• paultimate14@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    Right? Like, you can also use the phone app to add the subtitles and just refresh the android TV app. Or use the web browser.

    Personally i consider subtitles to be part of the trandcoding process (along with alternate language audio tracks). So something that should be taken care of before the file is even added to Jellyfin.

    It would be great if that feature would be added to the official TV app someday, but I would definitely not consider this a reason to use Plex over Jellyfin.

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      8 hours ago

      Right? Like, you can also use the phone app to add the subtitles and just refresh the android TV app. Or use the web browser.

      This is VASTLY overestimating how much the average user is capable of or wants to do for this functionality.

      Essentially the only solution is “menu with remote, subtitles on/off”.

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        6 hours ago

        But I’m saying that adding subtitles is the Administrator’s job anyways. If using the app on a phone to download and add subtitles is too complicated for the average user to do, why would the ability to do so on the AndroidTV version of the app be any different?

        Users don’t have to search for subtitles to download when they use DVD’s or Blu-Rays, or when they are watching any commercial streaming service.