Sub-Zero.bundle VS ErsatzTV

Sub-Zero has not been maintained since 2021 so I wouldn't consider that a good source.

For a more standalone way, look into Sub-Zero which was THE Subtitle plugin for plex.

Sub-Zero is a third party agent you add to your server

I did find a post, 3 years ago, in the Emby forum that this person did manage to have Subtitles in plex and they were in their own folder by using Subzero. However, the Subzero Plugin states:

It should, but you need to use Kitana to actually interface with it.

See here why it can work with the Plex Movie (Legacy) and why it doesn't work with the new Plex Movie agent: https://github.com/pannal/Sub-Zero.bundle/issues/753

I've used Sub-Zero plugin (https://github.com/pannal/Sub-Zero.bundle), it's quick and always has subs for the languages I need (english and spanish)

Sub-Zero

hahaha I learned everything I know from /r/Datahoarder, /r/buildapcsales(for the HDDs, currently have 24tb's) and ErsatzTV for the IPTV server.

Greetings, all! I am attempting to set up a fantasy TV station for my friends. Currently, I am using ersatztv for the backend, which provides me with all of the content and channel creation and management. So far I am happy with it because it provides hardware transcoding for the streams on consumer hardware.

Yep, another one is https://ersatztv.org/

Personally, my preferred one is ErsatzTV. It's for a couple of reasons but they mainly come down to not being tied directly to the media server application itself.

ErsatzTV: https://ersatztv.org/ — custom IPTV channels from my media library (e.g., a comedy channel, 1980s movies, etc)

Projects like DizqueTV and https://ersatztv.org/ were created to emulate a HDHomeRun to make “fake live tv” available in Plex’s Live TV interface, using Library content to emulate live TV channels you would pick up over an antenna.

I have a potato (J4105) Plex server and tried DizqueTV, ErsatzTV and Jason's DizqueTV fork very recently. But I couldn't get it stable unfortunately. When one series would work great, another one wouldn't, or even refused to play. Or certain program boundaries made the player crash from time to time. And watermark overlays were another story of it's own.