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Okay. Thank you!

Hey everyone,

I’ve been trying to stream video from my MacBook Air to my Samsung Smart TV, and it should be simple, right? But no matter what I do, the TV either doesn’t show up in AirPlay, or when it does, the connection drops after a few seconds.

Any tips or workarounds would be super ...

No worries, that’s actually a really good question — subtitles can be confusing!

So here’s the simple version: subtitles are just extra data stored inside the video file (like a text or image track). The player — not the TV or the NAS — is what reads that subtitle track and adds it to the picture ...