same here.
used to stream movies and subtitles from freenas to a smb share on kodi, but after upgrading to the latest freenas version which no longer supports SMBv1 (which is probably a correct decision) I cannot mount the smb shares from kodi.
I tried using Plex instead (which I was using previously only for music), but I can't get external subtitles to work.
tried adding ".forced.srt" ; tried changing various settings (according to the forums) ; tried scanning and rescanning the library ; even tried adding subtitles files in various languages....
nothing seems to be able to convince plex to consider the exteral subtitle files
and naturally they are in the same folder as the movie with the same permissions, same file name: name.mkv, name.eng.forced.srt
the plex logs do not seem to provide any clue
does anyone have any clue?
UPDATE:
I saw the following
post which states:
If the server runs on a NAS platform (especially QNAP) there is another big issue:
there must be not a single file name or folder name with non-ascii characters (stuff like: á ã ê ç etc.) on it, or the Local Media Assets agent doesn’t work.
Is that true??
I have quite a few non ascii filenames for both moview and subtitle files. Plex does not have any problem playing the movies with non-ascii characters in the file names
