Android vs Android TV Subtitle Support

[theguymadmax]

So I guess I have two questions here:

1. Is it possible for the Android TV app display the subtitles without transcoding?
   
2. Is there a way use extracted subtitles instead of transcoding the video?
   

1. No, ASS subtitles on the AndroidTV client need to be burnt-in and will trigger a transcode.
2. If you use external SRT subtitles and they have the same filename as the video file, you can play without transcoding. This does not work for ASS subtitles.