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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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), [...]
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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 website [...]
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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 [...]
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Time to time I check trac for new tickets, and I found interesting one (actually, it was send by user and I put it in trac), where was suggestion about creating favourite subtitles for user. This means, you can mark any subtitles and add it to you favourites. I have this idea already in my [...]
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We needed better subtitles reporting system, so user should change info like release name, uploader comment or even uploader. I coded it and this is all now possible with new reporting system, so you can try that. Also “editing” subtitles was deleted and now is only available through “report” page. In short this means, if [...]
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Don’t be scared, when you will see in URL OpenSubtitles.com – we are testing something, don’t update bookmarks, OpenSubtitles.org is still correct URL. If you will find some errors caused by this change, let us know. Thank you.
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