Hello people, some of you might have already noticed that opensubtitles.org didn’t work for past couple of days correctly. This was due to the move to a new hardware and new operating system version of our servers at collocation, as the old hardware was already pretty much loaded and site was a bit slow. Also [...]
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MPC means Media Player Classic (download), it is a little old – latest release is dated to 2006-03-20, but that means nothing. It is still one of the best software players floating around. I will show you in this guide how to download perfectly matched subtitles without opening any website using OpenSubtitles.org ISDb protocol.
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We decided use unique bug reporting system called Trac – an enhanced wiki and issue tracking system for software development projects. Trac is available for 2 applications – opensubtitles.org website and Oscar. Feel free to post bug reports or make suggestions for new features.
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After some discussion with Majky (author of Oscar), we agreed on adding 2 new methods to XMLRPC API. One Method is SearchMoviesOnIMDB($token, $query), which returns array of movies from imdb.com. Next method is GetIMDBMovieDetails($token, $imdbid), which returns some nice information for given imdbid. With these methods it should be even easier to develop and maintain applications working [...]
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Today I’d like to write about added signature in subtitle files. It is common, that other subtitle sites do this and now we do this too. We thought about this long long time ago, but there was one problem – if someone downloaded subtitles from opensubtitles.org with this signature and he will try upload same [...]
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I found a little time to implement one nice technique, which send me some time ago Hungarian pal nb000 - thanks for idea. It was not so easy, as one should think, but after all, I changed displaying hopefully all flags on site with this. That means request for web server should be lower and page will [...]
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After few days discussion is online again. What to say more ? We store data to another table, so it should be a little faster, now comments are in tree structure, so now is possible see who replied to some message. Mails sending stay the same. Also we completely changed system of writing of new message, [...]
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I had to disabled discussion for subtitles, it takes too long to get comments, it is caused by “wrong” tables. I store too much information into “abstract” table, it should be used only as log table, but it is used for too much information and get some data takes ages…it has now 6.478.595 rows…So I [...]
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Today I had idea – what about new feature – when someone post comment to some subtitles, uploader of those subtitles should receive informative mail about that. The same applies to user profile. Of course not everyone want receive such information, so I added to profile page settings for that. And how should mail looks [...]
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It seems i’ve found a little more time to concentrate to opensubtitles.org. Today I saw on one nice webpage movie trailers done through google video ajax api, so I decided, it should be nice feature to have this on site too. As you can see, on subtitle detail page is now possible click to “Show [...]
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