Hi there, due the fact that a lot of people running the PMS on a NAS and that the most of them not powerful enough for a transcode I have a suggest. It would be nice if all of your apps would support SRT or better ASS subtitle files as overlay option. The very pretty samsung app support, damn fine …

Well, my request was CLOSED due to the fact that it was “similar” to this one. Even though, my request WAS MORE SPECIFIC to Opera TV devices (I see there are different engineers or progammers for every brand or group of devices and besides, asking for a global support of soft subtitles would be awes…

Can Plex add soft subtitle support for TiVo Bolt? WWE Network, Hulu, and Netflix all support soft subtitles on the device. Even the beta version of Emby supports soft SRT subtitles. Any chance of Plex adding support?

Most devices can already do srt subtitles natively as it is not very demanding. But .ass forget it, those can include heavy effects and animation limiting them to PC platforms only. To my own knowledge, on Android platforms it burns-in subtitles if transcoding is triggered for any reason due to some…

TiVo Bolt does support text subtitles (WebVTT) but the Plex Settings on TiVo have subtitle burn-in set to ALWAYS. Plex just needs to change that to “Image Formats Only” and I think that’s it.

[Feature Request] SRT or ASS Subtitle overlay support in apps

Feature Suggestions

Topic		Replies	Views
Request: Soft subtitle support for Opera TV Plex client (ex: Sony, Vizio) Feature Suggestions	3	104	June 10, 2021
We need ass/ssa subtitile support Feature Suggestions android-tv , plex-web	2	158	October 5, 2022
[implemented] Ass/ssa subtitle support Feature Suggestions subtitles	7	1324	October 5, 2022
Will Android Plex player get the .ass subtitle (without transcoding) support by any chance? Plex Players android-mobile-legacy , android-tv	4	361	June 15, 2022
[Feature Request] - Better handling of soft subtitles to prevent transcoding Feature Suggestions	7	198	July 23, 2021

[Feature Request] SRT or ASS Subtitle overlay support in apps

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