Hi all! I’m trying to get subtitles working with TV show extras? From reading here, i know support is limited on some platforms, but I can’t get it to work with my android smart tv, web browser, or android phone. At first I tried an external subtitle file, but then I just put it in the MKV container…

I haven’t tried with tv show extras, but I see subtitles with movies extras. Do you not see the option to select a subtitle or you select them, but they don’t show?

They worked fine in Movies, but TV shows would not see them until I did one of the following: Solution: 1.) do the plex dance ( https://forums.plex.tv/t/the-plex-dance/197064 ), the subtitles will eventually show up if they are embedded. 2.) make a season 99 folder and just put it in there as a reg…

I’ve just tried to reproduce this with the new-experience apps and (embedded) subtitles seem to be working perfectly fine: subtitles can be selected from the player UI forced subtitles are recognized and will be selected according to my account language preferences So it should at least work on y…

So you had a tv episode extra without subtitles. You replace the file with one that has an embedded subtitle. Did you preform a show refresh after replacing the file?

Yep, did all the non- plex dance steps you mentioned, but it refused to recognize the subtitles until i did the plex dance .

Updating local extras in-place is a bit convoluted. In order for the server to perform a new Analysis on the extra, you need to do it this way: remove the extra file leave the pre play page of this library item, wait a few seconds and return to it. If this doesn’t trigger the removal of the extra…

Good point, and will def avoid editing in directory next time.

Subtitles not working with TV Show extras?

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DryLightning January 20, 2026, 12:24am 5

The main issue I think I had that forced me to do the plex dance to get it to work, was that when I merged the SRT into the MKV, i did it live in the media folder plex was using for the tv shows, and I think it just got stuck that that MKV had no subtitles. That’s my best guess why I didn’t work immediately after I merged and refreshed the metadata.

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Subtitles not working with TV Show extras?

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