I’m a deaf user who has used Plex for several years now. Long enough that the primary reason for using Plex in the first place was the lack of support for closed captioning for various online players/streaming services. Hulu and Netflix had yet to caption their content. I’ve finally ran into a serious flaw with Plex, the lack of support for EIA 608 caption files. VLC doesn’t seem capable of displaying them either, but QuickTime can and Plex should.
I hope someone investigates this soon and closes this accessibility loophole.
Been using Plex DVR to record TV from my HDHR for awhile and noticed that CC (closed captions) are actually being saved, just not displayed. Would love to have the closed captioning displayed like subtitles.
Text #1
ID : 256 (0x100)-CC1
Menu ID : 1 (0x1)
Format : EIA-608
Muxing mode : A/53 / DTVCC Transport
Muxing mode, more info : Muxed in Video #1
Duration : 31mn 58s
Bit rate mode : Constant
Stream size : 0.00 Byte (0%)
CaptionServiceName : CC1
Text #2
ID : 256 (0x100)-CC3
Menu ID : 1 (0x1)
Format : EIA-608
Muxing mode : A/53 / DTVCC Transport
Muxing mode, more info : Muxed in Video #1
Duration : 31mn 58s
Bit rate mode : Constant
Stream size : 0.00 Byte (0%)
CaptionServiceName : CC3
Text #3
ID : 256 (0x100)-1
Menu ID : 1 (0x1)
Format : EIA-708
Muxing mode : A/53 / DTVCC Transport
Muxing mode, more info : Muxed in Video #1
Duration : 31mn 58s
Bit rate mode : Constant
Stream size : 0.00 Byte (0%)
Text #4
ID : 256 (0x100)-2
Menu ID : 1 (0x1)
Format : EIA-708
Muxing mode : A/53 / DTVCC Transport
Muxing mode, more info : Muxed in Video #1
Duration : 31mn 58s
Bit rate mode : Constant
Stream size : 0.00 Byte (0%)
