[force disable subtitle]

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Please, please, please!!!
does it exist a way to FORCE DISABLE the SUBS?

there’s one of my “friend” usingl plex who really isn’t tech friend and always enable sub, doing so my server cpu hurts (J4105)…

I explained him thousand time how to disable subs but it seems he doesn’t listen.

so please, tell me if there is a way to force disable sub!!!

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You can disable transcoding in total… or if this friend keeps ignoring your requests: remove his access to your server.

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Thats one sollution, but that ruins a lot for other people who needs the transcoder occationally. If only he could dissable the transcoder, only for that one offending user who never learns.

Ofcourse, you could boot the user entirely. That would be my choise.

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It’s crazy, I have a friend of mine who randomly does the same thing and right now he is killing my plex server. Booting him really isn’t an option as he is dying from cancer and he is not tech savvy and don’t want to try to walk him through this when he is already in so much pain. Just really hoping for a solution.

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Inconvenient solutions for an even more inconvenient situation:

  • remove the subtitles from your media
  • beef up your server
  • gift him a player that can deal with those subtitles (I’m playing most of my media through an Apple TV and haven’t seen much transcoding since the introduction of the new player, including forced VOBSUB and PGS subtitles)

There’s no short-term central force-disabling of subtitles in the pipeline of Plex.

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Does the ATV direct play PGS now? :hushed:

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Yes. It was a fair while ago.
Well whenever the new player came in and ATV 4K was the first app to get a new player I think.

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Holy ■■■■! That client keeps getting better. Can hardly wait for Apples new box, then Ill get them around my whole house.

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I don’t own one anymore, however its still the nicest, smoothest Plex experience I have had.
If they ever give us HD audio passthru back I shall return. :grinning:

I fear that’s highly unlikely though.

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Yea its awesome. I love it.

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Here’s another one that often escapes mention:
Go Get - or - Create Some SRT, text based subs that’ll direct play on everything (almost). Drop those PGS/VOBs in the bin. <—especially since you know they’re gonna transcode for your friend remotely - that’s on you, not him.

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Thank you to all for the reply suggestions tricks.
Unfortunately I can’t kick off the friend so I’ll try the workaround. I also can’t disable teanscoding cause here I only have 20Mb up so…

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