This is something I’ve been trying to do reliably for years. I can stream anything I want easily with VLC or even just Chrome itself but I can’t get subs to work. I was able to make it work for a long time using a Chrome app called “videostream” but it now no longer works correctly on my system. It’s a bit confusing to me but it kind of looks from what I have read that Plex can apparently handle this? Most references to the idea seem to be for later chromecast versions but mine’s a 1st gen I bought in 2014. Could I use Plex to stream local media with separate or embedded srt files to my chromecast ?
Since I have nothing better to do, I dusted off my original Nexus Player and casted a couple of things from the Plex app on my phone. It works, so I would assume it would also work on your Chromecast.
Thanks for running that experiment for me. Hopefully the results are transferable.
So far as I know, there’s no meaningful different between older and newer chromecast dongles when it comes to just streaming video.
Why not try it? Plex can be downloaded for free and just stream from a local file and try it?
Have you tried the option on Plex to “burn in subs” always? I have had subtitle issues here and there but setting that option fixed my subtitle issues.
Not a chromecast user though but just wanted to throw that out there.
I haven’t used Plex yet, was wondering if it could do this to see if it was worth a shot. I’m hopeful from some of these responses though that it can. I expect burning in the subtitles would work, it’s just that I want to avoid re-encoding if I can and wouldn’t necessarily need Plex if that turned out to be the only way anyway. Thanks though.
