Announcing the Transcoder Upgrade forum preview! Plex’s transcoder is a highly customized version of FFMPEG which has been accumulating bugfixes and features since it was forked back in 2012. With such a large number of differences, upgrading from the upstream repository became increasingly more di…

Btw @ChuckPa can I get my account back?

@bur115 Have you emailed https://www.plex.tv/contact/

@ChuckPa I’m talking about my forums account .

@bur115 The forum admin reached out to you. Did you get that communication ?

@bur115 I can’t seem to replicate the green subtitles even with the sample you sent me, which makes me suspect this is a driver/device dependent issue. Are the subtitles green with tonemapping, without tonemapping, or both?

It’s (once again) a DASH-only issue (DASH is giving me gray hair). stream0.m4s.txt (7.6 MB) [image] chris_decker08: Are the subtitles green with tonemapping, without tonemapping, or both? Without.

[image] pl_5309: If there is a scenario you would like me to capture in the logs let me know [image] pl_5309: While beating on this to make it fail, I discovered that using hardware transcoding while recording does not keep the closed captions and this is the case for h264/HEVC going back…

Plex Media Server Logs_2025-09-02_14-29-30.zip (4.0 MB) HEVC with Live TV & DVR, overall much better. Closed Captions not saved with recording when using Intel. 12:00 - 12 :18 Started a live stream one at a time on CBS, NBC and ABC then activated CC. ABC failed the first time, succeeded on retr…

@pl_5309 but you are able to watch the streams with ASTC A53 CC subtitles (even though you can’t enable the subtitles themselves)?

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