If that’s the case, can you make an extra effort to always Direct Stream subtitles if compatible? For example on my TV the subtitles have to be burned-in even though my TV understands SRT while on my Fire TV Stick they get Direct Streamed instead. That’s a difference between 100% and 20% CPU usage! If that’s somehow not possible it rather transcode it to SDR than risk a worse user experience by buffering/stuttering constantly (and I know that in the past burn-in meant unwatchable for me).
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