# plz support SMI subtitles without transcoding.
**URL:** https://forums.plex.tv/t/plz-support-smi-subtitles-without-transcoding/205050
**Category:** Feature Suggestions
**Created:** [September 5, 2017, 2:30pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plz-support-smi-subtitles-without-transcoding/205050 "2017-09-05T14:30:34Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@hsmovie](https://forums.plex.tv/u/hsmovie)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2017, 2:30pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plz-support-smi-subtitles-without-transcoding/205050/1 "2017-09-05T14:30:34Z")
in korea, many multimedia is served with SMI not SRT
so it is needed to transcode.
this is really resource wasting.
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### Author:  [@hsmovie](https://forums.plex.tv/u/hsmovie)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2017, 2:34pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plz-support-smi-subtitles-without-transcoding/205050/2 "2017-09-05T14:34:52Z")
for many korean users, can you guys fix it? not by 3rd party program. only by plex.
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### Author:  [@tom80H](https://forums.plex.tv/u/tom80H)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2021, 12:54am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plz-support-smi-subtitles-without-transcoding/205050/3 "2021-04-01T00:54:22Z")
Early 2021 clean-up: duplicate
> [@\[Feature Request\] can't parse smi subtitle correctly](https://forums.plex.tv/t/feature-request-cant-parse-smi-subtitle-correctly/118995):
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> plex android / web version cannot parse smi subtitle correctly. tags like \ / \ / \ / \ show plain text now. but plex home theater can parse it correctly and show bold / italic / change font color. can we see this feature implemented? or please do not show tags. thanks.
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### Author:  [@tom80H](https://forums.plex.tv/u/tom80H)
#### Post date: [June 10, 2021, 12:43am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plz-support-smi-subtitles-without-transcoding/205050/4 "2021-06-10T00:43:27Z")