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 [...]
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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, [...]
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Hi folks, today we’ve upgraded PHP4 to PHP5. While testing PHP5 it seems everything works, but now, as you can see, you get blank page or strange characters sometimes. After debugging this issue, we’ve come to conclusion it is caused by bad communication with web server 2 and db server, so we redirect traffic from [...]
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Is 0:55 and we are pretty tired, but we are going to bed with good feeling. Just look at:
240 packets transmitted, 240 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
Yes, it seems so, we solved this problem, big thanks to DanGer. Now servers are connected using 1Gbit private switch, web2 is still connecting in old way, because there [...]
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Hello Opensubtitlers! I received some tickets regarding 500 Internal Server Error. To be honest, I don’t know where this error comes from and why, I hope it will be gone, when packet loss problem will be solved. Now solution is pretty simple, every 2 minutes is running script, which check if 500, and if yes, [...]
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Today was another active day. I’ve added to search, report and upload pages - movie FPS. Basically - I wanted to disable this, because not everyone knows FPS of movie (and there is some technical issues), but there were some requests…
On internet exists some funky Polish subtitle formats like TMPlayer (tmp) and MPL2 (mpl), so [...]
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After some talk with lighttpd guru at irc, we together optimized its configuration. I also removed some ugly SQL querries, some of them are cached in memcache, thumbnails should be loaded faster, sphinx is doing its job… I can say, now opensubtitles is prepared for five thousands of visitors at same time, we will see, [...]
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Today, I decided I will code something, so I remembered to one topic in our forum, where user MisterHarbies asked for help to deaf people. Actually, it is better use trac for suggestions, but I accept this too, ofcourse. Now, when searching, you can select, if you want subtitles for Hearing Impaired in advanced settings. [...]
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MySQL fulltext searching is not good. Webmasters know this - it is too slow for webs, which have more than 10 people on site So I decided to bring online new fulltext search engine - sphinx. After some days of work, debugging and so on, we can say - it works. I hope now [...]
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Time to time I’m thinking what to add to opensubtitles.org statistics page. Last time, chatting with Majky, he asked, if he should see some stats about using his Oscar - I said no problem. So I created some more stats:
Source of movie hashes
Source of movie hashes for last 30 days
Top movie hash submitters
Top movie hash [...]
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