It appears that what Plex calls “forced subtitle support” is merely “automatic subtitle selection” and has nothing to do with true forced subtitles. It’s all well and good that Plex will automatically select an English-language subtitle track if I have set English as my preferred audio language and …

Forced Subtitles for Realsies?

tom80H Closed November 1, 2022, 10:18pm 8

2022 clean-up: duplicate (newer but with votes)

Topic		Replies	Views
Feature Request: Forced Subtitles General Discussions	12	1244	January 7, 2020
Subtitles Question Metadata & Adding Files library-management	13	457	July 4, 2021
Forced Subtitles Detection General Discussions	102	1647	December 20, 2019
Feature Request - Allowing Forced Subtitles to be a default. General Discussions	7	919	January 8, 2020
Add support for PGS embedded closed captions // MOD: support forced frames within a subtitle not tagged as forced Feature Suggestions subtitles	9	339	October 23, 2025