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abfarid@startrek.website ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

Currently my biggest complain with Jellyfin and the reason I can’t switch to it completely is the bad subtitle support. There’s a bunch of clients and some subtitles work on one, but not the other and vise versa. It’s annoying to jump clients depending on what you watch. Sometimes subtitles just don’t want to load by default and you have turn them on for each episode. And even though I have Bazaar, sometimes I still need to download subtitles, and Plex has that built-in.

Either way, I already have lifetime subscription, there’s no point in switching. At this point I’ll only switch is JF becomes better or Plex becomes worse.

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sonofearth@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

JF becomes better or Plex becomes worse

Both will happen.

Besides.

some subtitles work on one, but not the other and vise versa

For me it has worked everywhere. All of my media is in .mkv so it already contains the subtitles. It works in all browsers clients, Desktop clients, TV and Mobile clients. Works in VLC and MPV as well on desktop, TV and Mobile. Works with Kodi as well. Works on same network (via both host IP and reverse proxy) as well as remotely via Pangolin.

So you can try putting everything in one MKV Container or maybe change the subtitle formats (if that’s a thing).

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- abfarid@startrek.website ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  
  Both will happen. 🤞
  
  Of course I can put extra work into formatting my subtitles to make them work everywhere. Sometimes they are embedded, sometimes they are an .srt file next to the video file. And I don’t want to spend time normalizing all of them. It already just works all the time on Plex, so I’ll simply wait until JF fixes the support.
  
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  - Chewy7324@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    I don’t think Jellyfins focus is currently to support irregular naming schemes. Naming media correctly with a proper scheme is the way to go.
    
    Just so you know I wouldn’t hold my breath.
    
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    abfarid@startrek.website ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    I’m not talking about naming schemes. The subtitles are detected, but they either crash the client or render improperly or just don’t show up despite being selected. I guess I’m really waiting for a decent multi-platform client that just works.
    
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  - punkibas@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    You can also try Wholphin, it’s a jellyfin client with subtitle search like Plex.
    
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    abfarid@startrek.website ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Thank you for your suggestion. That seems like a very nice JF client, but unfortunately it’s Android-only, and we do most of our watching on iPads.
    
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