
If you have a DVD in a drive, it will be automatically detected. The later Handbrake processes will be much faster this way. We perform this step first instead of jumping straight to Handbrake in order to move past one bottleneck of our pipeline: the IO cost of getting the data off the DVD. It will also almost certainly not be in a Plex-friendly encoding, so once we've extracted the subtitles, we'll use Handbrake to reencode.
#ADD SUBTITLES TO PLEX MOVIE#
The movie file itself will also be quite large, usually more than 5gb. Nothing is reencoded, so you're getting the content as-is. This pulls everything off of your DVD and wraps it in the. So I personally think it's safest to use the subtitles supplied by the DVD itself. However, they're not guaranteed to have the exact timing that your particular DVD expects. the ability to freely edit your own subtitles.Ī note on : Yes it's possible to get loads of.the ability to add new subtitles whenever we want, just by coping a file.a better look to the subtitles while watching, since clients can freely manipulate text.Plex to avoid "subtitle burn-in", which causes live Transcoding.It seems that keeping all subtitles as external. Plex can handle these without issue, all while avoiding Transcoding if we set everything up correctly. I could never manage to convince my Chromecast to handle multiple audio and subtitle tracks correctly. My encoding settings, media types, and subtitle formats are all chosen to avoid live Transcoding by Plex during playback, and allow reasonably high video quality. Namely, how I rip and encode DVDs that I own using Handbrake, store them on a Raspberry Pi running Plex, and play them on my (Sharp) Roku TV.
