Hello all, how’s your hollyday? I hope you are not watching movies and not still sitting in front computer like me Anyway, there are some news:
Support for movies not in IMDB
this feature was most missing and users asked for it from early times, so here it is. Now you can add your own movie/video to database and then upload subtitles to it - please don’t add movies which are already in IMDB. Technically - it is just workaround - it adds movie to database with IMDB greater than 10.000.000 - and that means it is internal movie. Should work good, if not, let me know. Some more details (rating, cast, directors…) is not supported, but should be done in future…Support for adding movies using XMLRPC coming soon
ALLPlayer automatic subtitles upload
Guys at ALLPlayer implement automatic upload of subtitles, in newest version it detects .nfo files and it has support for 2CD movies and some more cool features. Automatic subtitles upload works really nice - after 80% of watching movie are subtitles uploaded. I like to see this feature in more players out there - read first for developers.
There are more changes: voting is disabled for anonymous users, smart detecting similar subtitles, better response times (still should improve:), improved handling subtitles requests for admins…
Maybe you ask, where was OpenSubtitles.org before ? It was on visit on opensubtitles.com It seems google adsense doesn’t like pages like these, so they completely disabled ads for opensubtitles.org and opensubtitles.com too. So only right and real domain is opensubtitles.org. Please also update your bookmarks and all linkings, thank you.
There are more and more developers, who like to add support of opensubtitles.org in their programs/scripts/applications/standalone players, so we wrote some FAQ for developers - check it out if you are interested.
At least, but not last, SubDownloader2 is out! Congratulations to capiscuas - main developer - it was hard work!
I had a little hollyday, now I am back in full strength, so prepare for some website bugfixes and all of those cool stuff you like…also we will soon move our servers, so maybe you will encounter some problems with site…
good news - still more and more applications are using OpenSubtitles.org. We know XMLRPC API is very important for developers, so we added DetectLanguage()Â method. As name suggest - it detect language of given text - which should be gzipped - good when we want to automate uploading subtitles. Maybe soon will come Register() and other useful methods.
Also, moderators and users are angry of bad rating of their subtitles. Sure - there are always some, who want to make some bad things. So now on subtitle detail page, if subtitle has some rating, you can see who, when and how voted for given subtitles. Also there is more restriction - if you upload subtitles, you cannot vote for your own subtitles. I Think this is fair, because everybody gives to himself 10 points
Also for your information - we are taking small hollyday, so take care of site
Hello after long time. We’ve been working on Java applet for uploading subtitles and implementing it to OS site. Upload subtitles using Java applet is really useful, because it works better, than “normal” web upload. It works like Subdownloader or well known Oscar - it sends movie hash and movie filesize information, so other people can download those subtitles without using website. If you don’t know nothing about this, just check our wiki.
Today I’d like to introduce you really nice addon to our lovely Firefox browser. As it is written in heading - it is Subtitle Matcher addon. You can download it from Mozilla (you have to be logged in) or from authors page. I will not show you, how to install extension to firefox, everybody should know - and who doesn’t knowm brief guide: click on install extension, edit options at right top of window, click allow, click close, click install extension, wait and click install, restart ff.
Firefox Subtitle Matcher addon can do following things (in its 0.2.1 version) - just open movie file:
search for perfectly matched subtitles on opensubtitles.org using unique hash for any language
redirect to imdb.com page using opensubtitles.org API
search for polish subtitles on napiprojekt.pl and napisy.info
Here is small video how it works:
Tip: you can click at OS icon at bottom of Firefox, also when you can not open input window for file selection, try disable some addons and restart firefox. We hope you enjoy this nice addon, more will come!
Also if you are thinking we have hollydays, just look at opened and closed tickets at our trac.
All users who use VLC (indeed, very good media player), should be aware there is new exploit which affects VLC <= 0.8.6e. Workaround is not to open ssa subtitles from untrusted sources. You can read more here: VLC media player trips up on subtitles VLC Exploit
Today not much news, still working on something, as usual - but not always on opensubtitles:) Czech dance radio Santamusic.cz will promote opensubtitles.org on their site (link exchange and so on). Listen or download our audio advertisment
Last two days I’ve spent writing perl scripts for importing subtitles. There are some thousands new subtitles for Polish, Hebrew and Dutch language. Every of those subtitles was in other format (subdirs, archives, different naming convention…), so I have to write new script (subroutine) for every language. For Hebrew language there was 3 different types!
Anyway, import is done, I looked to imported subtitles, and there are some mistakes caused by autodetecting IMDB, so if you will find some wrong name of movie for some subtitles, just make a new report (click to “correct movie”).
If you have some nice archive with subtitles and you like to share with other users, don’t hesitate and contact us
Maybe these videos will help someone. Someone who is not definitely decided to use or not to use SubDownloader for downloading and uploading subtitles. If SubDownloader doesn’t work for you, try OSCAR Read more »
Many users don’t know how to utilize opensearch feature of opensubtitles.org. Our motto is: do it simple as possible, so searching for subtitles is really simple now. OpenSearch is a collection of technologies that allow publishing of search results in a format suitable for syndication and aggregation. If you are using browser, which supports opensearch, like FireFox, installation is really easy. You can find this feature at right side of URL bar. Watch video and you will get the idea:
Really nice thing is, you can search in many languages at once (log in, at your profile page select languages, select them in search page, install opensearch like on video). Of course you get results in same language as you installed opensearch, just play a little with it. You can always remove opensearch using “Manage Search Engines”.
This suggestion feature is quite hard to handle on servers (every typed character makes http request…), so if it will not work, try install opensearch again or we’ve disabled suggestions
Prefered method for searching and downloading subtitles is using programs, like Oscar or SubDownloader.
Anyway, there are some news:
It seems google adsense doesn’t like pages like these, so they completely disabled ads for opensubtitles.org and opensubtitles.com too. So only right and real domain is opensubtitles.org. Please also update your bookmarks and all linkings, thank you.