Embedded Closed Captions Display Incorrect Bitrate

Plex Media Server Metadata & Adding Files
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Server Version: 1.21.0.3616

Something which I’ve noticed recently and is bothering me is how embedded Closed Captions are handled incorrectly by the Plex Server and display wrong Metadata.

To take as an example, an MKV file that I have displays as follows (with some abbreviation of unrelated stats).

For the overall file information shows:

  • Bitrate 29770 kbps

The Video stream is:

  • Bitrate 14822 kbps
  • Closed Captions 1

Notice the closed captions (independent from the .srt subtitle file that is in the MKV file), and the video bitrate. Then though the closed captions info in the Metadata…

  • Codec EIA_608
  • Bitrate 14822 kbps
  • Embedded In Video 1
  • Display Title English (Closed Captions)

Basically it seems that Plex thinks that the CC bitrate is the same as the Video, presumably because they are embedded. Is there a way to get the bitrate be displayed correctly, or is this just a bug that I’ll have to live with (not that it is a horrifying one, but it is very annoying)?

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Hah, that’s a lot of captions! Ain’t nobody got time to read that much.

Does the XML also show 14822 kbps?

Does this change after “extensive media analysis” is completed?

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Yes, XML reads:

<Stream id="439505" streamType="3" codec="eia_608" index="0" bitrate="14822" language="English" languageCode="eng" embeddedInVideo="1" requiredBandwidths="14976,14927,14857,14824,14817,14817,14817,14817" displayTitle="English (Closed Captions)" extendedDisplayTitle="English (Closed Captions)"/>

As for “extensive media analysis"… I’m not sure? None of these are new files, but I did do some edits to them today (recontainered several .mp4 files to .mkv), which is how I noticed something was off, and I don’t THINK they had the same high bitrate prior. But I see at least one file with the same issue that isn’t new and I didn’t touch.

We’ll know tomorrow after the task runs overnight, I guess?