Then I found Shoko and was blown away. I found out that not only could I use it to fix the metadata problem, but I could even get it to organize and rename my entire collection. I spent a lot of time configuring this renaming (even making my own fork of ShokoServer because I didn't like their invalid character replacements) and then, after making sure it worked for a few examples, threw my whole library into it. Source: over 1 year ago

Might wanna look into shoko server and shokofin. Source: over 1 year ago

I've had no issues here with subtitles. Metadata can be a bit janky though, so I use Shoko and the Shokofin plugin to help: Https://shokoanime.com/. Source: over 1 year ago

The last time I was looking into this, I came across a couple of projects that are supposed to help you organize your anime library to deal with this kind of stuff, the main current one being Shoko. Some past discussions: [1], [2]. Source: over 1 year ago

The only way I was able to work around this was by setting up a Shoko server, which fixed all those issues for the most part, although I still have some issues on a few shows. I actually also use Shoko as my primary Plex agent now for my anime libraries and it works pretty well. Source: over 1 year ago

For people who like to watch with subtitles, VLC currently doesn't support streaming to chromecast with SRT subtitles.. There are several issues for it and I believe support is slated for the next major version of Chromecast, but not sure when that will be. The typical "workaround" is to reencode the video file to include the subtitles directly, but that sounded like too much work, so I hacked together a static... - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

Videojs is superior to basically everything. It's also open source... Source: about 1 year ago

Another option is looking at https://videojs.com/ with the Vimeo video file links. Source: about 1 year ago

I am woring with HTML - I managed to download a (m3u8) video. By inspecting the webpage (videojs.com). Source: over 1 year ago

Now, to display the HLS stream to viewers, we’ll use HLS.js, which we installed earlier. For more UI customizations, you can check out Video.js, which uses HLS.js internally. - Source: dev.to / over 1 year ago