I understand
But NOBODY around here watches movies on a PC
LOL
SRT files for subs the only way to go. They don’t require transcoding on most Plex client apps, are smaller files and can stream out to the client alongside the video/audio stream very easily.
Just my $0.02 worth…
@jjrjr1 said:
I understand
But NOBODY around here watches movies on a PC
LOL
Sorry yeah if that reply was regarding my last post I just meant opensubtitles and subscene have a large amount of srt subtitles that you can use as external srt subs.
Thanks for all the advice guys.
Truly appreciated.
I am basically lazy.
If I cannot just rip a title and have the subtitles simply work properly, Withiout gyrations of conversion or searching and syncing SRT files… It will never happen.
Would be nice if Plex would look into this… As it is… Subtitles are mostly unusable for a busy PMS…
Do DVD players have that much horsepower to merge in the VOBSUBS into the video stream???
They must do it differently…
BTW… Just Curious. Is this an ffmpeg limitation??
@MikeG6.5 said:
SRT files for subs the only way to go. They don’t require transcoding on most Plex client apps, are smaller files and can stream out to the client alongside the video/audio stream very easily.Just my $0.02 worth…
Totally agree. But you can understand where @jjrjr1 is coming from. He’s obviously ripping his own movies and not pirating… and he’s suffering with it because of the lack of SRT on the discs . 
Just a question
Does Plex use the ffmpeg switch overlay filter??
It seems this switch can merge multiple inputs??
Just wondering
Sometimes I download subtitles from podnapisi.net.
Other times I use an app called SubRip to do OCR extraction. I like it a little better than the equivalent functionality in Subtitle Edit. There are other tools to do it too:
http://forum.videohelp.com/threads/313620-How-to-extract-subtitles-from-a-Blu-ray-and-convert-to-srt-or-sub-idx
LOL
I just tried to play subtitles in the Windows 10 Plex App.
It allows selection of the subtitles.
BUT
It does not display any subtitles…
Let’s face it… Subtitles in PMS is not quite there yet and mostly unusable to many many folks
BTW
Having trouble understanding the single threaded passmark issue.
Unless my CPU monitor is just wrong, the transcoding for subtitles maxes all 8 cores to 100% utilization.
Wow, that’s a lot of work…
@jjrjr1 said:
Having trouble understanding the single threaded passmark issue.
Unless my CPU monitor is just wrong, the transcoding for subtitles maxes all 8 cores to 100% utilization.
the Plex XML info of that particular movie may help shedding some light on that.
Plus the exact model of cpu in your server.
@OttoKerner
Thanks so much for your help.
LOL… I might even learn something.
I’ll gather the XML and some PMS logs for you to help me interpret and maybe figure it out.
John
This sort of discusses how subtitles in Plex are not ready for prime time… so to speak, I think
