I’m wondering if the subtitles are downloaded as “extra” on top of the movie?
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If the Netflix video works anything like what I have seen in 3 years working on video streams…
1) You are getting the subtitles treamed anyway whether you use them or not.
2) The subtitles bandwidth is absolutely tiny compared to the video itself and the audio.
Whether or not Netflix has the subtitles downloaded as an extra or not? We can’t know. The Netflix streams are too heavily encrypted.
No, when you stream it’s part of then program. All you do is turn on or off the subtitles that come with it. The 2 things decide if more or less data is used which is program length or the quality (streaming quality can be changed in settings to minimise data consumption)
Netflix compression puts data usage at about 1 gig/hour.
The entire script of a movie would take up a few hundred kilobytes.
Not even a drop in the ocean I’d say you’re good.
If the subtitle data isn’t passing through already, the data they do use is incredibly minimal. An hour long show may have a subtitle file something like less than 50KB
Probably not, I suspect they load regardless of if you turn them on or not. Even if there was a difference, it would most likely be so small you wouldn’t care
I think it does.
I tried playing a video, turning off WiFi, and turning on subtitles. It stopped, but continued playing from the cache when I turned them off.
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