I fully understand that the lack of support for image-based subtitles like the ubiquitous PGS format is not the fault of the plex developers, but rather the client hardware vendors. However, it’s still infuriating that simply enabling subtitles on bluray rips brings streaming to a crawl due to trans…

@jamezracer said: I fully understand that the lack of support for image-based subtitles like the ubiquitous PGS format is not the fault of the plex developers, but rather the client hardware vendors. However, it’s still infuriating that simply enabling subtitles on bluray rips brings streaming to …

excellent! Any plans to migrate this to other clients like Samsung TVs ?

The only clients which are able to pull this off are: PMP OpenPHT and Kodi with the Plex4Kodi Add-On If you don’t need 4K or HEVC support, you could do with a Raspberry Pi 3 and Rasplex (=OpenPHT) or ‘PMP embedded’ on it. Or use an ODroid C2 if you need 4K and/or HEVC. (Running OpenPHT).

Image-based subtitle overlay without transcoding

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