What you are talking about is this
and what you are saying is correct. If the Android clients needs to transcode the audio, the subtitles must be burned in to keep the text in sync.
But I am talking more generally about Plex and how it handles subtitles, not only Android.
Plex staff, I really think the users deserves to know what the “Automatic” setting really means and how it reacts to different situations.
