It’s often impossible to read plex subtitles, it doesn’t have basic features like having a dark background behind the subtitles or control over the size, which often leads to the subtitles being too small or too big. backgrounds are really important though, anyone who watches content from a differe…

Dark backgrounds for subtitles and more options in general

tom80H Archived June 20, 2022, 8:28am 6

2022 clean-up: implemented (e.g. using mpv.conf in current generation Plex desktop players)

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