And I do think Emby's subtitle support is good, better than Plex. Edited Octoby sluggo45Īdding Podnapisi is great, especially for non-english subs (I have Spanish inlaws). The developer is active on Github and Discord ( ) so ask a question or request an enhancement if you want one, that's how programs improve. Obviously it isn't for everyone - if you don't use Sonarr or Radarr to manage your TV/Movies (though if you don't maybe you should take a look, they are fantastic) it's of no real use, and being a beta there's still some stuff to be done. Even though it is still in an early beta state I've found it works quite well, to the point where I've disabled Emby's built in subtitle handler. Since it integrates with Sonarr/Radarr it will also automatically search for subs as the former download content. After discovering all existing subtitles I have the option to search for missing, or better, subs on a scheduled basis. ![]() You install it just like Sonarr/Radarr - the process will look very familiar. It also uses Subliminal for the latter and in my experience using it is quite good, in addition to being both easy to use and easy to tune to your preferences, providers, etc. It's standalone, not built in to Emby/a plugin, and the way it works is by using Sonarr and Radarr - you may have already guessed that Bazarr is a fork of those (well, fork of Sonarr, like Radarr is) - by pulling the libraries from each via API and then discovering/matching subtitles. For Emby, one option is a (pretty recent) app called Bazarr. SubZero uses it which is why most Plex users who care about subs install it. It has a solid matching algorithm, lets you specify forced/hearing impaired, has lots of fine-tuning options for most every weird edge case around, and in general is just a great way to automate subtitle downloads and get subs that actually work in a large variety of languages. Over in Plex-land, there's a plugin called SubZero which leverages the excellent Subliminal project ( ) - I won't cover that here because you can read all about it on their site, but basically it is one of the best subtitle-matching applications around, and can use a number of different providers including, of course, Open Subtitles. ![]() And the heavy reliance on Opensubtitles can be a problem at times because that doesn't always have the subs you need, it has heavy rate limits if you aren't a VIP subscriber to it, and generally seems to have API problems, particularly lately. While good, Emby's sub support is still somewhat basic in terms of matching, or finding subs for hearing impaired (like me, I am deaf in one ear and have a hard time hearing dialog at low volume), particularly if you are using files you've altered (like if you removed embedded subs from a file because Emby clients insist on listing those without differentiating from external subs but that is a different topic) because the file hash won't match so "download exact matches" won't work. If your default response reading this is "well, I think Emby's sub support is fine" then great, you be you, but if you want something more read on. And it can work pretty well having used both I think it works better than Plex's built-in subtitle support at any rate. I know Emby has built-in subtitle support via Opensubtitles & Subdb.
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