So, Plex is great at delivering media and their belonging subtitles. It works most of the time. Sometimes the subtitles are being burned in. Burning in the subtitles is totally fine when it really has to be done, but sometimes it is doing it unnecessarily (when it can be natively played or converted…

Hey Guys, I don’t know if you noticed but with version 8.0.0 of the android app there’s this update. Player: direct play subtitles even when transcoding audio or video. It appears to have helped with reducing CPU utilization when displaying subtitles on transcoded streams. I hope this makes it…

My use case is I need to deliver video with hw transcoding. And if subs are burn into the video, there’s no hw transcoding and the video doesn’t play at all in lg web os. A simple option to prevent subs burn is what I need.

Chiming in, I have the same issue on my 2019 tube Shield. Basically: Burn subtitles set to Automatic = PGS direct plays, ASS transcodes Burn subtitles set to Only image formats = PGS transcodes, ASS direct plays The client is obviously capable of direct playing both formats, so I’m thinking the w…

Burning subs are just to expensive on 4K files. Removing the option really should be a server-side setting, as the cost far outweights the benefit. Dissabeling transcoding entirely is ofcourse an option.

[image] RockStar: Burning subs are just to expensive on 4K files. Removing the option really should be a server-side setting I feel the same pain. Please Plex team! Give us a server option where we can disable burn in subtitles! You need a UFO PC to transcode 4K with subtitles. Two streams a…

[image] RockStar: Burning subs are just to expensive on 4K files. Removing the option really should be a server-side setting I once opened an inquiry because it differs from this one. I would be happy about your vote. [image] DEACTIVATE "burn in" subtitles as a server optio…

Since my request is supposedly too similar, it was unfortunately closed. So the whole thing again here for the sake of completeness. Even with a 3700X and an RTX 2080, two streams are not possible. Although the hardware is not yet fully utilized, the streams stutter here and there. 2x 4K with PGS b…

@KCX Intel is who needs to provide the capability for subtitle burning in hardware. It must be in the libva (vaapi) library. Regarding the i3-10000 vs i7-8700: Yes the choice is yours – I’ll never dispute. While you’re looking for subtitle processing - which REQUIRES CPU power; i3-10000 …

@ChuckPa I can understand and understand your recommendation. All good :blush: But I won’t be able to solve the problem with the subtitles with more CPU power. As you can see, I need a 3700X and a 2080 to run only ONE stream. That’s crazy. Instead of Plex, I would advise against it completely. Two …

@KCX [image] KCX: I need a 3700X and a 2080 to run only ONE stream. This is where I dispute. QSV or an Nvidia GPU does in hardware what the AMD cannot. HEVC was designed to be processed in hardware. It’s NOT intended for software. HEVC can be processed in software if you throw en…

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I once opened an inquiry because it differs from this one. I would be happy about your vote.

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