jellyfin with subtitles on Chromecast

Hey fellow saltdogs! :D

I have a jellyfin server running on an old laptop. Now I have the jellyfin Android app and would want to play content with subtitles (anime weeabooo), Cast to my Chromecast. I was using VLC player as an external player on Android but casting with subtitles is not supported. Max Player had a lot of adds I have heard (?).

Anyone watching their content with subtitles via Chromecast? What player are you using?

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I'm guessing not, but in the offchance you're using one of the newer Chromecast with Google TV there is a Jellyfin app you can install

I believe jellyfin has an option to ‘burn in’ subtitles so they are part of the video. I don’t know how this effects performance or anything but it should work for what you described. I believe you can turn it on through the admin web ui.
- This is indeed the correct answer. It is under the transcoding options. Your server will essentially need to re-transcode the video on the fly to add in subtitles. Which requires a not insignificant amount of processing power.
  I ran into this issue while running jellyfin on a raspberry pi.
  So long as your server has hardware acceleration turned on. To allow jellyfin to use your GPU for transcoding. You should be fine.

Plex will cast to a Chromecast with subtitles. It will also fetch them if you don't have an SRT file in the folder of your video with the same name. Lenguages is also selectable at the time of fetch. I do not pay for pro. Nonetheless, I have not tried jellyfin and cannot tell you if it is possible there or not. My guess is it should.

i don't know too much about jellyfin compatibility, but your issue is probably ASS/SSA format subtitles, which are a complex graphical overlay subtitle, rather than simple text so device support is less guaranteed.
You could try pre-burning the subtitles in before hand by re-encoding the video, or find content with SRT subtitles which have wider support.
ASS on android clients is mostly a solved issue these days so as the other commenter suggests, the google TV chromecast with a native jellyfin app would be a more reliable solution for you.

You will probably get better answers from !jellyfin@lemmy.ml or !jellyfin@lemmy.world

Be careful, subtitles on Chromecast seem to get progressively more and more out of sync until it is about 3 seconds out of sync if they are not embedded in the media.

You can try using Subtitle Edit to convert the subtitles to SRT, but it's work. https://www.nikse.dk/subtitleedit

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