Issue with subtitles aka "Teletext" in DVR streams/recordings

Before the Plex-DVR-age I always used the setting “subtitle mode” → “show with foreign audio” which just worked great with movies and series.

But with this setting DVR streams and recordings of a lot of private TV channels in Germany (like RTL or SAT.1) then don’t show the actual video but then are completly overlayed with this annoying “Teletext” - some kind of weird form of fast switching “information” pages designed in the 1980s which are obviously misintepreted as necessary subtitles by Plex.

The workaround to set the “subtitle mode” to “manually selected” helps in this case - the “Teletext” bulls* disappears. But then all essential subtitles in movies and series won’t - of course - show up automatically any longer. Before starting any media I always have to manually check if there is a forced subtitle in a movie/show that I need to understand the context. This is really annoying and when using the “continue watching” function it is literally a show stopper when the aliens in Star Trek Discovery start babbling - with my Klingon not being that adequate ;D

Would it be possible to implement a separate “subtitle mode DVR” or just lease this setting off for DVR streams/recordings completly? Because in the last 30 years I actually never needed this function when watching television - as neccessary subtitles are always hardcoded respectively burned-in - for a good reason.

Plex-Team, please help me out here! … Because my Klingon won’t improve that much soon (I guess) and every episode I manually have to adjust the subtitle setting just forces me one step closer to disabling the DVR-function completly - which actually has become one of my favorite functions on Apple TV.

I second that!
It would be great, if there was a comfy solution to this.

Good point!

Good point ! Would love to see that.

Hey, is there any Update to this? It would be great if it was possible to select the subtitle selection seperatetly for Live TV/PlexDVR and not in one Setting for the whole server.

Also it would be great if the Subtitle Selection also could be done on a “Library” Basis.
For example I watch alot of Anime where i wanna use Subtitles always, but in my Movie Library I would like to never use Subtitles, but since there is only a Plex Server wide Setting thats not possible yet.

I would love to get a response to this, this can’t be so hard to differentiate, can it? And it would improve the Plex Experience by a lot.

Not tried it myself, so no idea about how it works, but try this:

Sadl that seems to only be a Client Side mod which lets you change multiple episode subtitels at once, but you have to still do that manually.

BUT if i use my LG TV for example I cant install this and this also does not help at all with the LIVE TV issue described above.