PGS Subtitles on LG C4 (2024 Model)

[nanuk 36]

Hi Emby Team,
I know there are already many threads dealing with subtitle issues...

i just have a simple question... why does the "LG Emby App" encode the video when selecting PGS Subs while "LG Plex App" does direct play on the same file an the some pgs subs selected?
imho this cannot be an LG Prob.

Greetz
nanuk
 

[Luke 42077]

Hi, the LG video player does not support these natively. We're aware that other player has built a way to render the PGS subtitles client-side, so that's something we can look into implementing, but as mentioned, since the player doesn't support them it's not just something that can be turned on.

[daedalus 434]

so we have here another topic emby has made zero progress in over a year now

one can just wonder how the others were able to just "turn it on"

Edited September 4, 2025 by daedalus

[Luke 42077]

29 minutes ago, daedalus said:

so we have here another topic emby has made zero progress in over a year now

one can just wonder how the others were able to just "turn it on"

They developed a solution to extract the bitmaps and display them with their own rendering mechanism. This is something that we'd also like to do, but there is no magic switch to just "turn this on".

[daedalus 434]

the point is they cared and so found a way

[electronicsguy 0]

On 10/21/2024 at 1:10 AM, Luke said:

Hi, the LG video player does not support these natively. We're aware that other player has built a way to render the PGS subtitles client-side, so that's something we can look into implementing, but as mentioned, since the player doesn't support them it's not just something that can be turned on.

Great work going on with Emby. By the way, are developers forced to use the native player to playback content? Or does LG allow you to code in a custom player?

[Luke 42077]

On 9/17/2025 at 12:15 AM, electronicsguy said:

Great work going on with Emby. By the way, are developers forced to use the native player to playback content? Or does LG allow you to code in a custom player?

Thanks !

It is not possible to embed a custom player, however for both LG and Samsung, strategic partner apps are granted access to lower level API's that other apps are not able to use. Hopefully that's how this was done.