Anyhow, ive been slowly building my plex library and sort of learning as i go.
Problem is, time is at a premium due to the toddler and infant infestation I have and I’m already regretting not going x265. At this point its mixed library or bust considering the time it would take to convert is too great. Thats getting off topic however.
I have plex set up to fetch subtitles as ive been (again - regretfully) stripping my media files bare. More about uniformity and letting plex handle things than space, obviously. I bought a lifetime with the intention of never using anything else to play my media anyhow.
That being said, ive noticed several times (and at this rate plenty more will exist) that foreign spoken parts in english films leave me with nothing.
The TLDR version is, for plex to play forced subs for foreign audio you need to add the srt yourself right? Its not capable of fetching them and certainly not capable of pulling the subs from the “full” srt it fetches on its own?
If the answer is what I presume it to be - is it even possible to add the auto-fetching of forced subs in the future?
There are no reliable sources for ‘forced’ subtitles known.
SRT files don’t support a kind of ‘marker’ to distinguish ‘forced’ subtitle lines from regular ones. Therefore the forced subs cannot be simply filtered from the full SRT.
Although there are some attempts in SubZero to acquire forced subtitles, your best bet is still the original disc.
thank you very much for the reply. Pretty much as I had assumed.
Realistically going back through and finding not only which films require them, but fixing them is unlikely to happen. Live and learn, sometimes the hard way.
With that being said, should a reliable source develop in the future - is this something that would/could potentially be added?
