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So basically I just got a new LG OLED TV (55 inch C5) and my Dad's C4 was seemingly able to display internal or embedded subtitles in TV shows through the built-in media player from external USB storage just fine with some tinkering in the menus.

But with mine, the subtitles are displaying all of the raw text in the subtitle files in the player, not using the arguments properly at all.

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Is there any way to fix this other than literally doing subtitles for every episode externally, in a seperate file?

These subtitles work fine when I play from the exact same storage device on my phone through VLC, and again on my Dad's LG TV

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I actually ended up fixing it, I deleted the "Smart TV" folder on the external drive that stores file watch progress and factory reset the TV too.

Fixed most of the subtitle issues.

Following up with LG when I get to do some more testing to see if it's a file specific problem or a problem with the application reading subtitle files that are embedded in video files

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It depends on what is embedded in the video file
Some have very basic subtitles which are fine
others have detail about font/colour etc

I use SubtitleEdit to strip and modify the subs

The first time you will need to enter all the options you need  but they are saved ready for the next time

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