Can you, from the device, chose how to transcode and apply subtitles, select different video/audio tracks, potentially trigger ahead-of-time transcoding, etc.?

Can you, from the device, chose how to transcode and apply subtitles, select different video/audio tracks, potentially trigger ahead-of-time transcoding, etc.? Fixed device profiles are not particularly useful. I may be mistaken, but I do not recall DLNA as supporting any such "extended", server-specific capabilities.