Option to disable transcoding for clients requiring burned subtitles

[tom80H]

I suppose this what you’re asking for is already covered in an existing suggestion:

New option! Burn Subtitles: Avoid at all costs

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 to another text format) One example is ASS subtitles in the android client. Having Burn Subtitles: Automatic will burn them. Changing the setting to Only Image Formats will now natively play them. F…

If so, I suggest you comment/vote in that thread in order to avoid distracting votes – in which case we should close this thread as a duplicate.