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Support for movies not in IMDB

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 [...]

OpenSubtitles.org is back!

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 [...]

XMLRPC: DetectLanguage(), view vote

Hi folks,
good news - still more and more applications are using OpenSubtitles.org. We know XMLRPC API is very important for developers, so we added DetectLanguage()  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() [...]

Upload subtitles using Java applet

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 [...]

Introducing Firefox Subtitle Matcher addon

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 [...]

Upgrade: PHP5 and other stuff

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 [...]

500 Internal Server Error

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, [...]

Movie FPS, sub format, upgrade

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 [...]

Page should load faster

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, [...]

Improvements for hearing impaired

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. [...]