2026-02-16, 08:25 AM
I like Jellyfin a lot. I use it for family and share media to my home TVs. I detest subtitles and keep them turned off. This is especially true for the asian languages. Now more and more, I am finding movie and TV shows where the titles keep appearing. Yes I have them turned off. No they are not hard encoded. I first ran into this on the TV show 🐭Doc Martin🐭. Today I ran into it again where it was displaying Chinese. This was in my 4K copy of 💖Harry Potter💖. I like Harry Potter a lot and have all 8 movies in both 4K and 1080P.
This one file contains 5 sub tracks; 1st is English; remaining 4 are variations of Chinese. When I check my source files with VLC, I can confirm they are not hard coded and can be turned on and off. I decided to remove 4 of the sub tracks, leaving only the English. Again, it plays with VLC and can enable/disable the single English sub. I added this file back to Jellyfin, adding 1S (for one sub) to the beginning of the file name. I stripped the sub tracks a second time, this time removing all 5; and adding 0S to the file name (for zero sub). The subs appear with 1 or 4 in the file, they are gone only when I strip out all 5 of the sub tracks.
This makes 3 copies of the Harry Potter in the Jellyfin folder. 1 is 4K with subs, 2 is 4K with English, 3 is with no subs.
This problem is happening with Roku Premiere (3920X), with Roku Express (3930X), and TCL-Roku TV. I do not fell it is my devices at fault, but rather something in the Jellyfin server settings. I can provide a copy of the TV (or movie) file if anyone wants to test on their own system. Ideas? Suggestions? Thanks 🍑.
This one file contains 5 sub tracks; 1st is English; remaining 4 are variations of Chinese. When I check my source files with VLC, I can confirm they are not hard coded and can be turned on and off. I decided to remove 4 of the sub tracks, leaving only the English. Again, it plays with VLC and can enable/disable the single English sub. I added this file back to Jellyfin, adding 1S (for one sub) to the beginning of the file name. I stripped the sub tracks a second time, this time removing all 5; and adding 0S to the file name (for zero sub). The subs appear with 1 or 4 in the file, they are gone only when I strip out all 5 of the sub tracks.
This makes 3 copies of the Harry Potter in the Jellyfin folder. 1 is 4K with subs, 2 is 4K with English, 3 is with no subs.
This problem is happening with Roku Premiere (3920X), with Roku Express (3930X), and TCL-Roku TV. I do not fell it is my devices at fault, but rather something in the Jellyfin server settings. I can provide a copy of the TV (or movie) file if anyone wants to test on their own system. Ideas? Suggestions? Thanks 🍑.
