I’m just completely confused about subtitles in Plex. Generally, when I’m watching a movie from a physical player subtitles will appear when a foreign language is spoken. That doesn’t happen with my movies (ripped to MKV with MakeMKV). There are subtitles that I can force to be on in the Plex interf…

[image] yourpalfranc: So, how does a physical player read the “forced” value and know to display the subtitles, and if the physical player can read it, why can’t Plex?? I believe most BluRay and DVD players respect the embedded default tag in the file (usually the “forced” track) Even if you…

Physical players do use the “forced” attribute on a subtitle stream. That’s actually where this slightly confusing moniker comes from (there is nothing “forced” about it). The difficulty is that a certain disc ripper software is not copying it into the ripped file. So you always have to inspect t…

Yes, I can choose to play subtitles on the movie’s page, but by turning that functionality on, the subtitles display continuously throughout the movie, which is not the behavior I’m looking for.

I’m not familiar with what your asking???

Completely confusing!!! I’m not sure why a user should need to turn on this functionality?? Seems like a serious defect to me. In many cases, you’d be way into watching a movie before you even knew subtitles were lacking???

I was referring to how the subtitles are listed in the subtitle selection. Here’s an example how it might look in Plex Web: [Plex Web subtitle selection] Plex needs some level of information about the embedded tags. As Otto pointed out, the subtitle tracks on your Blu-Ray / DVD usually have a …

Thanks to everyone for your suggestions. I will try all solutions that have been offered, but I must say, this functionality, or lack thereof, makes me entirely rethink how and how much I’ll use Plex for movie playback in the future. I’ve just always been under the impression that streaming from Ple…

[image] yourpalfranc: I find this lack of support for proper subtitles in Plex very disappointing. Let’s not go down that road – Plex supports your subtitles fine. It simply cannot guess missing information. Personally I’m happy with MakeMKV and it’s usually just a few clicks to identify the…

I just checked Kill Bill v1 which I edited the header. The English Forced (PGS) option exists, but when I select it, subtitles play continuously with or without foreign language. That’s the same behavior I get when I select English (PGs).

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yourpalfranc February 2, 2023, 11:48pm 16

Thanks. I’ll try resetting the metadata with the Plex Dance. Certainly an effort I wouldn’t expect to have to do to properly watch a subtitled film.

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