Currently, subtitles externally downloaded by Plex are preferred. This is backwards. Plex should prefer subtitles in the following order, highest preference first: Text format embedded in video file; Image format embedded in video file; Closed captioning embedded in video stream(*); Text format on…

Prefer subtitles provided with videos, rather than downloaded subs

tom80H Archived January 27, 2022, 11:51pm 2

2022 clean-up: duplicate

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