Just got the latest player as part of the early Plex Pass rollout (still waiting for my beta invite 
), and for the most part it seems to be working well, although I’m having problems with EIA_608 subtitles, which I had expected to be supported based on this announcement.
Basically, a great deal of the video content in my Plex library has come from a large library of iTunes purchases. These use EIA_608 captions, which work fine in the native Apple players and apps like QuickTime and the original embedded player (by toggling them on from the system CC menu, as opposed to the Plex one, and ensuring the global Burn Subtitles setting is set to “Automatic”).
However, letting Plex add the EIA_608 subtitles has never worked in prior versions either, resulting in gobbledygook captions as opposed to anything useful. For those situations where I’ve wanted subtitles when using other players, I’ve had to resort to using ccextractor to rip out an SRT file and use that, which works fine, but it’s not something I want to have to do with over 6 TB worth of media just to make sure that I’ll be able to pull up closed captions when I need to figure out what somebody was saying.
Of course, the real problem with the new player is that now I’m left with no subtitle options, since of course the old system-level CC menu is gone, having been replaced by the new player menu. While this is a good thing overall — I definitely like the direction the new player is going in — without proper EIA_608 support it’s going to be a deal-breaker, so I hope this is something that’s still in the works.
