Is there a way to flag movies with hard subtitles?
I have a lot of hard subtitled movies recorded from television and they appear in Plex as being without subtitles. I’d like to mark them somehow.
Hi - Plex doesn’t support this. As the subtitles are actually part of the video, there’s also no way for Plex to recognize that there are subtitles in this movie
I haven’t tried this, but I think if you added a fake subtitle it would fool Plex into thinking there was a subtitle it should use, and Plex would show there is a subtitle available. I’ve attached a single line subtitle that would display for about a second at the beginning of the video.
It would take some work on your part, as the fake subtitle file would have to be properly named and added for each video.
Example:
… My_hard_coded_movie.mkv
… My_hard_coded_movie.eng.srt
It is a work-around, but as mentioned, there is no way to tell that the subtitles are already burnt into the videoFake_Subtitle.zip (198 Bytes)
But doing so might trigger a lot more transcoding than previously.
I forgot to mention that. I thought about it when I was making the fake subtitle, but missed including that information. Thanks for reminding me.
I used the fake subtile workaound before but dropped it.
I was hoping Plex came up with something smarter.
Guess Plex it not interressed in this 
That would be a bit hard. The only other way would be an OCR program and even then, won’t be without hiccups.
No it wouldn’t. I’m asking for a flag…
You can change the title according to your country preferance and add other informations. Why not a field for hard subtitles.
Okay. I may have taken this differently then what you are asking for. I assumed you were asking for a way to programmatically flag them automatically. The answer is no. Plex can not. You can however IF you know they exist.
You could add TAGS to these files. You could modify the TITLE of the movies. You could add them to a playlist. You could add them to a collection. There are a few thing you could do to distinguish from the rest.
That’s obvious. I wanted it to appear where information’s on subtitles normally is shown so my users would be aware of that “this Chinese movie actually is subtitled” 
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