Subtitles

[elephantLYFE]

What is the proper way? Or standard convention people follow?
I am looking here as reference: https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/server...rnal-files

My example is a movie, with all same language.
I have a movie I would like to include three subtitle files.
1. "Normal" Subtitles (Direct dialogue spoken)
2.  Forced Subtitles (only Subtitles for when character speaks in foreign language)
3.  SDH(deaf / hard of hearing) Subtitles ,(Includes descriptions of all dialogue & relevant noises to viewing experience)

[elephantLYFE]

Ah, seems I have found the proper way.

RESOLUTION:
I had my file tags in wrong order.
Double checked the documentation.
See attached screenshot.
Hopefully this post helps someone else in the future.

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One more note, Fixed my Default tag , to mark srt file i want as default.
See attached screenshot.

[ivan]

Hey there,

I'm a long time Plex user, recently changed to Jellyfin. So I'm a bit biased towards the way subtitle file naming has always worked in my Plex server.

Example:
- The-movie.mkv
- The-movie.srt
- The-movie.en.srt
- The-movie.fr.srt

In Plex, all of the above subtitles would load correctly. Many times I even had multiple subtitle files, and then I could select which one I wanted.

So I have a question for you, is this method valid in Jellyfin ?

It's not clear to me, from your second post, what is the correct way.

[TheDreadPirate]

Those file names should work as long as the Jellyfin user has permission to read them.

https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/server...nal-files/

[ivan]

Those file names should work as long as the Jellyfin user has permission to read them.

https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/server...nal-files/

Thank you for replying! I had a look at the link you shared and I'm OK.

My Jellyfin server is new. My stuff is working, mostly. There's some exceptions, but I think those are related to subtitles that exist within an MKV file. I also have a lot of content where the subtitles are in a subfolder (a legacy from Plex), and in those cases subtitles are not appearing. Naturally, I don't know which is which from the top of my head, so while watching some old content, just browsing and testing, some subtitles are not appearing.

So when I posted my question, it was more towards the op. I wanted to understand what was his point. But upon reading again and checking his screenshots, I got what he meant.

Before, this was not working for him:

• movie-title.forced.en.srt
  

Afterwards, he found this is the way:

• movie-title.en.forced.srt
  

Small but important detail that I will try to remember, in case I need forced or sdh subtitles (rarely do).