2025-02-07, 02:05 PM
(This post was last modified: 2025-02-07, 02:06 PM by visualblind. Edited 1 time in total.)
(2025-01-31, 02:05 AM)theguymadmax Wrote: The answers may vary depending on the client you're using—whether it's Android TV, Roku, WebUI (Chrome, Firefox), Jellyfin Media Player, or Swiftfin. Could you specify which one you're referring to?
Also, most clients will default to using external SRT files if they're available, and yes, this should prevent transcoding. One thing Dread forgot to mention is that the Android TV client also supports PGS subtitles without transcoding, but only for embedded PGS subtitles (it doesn't support external PGS files).
Personally, I use external SRT files for all my media to avoid transcoding on the clients I use.
So many different configurations it feels like a "Where's Waldo?" collage.
That's awesome that PGS is supposed to Direct Play now with jellyfin-web and Android TV. I have avoided anything related to PGS because in my mind it was always the case that it would cause transcoding and I have always thought "pictures of text" might take the cake for the dumbest idea I have heard. I'm sure there's lots of others I can't think of right now.
I haven't had any issues with any client (jellyfin-web, android tv, roku) doing Direct Play with the following subtitle configurations:
- Internal SRT inside MKV container
- External SRT alongside MKV container
- Internal mov_text (mp4 timed-text) inside MP4 container
- External SRT alongside MP4 container