloading misaligned subs is to edit the library (for say, movies or tv shows) in your server's dashboard, and under subtitle downloaders, select the option labelled "Only download subtitles that are a perfect match for video files".
RE: Default Subtitles - pxr5 - 2024-05-29
^ That makes sense thanks. I suppose changing "Only download subtitles that are a perfect match for video files" will have no effect on previously downloaded subs.
RE: Default Subtitles - Host-in-the-Shell - 2024-05-29
I've never tried it, since I had perfect match subs enabled from the start, but I'm guessing no. If you don't care about having to transcode you can enable instead "Skip if the video already contains embedded subtitles", but I figure it won't do anything about already downloaded subtitles either.