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Plex should be using hardware transcoding instead of software transcoding to burn-in subtitles as of version 1.41.0.8994.

Plex Media Server

Plex Media Server 1.41.0.8994 is now available to everyone. NEW: (AdDetection) Allow ad detection in libraries without DVR (PM-1841) (Nvidia Shield) This release removes support for legacy plug-ins on Nvidia Shield devices (PM-1855) (Scanner) Look inside ‘subs’ and ‘subtitles’ sub-directories for external subtitle files (PM-1002) (Subtitles) Improved subtitle burn-in performance when Hardware Transcoding (PM-1764) (Tone Mapping) Added a preference to select tone mapping algorithm to use. Only…

• (Subtitles) Improved subtitle burn-in performance when Hardware Transcoding (PM-1764)

See forum thread from the testing. Lots of success stories with significantly improved performance burning subtitles in 4k.

Subtitle Burn-In Improvement Test Build

Hey everyone! We’ve been working on improving the logic for how Plex Media Server burns in subtitles when hardware transcoding in order to achieve a significant performance boost (especially for low powered CPUs) and we’re looking for additional testing and feedback. Nvidia and Intel devices have been improved on Windows systems and Nvidia, Intel, and AMD (assuming no ToneMapping is required) devices have been improved on Linux based systems. Assuming no significant issues are discovered this…