I can’t figure out how to play (or record) closed captions with the DVR. I see lots of posts where people can’t turn them on, and others where people can’t turn them off, but I can’t find the settings.
When I’m playing a show from my dvr, under subtitles it always say none, so I assume they are not being recorded. Is there a checkbox or a simple guide for turning on recording and playing of closed captions?
Thanks
Maybe I didn’t give enough info…
My plex server is on a Windows 10 PC. I have an hdhomerun quatro. I have tried to get closed captions directly from the server (chrome and firefox), roku streaming stick, fire tv (1st gen), and the plex app on windows and my android phone.
I found a partial guide on how to get captions.
forums.plex.tv/discussion/276182/settings-for-captions-and-descriptive-video
I’ll try this, but why make everyone do this instead of making a checkbox somewhere that automatically sets up captions?
As far as I could figure out, Plex doesn’t manage or use the closed captions that it records in the .ts files saved from the DVR recordings.
I ended up doing this myself by using CCExtractor to process and save the closed captions as subtitle files that are supported by Plex.
Honestly I don’t know why Plex doesn’t just build this into their software. This seems like a basic functionality and so many people get confused about this.
@Reed97123 said:
As far as I could figure out, Plex doesn’t manage or use the closed captions that it records in the .ts files saved from the DVR recordings.I ended up doing this myself by using CCExtractor to process and save the closed captions as subtitle files that are supported by Plex.
Honestly I don’t know why Plex doesn’t just build this into their software. This seems like a basic functionality and so many people get confused about this.
Are there instructions for how to do this somewhere? I agree it should be included.
I’m using MCEbuddy to do the same, but it seems to not work all the time. The file srt file is always there, but for some reason on the olympic recordings plex doesn’t see it.
I’m using Ubuntu so I downloaded it, compiled it with instructions from the creator, then ran it per their instructions. I don’t recall having much trouble getting it to produce a .sub file which when present in your directory, should be seen by Plex which will allow you to display it as any subtitle file.
I don’t use MCEbuddy, so I’m unable to offer any advice on that software.
