Comment on Jellyfin is not just good... but *better* than Plex now?!

priapus@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• Xanza@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Depends on how you’re viewing Jellyfin. I use Chromecast and Chromecast doesn’t support embedded subtitles well with Jellyfin. So I usually just use ffmpeg to extract the subtitles to an srt file, and then they run fine;

  pushd "\\nas\Media\Movies\"
  fd -e mkv | each {|x| ffmpeg -i $x -map 0:s:0 $x.srt }
  

  Temporarily maps my UNC network location to a usable drive, then using fd and an elvish each loop, iterate over all the mkv files, and use ffmpeg to extract the subtitles.

  Ez-pz.

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• keyez@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Sounds like it’s mostly with embedded subs inside the media files already. Thats where all my subs are so I’m going to test soon but haven’t played anything on jellyfin needing subs in a while

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  • priapus@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I now extract all my subs, but for the first 2 years using it I left everything embedded and it always worked normally. Even with some advanced ones like Jujutsu Kaisen and One Pace, which both use stylized ones.

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    • keyez@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Just tested and with Findroid on my phone, no subtitle options appeared at all, though it had 4 languages embedded. On my roku they showed up but as soon as I picked it it loaded until it said Error During Playback

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      • priapus@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I’ve never used Findroid, but they work on my regular Jellyfin app. I think on Roku transcoding is required, but afaik that’s on Roku not supporting the subtitle format.

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