You can also try Wholphin, it’s a jellyfin client with subtitle search like Plex.
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abfarid@startrek.website 7 hours agoBoth 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.
punkibas@lemmy.zip 6 hours ago
abfarid@startrek.website 5 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.
Chewy7324@discuss.tchncs.de 5 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 5 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.
avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 1 hour ago
That’s odd because the clients are just web apps I think. That should work without crashing on a stable OS. I use them on Android mobile and Android TV with extensive subtitle usage and haven’t seen instability.
A funny thing I noticed is that the client distributed in F-Droid is extremely old even though it says it’s updated recently.