Or, I you want to rock this stuff, do it VLC style.
VLC for Android made it with a box on which you can press either “Text seen” then “Audio listened” or vice versa.
On second press the offset is calculated, displayed and set.
Pressing a button make the focus on the other.
Amazingly efficient. Best system I’ve ever seen. Perfectly user friendly… Not like this terrible poor plex option.
So go on and close this request opened three years ago about this UX non sense.
Save my nights and my hardware please because I can’t press thousand of times my Ok button to set an offset…
In regards to a comment further back that offset is rarely more than a second, I refute that. These days subtitles are done pretty well for the most part. Whenever I’ve really needed to change the offset, it’s because the subtitle file available doesn’t match the file length of the movie/episode I’m watching (was made to match a different file encode). In that case offsets are usually 1-5 minutes, depending on what credits etc the video encoding group has removed or kept.
I spent over an hour last night trying to get subtitle offset right. This was because
It was over 660 clicks to find the right spot. (33 seconds offset)
Plex kept glitching and randomly resetting back to zero so I would have to start again.
And again.
And again.
I had issues with the offset even taking effect at times - on Plex Web on the PC, it was very inconsistent. I tried on my phone app and although the numbers were going up, it wasn’t offsetting the subtitles at all. On my Samsung TV app I was finally able to get it working. (usually that’s where the problems start tbh). Fortunately for me, the Samsung TV app works in 100ms increments, so at least that sped things up a bit.
The tiny increments are a massive inconvenience as the only option available. If the increments could be larger (maybe a choice of size?), or if a number could be typed into a box, I could have achieved all this testing in a matter of minutes.
Can’t believe this is still a thing in 2022. When is this goint to be changed in something more reasonable than 50ms offset. Please change the buttons to half a second changes up and down.
I came here to suggest a one second increment instead of 50ms (20 clicks for a second) and see we’ve been asking for this to be fixed for 4 years! Come on Plex Devs!
I embed all my subtitles in my files, so this doesn’t affect me. But using Subtitle Edit, you can quickly edit and offset all lines of a subtitle file really quickly with the Synchronization tab. So external subs can be sync’ed within a couple of seconds easily.
Also, by doing this, you won’t ever have to readjust if/when you eventually need to do the Plex Dance from a corrupted library.
Radarr includes subtitle synchronization and it works wonderfully when the problem is just an offset. It does it automagically by analizing the sound track.
The problem is Radarr is a PITA to install because you will need Sonarr and Radarr and probably Jackett. But Radarr is the real solution to subtitles, instead of the poor Plex implementation.
i agree with this post. the subtitle adjustment is ridiculous in milliseconds. sometimes you have to dig for the subs because plex/opensubs doesnt have it and you need to adjust. either have it autosync, or add some buttons like seconds, minutes etc. sometimes the subs are 2m or so off. my wrist and fingers are hurting. have a hold down option, single press is ridiculous. how hard is it to implement all these features that people are discussing in here. please fix this in the next update asap.
This was first raised 4 years ago. Is anyone at Plex actually monitoring these feeds. We have a Morse series with 10 seconds of delay. 50ms isn’t even detectable to the human eve. Increments of 250ms would be more sensible.
99% of the time the delay is 10, 30, or 60 seconds, we definitely need a fix for this.
Where can I submit a pull request for the iPad and Apple TV clients?
Generally when I find out a sub is wrong I’m actively trying to watch the show with my partner or family/friends. It’s all very well suggesting using a program, but that doesn’t cut it if you’re after a quick fix.
As others have said, the sync is usually out by something like 10/30/60s. My solution would be to have +/- with 4 options
250ms
1s
5 s
10s
There’s simply no need to have such small increments like we do currently.
Even better would be th vlc option that someone mentioned. Or both! Anything would be better than what we have though.
I also came here to plead for this. I watch a lot of content and manually offsetting subs in the apple tv app by 50ms per click each time is ridiculous.
I am also seeing issues with the counter for the offset not reacting or reacting and then going backwards while clicking. A full app restart is necessary to fix this issue.
Doing +10 seconds offset also seems to stall the app to a halt eventually crashing it, only good thing here is that the actual offset upi got to is saved, so you can go back to adding more offset, until it crashes again, rinse repeat until you are at the desired offset.
Why isn’t here a menu under the subtitles that says “resync”. You listen to the first dialogue and then bring up a list of the next text in the sub coming up, you select the text that the person just spoke and then you can just add a few milliseconds either side to match it up perfectly aftwards. No sitting there and waiting for the text to appear on screen, manually counting how long ago this was actually set and then doing the 50ms marathon to match.
I can’t imagine this is a hard fix, but seeing this topic after just having bought a lifetime pass is quite depressing
Add me to the ever-growing list of people that are really stumped as to why such an easy fix is so many years in the coming. Please update this feature, getting RSI from tweaking sub files.
I love Plex so much, it is best in-class in many ways, but I watch so many subtitled films, I’ve started the arduous process of switching to a platform I like less overall, but allows me to tweak +/- subtitle with a single, responsive slider. No more 1000 click adjustments. That’s just an own-goal, folks.
Indeed, this has began in 2019, why does not a developer see this, and could see that this is indeed an issue that needs to be fixed? This is not a proper UX for us, something like a input text box to add the ms or something like multiple buttons for easily getting to the needed sync is something that is easier to do. In case of the button, they only need to replicate it for the number of offset needed, and change the value? Is it too hard to do that, and please us viewers?
