Android TV version 0.17

[Andokai]

This may be a niche problem, and one that might be on the radar, or is just a configuration setting I have wrong. When attempting to use PGS Forced subtitles (Mainly for anime where it displays the signs and the song lyrics) do not work in the 0.17.x android tv client. I think it may trace back to the removal of LibVLC as a video playback engine, but is there a way to get them to work, or do I just not use them for now?

You need to enable transcoding so that they can be burned into the video.
They don't work with direct playing because the ATV player (Exoplayer) doesn't support PGS subs directly.

This not true, PGS subs are supported by exoplayer, see https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-and.../pull/2690

Yes, but why do they not work for the 'Forced' version of them? The standard PGS subtitles, those with all conversations, signs and songs, work fine. But when I attempt to load in only the "Songs & Signs" subtitle track I get "Unable to load Subtitle" error. It seems to happen mostly on items from a Funimation release. For I was able to have them work on a Demonslayer Episode (Mind you, idk if there are actually anything encoded for that particular episode) which is an Aniplex of America release. I tried this on 3 episodes. (Demonslayer ep 8, Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood Ep 2, and Bungo Stray Dogs ep 2). All are direct playing according to my dashboard, but the "Songs & Signs" Subtitle track (Which is labeled 'Forced, and Default' for all 3 episodes) would not play at all on Brotherhood and Bungo. However, when playing Demonslayer, when the Title card appeared, so did the Subtitle translation for it. Im attaching the most recent log file, idk if it will help, but maybe it will show why. Thanks so much for all the help though! This has been really informative on my end.