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Subtitles

Subtitles follow the choice you make once in Settings, and can be changed for any title from the player.

Your usual choice

In Settings, Playback, under Audio & Subtitles:

  • Subtitles: Off, Foreign Audio (only when a title is not in your language), or Always.
  • Subtitle Language: the language to show them in. It starts as your Apple TV's language.
  • SDH Subtitles: prefer subtitles that also describe sounds and name who is speaking.
  • Audio Language: Jellyfin Account plays the track your server picks for your account, Original keeps the file's main track, or pick a language.

In the player

Press Up and select the Subtitles button. Its menu has:

  • On and Off.
  • Language, the list of the title's subtitle tracks.
  • Style, when your Apple TV has more than one caption style.
  • Delay, for subtitles that run early or late, and Height, to lift them higher on the screen. Both are adjusted with Left and Right.
  • Search for Subtitles. See below.

Holding the Subtitles button switches them on or off without opening the menu.

Styled subtitles

Subtitles in the ASS and SSA formats, common with anime, are drawn as their author made them: their own fonts, colours, positions and moving signs.

The look of plain subtitles is your Apple TV's caption style, set in the Apple TV's Settings under Accessibility, Subtitles and Captioning. If you have made a style there that overrides the video's own, styled subtitles are drawn in your style too, keeping their positions.

Picture subtitles

Subtitles stored as pictures, as on Blu-ray and DVD (PGS and VobSub), are shown as they are.

Searching for subtitles

Search for Subtitles asks your Jellyfin server to find a subtitle for the title. It is offered when your server has a subtitle provider set up and your account is allowed to manage subtitles.

Generated subtitles

For a title with no subtitles in your language, Remedia can write English subtitles from the dialogue, on the Apple TV itself.

  • Switch on Generated Subtitles (English) in Settings, Playback, or pick the last entry in the player's Language list, marked Generated.
  • The first use downloads a speech model of about 230 MB.
  • English only for now.

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