MKV/Subtitles on iPad/AppleTV Plex app not available

Hello,

I have been ripping most of my DVD’s via MakeMKV on my Mac to retain the lossless quality and quite frankly, it’s just simple. I have found that when I play the files on my Mac via VLC, I get subtitles during required foreign scenes as expected. When I watch the same file on my iPad or AppleTV via the PLEX app, I am unable to view subtitles. With the AppleTV, my files are streaming and are being transcoded. Since I am sync’ing my iPad, I assume it is transcoding/converting as well.

Can someone please tell me the correct settings to display the subtitles that are already a part of the MKV file. I have been banging my head for a while now. The one thing I am trying to avoid is re-ripping or changing that process. But I will if that is the only way.

Thank you,

Steve

Are you selecting the subtitle before hitting play. do they show up as selectable in the web app?

If you rip DVDs, enabling (forced) subtitles will always trigger transcoding.
At least with your selection of Plex clients.