I have a few videos I ripped from CDs that I’m loading onto a personal plex server, but all of them use the type of subtitles that will force the video to transcode.
Is there an easy place for finding .srt files? I figured this community would know…
Bazarr is an app for finding and managing subtitles that syncs with Radarr and Sonarr. It might work with Plex but I’m not positive
So long as it gets .srt files I can make it work with plex :D I’ll look into it, thanks!
It actually works brilliantly with Plex, especially since you can use multiple indexers as sources.
Just make sure to set up preferred languages in Bazarr properly, store the subs alongside the video files and rename them appropriately, and Plex will pick up on them instantly.
Edit: on second reading, perhaps you meant solely with Plex? Without any *arrs? That does become more tedious and a dedicated desktop tool might be a more logical choice then.
Vlsub feature of VLC (View -> vlsub) is the easiest way I found:
Christ on a bike, I didn’t know this existed! Big thanks from this deaf cunt
Literally never heard of it… .sub .srt .ass and a few others but not that one.
I’m a complete idiot, I meant srt files. My brain completely garbled that at 1am, no idea how I fucked that up.
I’m fixing the title, I’m dumb
In that case I can answer, though it might not be what you’re looking for. When I need a srt for something I do a web search for the title and where it came from, one of a couple sites show up in the results and then it’s just a matter of matching what you have with what you’re needing.
I’m being vague and not linking anything on purpose but it’s enough to go off of. It’s not automatic but it works for my purpose.
In my experience these never match up properly. Not sure how to help OP in their scenario, but I have the best luck by just choosing a higher quality file to start with since they almost always include subtitles.
Long ago, I used opensubtitles website and then this tool https://github.com/alexanderwink/subdl but lately I always get movies with English subs and just go with it, even tho it’s not my native language
