diff --git a/bazarr/config.py b/bazarr/config.py
index 08d4dc05e..6c45fb42d 100644
--- a/bazarr/config.py
+++ b/bazarr/config.py
@@ -210,7 +210,8 @@ defaults = {
         'include_ass': 'True',
         'include_srt': 'True',
         'hi_fallback': 'False',
-        'mergerfs_mode': 'False'
+        'mergerfs_mode': 'False',
+        'timeout': '600',
     },
     'subsync': {
         'use_subsync': 'False',
diff --git a/bazarr/get_providers.py b/bazarr/get_providers.py
index 9314aa96f..e1d50798b 100644
--- a/bazarr/get_providers.py
+++ b/bazarr/get_providers.py
@@ -225,6 +225,7 @@ def get_providers_auth():
             'cache_dir': os.path.join(args.config_dir, "cache"),
             'ffprobe_path': _FFPROBE_BINARY,
             'ffmpeg_path': _FFMPEG_BINARY,
+            'timeout': settings.embeddedsubtitles.timeout,
         }
     }
 
diff --git a/frontend/src/pages/Settings/Providers/list.ts b/frontend/src/pages/Settings/Providers/list.ts
index 83fc64630..158328cce 100644
--- a/frontend/src/pages/Settings/Providers/list.ts
+++ b/frontend/src/pages/Settings/Providers/list.ts
@@ -67,6 +67,7 @@ export const ProviderList: Readonly<ProviderInfo[]> = [
       include_ass: true,
       hi_fallback: false,
       mergerfs_mode: false,
+      timeout: 600,
     },
     message:
       "Warning for cloud users: this provider needs to read the entire file in order to extract subtitles.",
@@ -77,6 +78,7 @@ export const ProviderList: Readonly<ProviderInfo[]> = [
         "Use HI subtitles as a fallback (don't enable it if you have a HI language profile)",
       mergerfs_mode:
         "[EXPERIMENTAL] Ignore cloud video files from rclone/mergerfs",
+      timeout: "Extraction timeout in seconds",
     },
   },
   {
diff --git a/libs/subliminal_patch/providers/embeddedsubtitles.py b/libs/subliminal_patch/providers/embeddedsubtitles.py
index c3306db68..aca0bb31b 100644
--- a/libs/subliminal_patch/providers/embeddedsubtitles.py
+++ b/libs/subliminal_patch/providers/embeddedsubtitles.py
@@ -79,6 +79,7 @@ class EmbeddedSubtitlesProvider(Provider):
         ffmpeg_path=None,
         hi_fallback=False,
         mergerfs_mode=False,
+        timeout=600,
     ):
         self._include_ass = include_ass
         self._include_srt = include_srt
@@ -88,6 +89,7 @@ class EmbeddedSubtitlesProvider(Provider):
         self._hi_fallback = hi_fallback
         self._cached_paths = {}
         self._mergerfs_mode = mergerfs_mode
+        self._timeout = float(timeout)
 
         fese.FFPROBE_PATH = ffprobe_path or fese.FFPROBE_PATH
         fese.FFMPEG_PATH = ffmpeg_path or fese.FFMPEG_PATH
@@ -185,7 +187,9 @@ class EmbeddedSubtitlesProvider(Provider):
             # Extract all subittle streams to avoid reading the entire
             # container over and over
             streams = filter(_check_allowed_extensions, container.get_subtitles())
-            extracted = container.extract_subtitles(list(streams), self._cache_dir)
+            extracted = container.extract_subtitles(
+                list(streams), self._cache_dir, timeout=self._timeout
+            )
             # Add the extracted paths to the containter path key
             self._cached_paths[container.path] = extracted