It's official: Plex have so enshittified their web player that there is now no way to turn on subtitles.

So all the foreign language films I had bookmarked on Plex, I guess I'll be watching somewhere else. Great job!

#NowWatching Tai Chi Master (1993) on Fawesome instead

https://fawesome.tv/movies/10694345/tai-chi-master-cantonese

EDIT: looks like it may be just that film; e.g. Throne of Blood does have subs

#Plex #Enshittification #LegitFreeMovies

Watch Tai Chi Master (Cantonese) Full Movie Free Online - Fawesome TV

Two monks part ways amid rebellion. One rises to power, the other trains in Tai Chi to bring peace. Starring Jet Li and Michelle Yeoh. AKA 'Tai gik Cheung Sam Fung'.

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@klu9 works fine here!

@mazigazi

Looks like it's just that film so far. Watched Throne of Blood yesterday and subs *are* available for that, but still not for Tai Chi Master.

They were a bit delayed but the FastStream browser extension recommended by @asj fixed that

#Plex #LegitFreeMovies

@klu9 @asj (sorry, I can’t access original post) have you downloaded subs online to add manually? Plex is finicky with subs sometimes!Opensubtitles.org is a swell place
@klu9 @asj also, I need to rewatch Thai Chi Master now!

@mazigazi @asj

Once I sorted the subs issues, I had a great time watching Tai Chi Master!

Plex also has Wing Chun (1994), also by Yuen Woo-ping with Michelle Yeoh, another on my watch list

https://watch.plex.tv/en-GB/person/yuen-woo-ping

#YuenWooping #MichelleYeoh #LegitFreeMovies

Yuen Woo-Ping

Watch more of your favorite Yuen Woo-Ping movies and TV shows on Plex.

@klu9 @asj anything with her is fun!

@mazigazi @asj

FastStream has OpenSubtitles search built-in. I tried several with Plex Tai Chi Master but they were all off.

Now I know how to adjust their timing in FastStream, I'll try again if I find another film without subs, or with bad subs (the subs for Ossessione 1943 on Plex are terrible in BOTH English & Italian)

#Plex #FastStream

@klu9 FastStream (extension) has been surprisingly good at solving this problem for me.

@asj

Tried FastStream but in the end I'm doing as much work as if I was trying to match a video from P2P with trawling the web for subs

Search OpenSubtitles, press Search, choose an option (from 48 pages of options!), load it, close all the pop-ups so I can actually see the subs, see they aren't right, repeat the 5 previous steps until getting subs that match. (I quit after the 3rd failure.)

But I'll keep the extension & try it out in other situations. Thanks.

@asj

Watched Throne of Blood on Plex yesterday. Subs were available in Plex player, but 1.5-2 seconds late. So I fired up FastStream & used its sub timing arrows. Problem solved! πŸ‘

Took some screenshots using the inbuilt tool, but can't find them for the life of me πŸ˜†

#Plex #FastStream #LegitFreeMovies