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sonofearth@lemmy.world 4 hours agoJF 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).
abfarid@startrek.website 3 hours ago
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.
Chewy7324@discuss.tchncs.de 2 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.
abfarid@startrek.website 2 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.
punkibas@lemmy.zip 3 hours ago
You can also try Wholphin, it’s a jellyfin client with subtitle search like Plex.
abfarid@startrek.website 2 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.