Samsung TV Subs and player

[Eduardo Riffo]

Hello, yesterday I managed to install Jellyfin on my Samsung TV using the GitHub steps and Tizen Manager. Everything seems to work fine, except for the subtitles. The SRT subtitles are being detected by the app (or the TV in this case, I guess), but the subtitles that are embedded within the video files do not appear during the session. For example, subtitles that are inside an MKV video file. So, I was wondering if there is a way to fix this, or if I just have to upload SRT subs for every video and not depend on the subs that come by default within the files. 

Also i was wondering if i can change the player that the app uses. I don´t know if the app is using a player that comes with Jellyfin, or is using the TV native player.

Thanks in advance!

[TheDreadPirate]

Not all clients support embedded subs, but Jellyfin has two ways to address that. Extract subs on the fly or pre-extract subs.

In Dashboard > Playback there is a setting to enable on the fly subtitle extraction.

If you want to pre-extract subtitles, you would have to install the "Subtitle Extract" plugin. The plugin is in the official repo. After you install it, go to Dashboard > Scheduled Tasks and run the extraction task. The extracted subtitles are centrally stored in Jellyfin's data directory.