Good morning, I use two servers, with the same files, one plex and another kodi, however files on the plex server, the files with more than one audio or subtitle track, I can only activate them on the server or on the plex client itself to android, so it appears in Yatse, as well as I can’t use VLC as a player when the server is Plex, when the server is Kodi, everything works as expected, I recorded everything in the debug file, using the same file with Kodi and Plex.
If that’s the case, why can’t I see the tracks (when there is more than one track, either audio or subtitle) when I use the plex server? And with Kodi I can?
Plex = I can’t select the tracks, in any external player I use they appear, they only appear when I go to the plex application, whether on the server or for android and activate the option.
Example: I have an episode of a series with two subtitles, one in English and one in Portuguese, if the English subtitle option is selected in plex, only the one in English that appears in yatse, I cannot select the other, changing it in the plex application, whether for smartphone or server. Not to mention that VLC can’t play any files when the server is the plex in Yatse.
Kodi= Playing the same file, shows and allows selection of all available tracks in the file, as in the example I gave above, allows switching between English and Portuguese subtitles, without touching anything in Kodi, in addition to allowing you to view the files in VLC .
Because both transcoding engine does not work the same.
Kodi does not support transcoding, so as you enabled it Bubble is used. Seems Bubble keeps all the tracks inside the transcoded media so you have access to them.
Plex support transcoding and remove unwanted tracks when transcoding to the other tracks are removed so not here so you can’t select them.
Yatse should offer a dialog to select them before playback.
In all cases to stream to VLC you DO NOT NEED TRANSCODE so as I just explained to you enabled the audio codecs in the settings to avoid transcoding (eac3,aac, dts)