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[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Biggest issue I and my friends have with my Plex server is the constant buffer-play-for-a-minute-buffer issue with certain anime subtitle formats. Although the little bit of searching I’ve done with that indicates that may be more of an issue with the device being streamed on than with Plex itself. I dunno.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Certain subtitle formats cannot be directly streamed, so your server is probably re-encoding video on the fly to burn in the subtitles. PGS format is actually a series of images and will always require re-encoding video. Picking SRT should work with device direct streaming.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That must be it, then. Thankfully I’ve got Bazarr set up to snag SRTs for imported media, so those should generally be available.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

As someone else said, this almost always comes down to the device they’re using. Especially if it’s a Playstation console or a Smart TV (in my experience) as they don’t support x265 codec or have .ass support, or both

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

I’ve noticed Roku TVs are a common device to have issues.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Come to think of it the AppleTV app does say a piece of media doesn’t have subs when it does. And if I turn them on the playback hangs for ~10 seconds.

I don’t get the play/buffer/play/buffer issue but I only really use it on my LAN so not really a surprise there.