[Script] Download subtitles on-the-fly

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

It would be cool to have an update

[aciidb0mb3r]

Hi , its awesome script.
I was making it for another site but the problem is they check HTTP referrer
is it possible to send custom HTTP referrer while requesting the url?

[ivoire]

Couldn't you use the "http-referrer" option ? If you gave it to vlc as an input item option it might work (":http-referrer bla").

[aciidb0mb3r]

i tried didnt work

[svkpd]

It is working, but I have a question.. do you use hash function for best suited results? I am making java version of OS downloader right now and I get lots of results even when I search with hashes. I checked your code and havent found any usage of hashes, so I am asking.. And very nice feature would be automatic upload of users subtitles, if they watched ~60% of video (so there is pretty good chance the subtitles fit). Maybe as an idea into the future.

Btw, java version of my downloader, it is school project and still in developement. However, it works, there are just some bugs somewhere (sorry for slovak language, try google translate)
http://student.fiit.stuba.sk/~dulacka09 ... lenet.html

[ale5000]

I haven't much time but I'm still here, if someone add hash functions to VLC itself and expose them to LUA then it will add hash searching in my script; but doing hashing directly from LUA is a thing that I want to avoid.

Upload is difficult, but if someone has a (pratical) suggestion of how implement it, I will do it.
I'm not sure if it is possible with current VLC, because I need to check how much of file is played (with a specific loaded subtitle, not just played and not just with any subtitles), I also need to check the upload part (I have never done it from LUA).

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

What kind of hash functions do you need?

[svkpd]

here are the source code of OpenSubtitles hash computing for all major languages
http://trac.opensubtitles.org/projects/ ... ourceCodes

so the task is to rewrite this in lua. with hash, you can search for subtitles that fits (which could be a gamechanger )

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

They are NOT using standard hash functions? You've got to be kidding me!

[ale5000]

I have given a better look at the page and it seems to be a lot faster than normal hashing so doing it directly in lua may be feasable; but I haven't even tried and I still hate hashing
So I appreciate if someone else create the hashing code either in LUA or directly in VLC.

[svkpd]

... or directly in VLC.

I believe that full implementation in VLC wouldn't be bad, guys at BSplayer tried it and it is working great for them. I have read a topic with some legal issues concernes when it came to subtitles, but player is not responsible anyway, subtitle servers are (if there were any issues, subtitles are just texts and can not be copywrighted). And it is not a lot of work.

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

No, legally, given access to a database that is mostly illegal is illegal.

A script is fine then.

[ale5000]

... or directly in VLC.

I believe that full implementation in VLC wouldn't be bad, guys at BSplayer tried it and it is working great for them. I have read a topic with some legal issues concernes when it came to subtitles, but player is not responsible anyway, subtitle servers are (if there were any issues, subtitles are just texts and can not be copywrighted). And it is not a lot of work.

I was referring only to the "hashing code", not the whole subtitle search/download, so there isn't any problem.

[ale5000]

I think that I will change the name of the script.

If you have a suggestion for a better name, say it.

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Subtitle Finder?

[svkpd]

SubtitleFetcher, SubFinder, SuDo (Subtitle Downloader)..

[ale5000]

Probably I will use "Subtitles Finder", but keep suggesting names.

[Tuche]

i am on mac and did put it in the right folder, as mentioned in the first page, but it does not seem to work at all, i do also not see a extension submenu under any menu from vlc . . .

help needed, thanks!

[ale5000]

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[bullride]

Hi all

would anyone please be so kind and tell me how to run the subtitle lua script? i have posted it on the folder mentioned in the post (Running on Mac OSx 10.6.8 / VLC 1.1.10.1) but some how the subtitles are not being downloaded nor shown in any way.

do i have to trigger the script to run or will it just run automatically?

any help appreciated.

cheers

[ale5000]

It is manual.
You should see a new entry in the "View" menu, but the Mac interface of VLC is behind.
So probably lua extensions aren't working on Mac.

[bullride]

Thanks ale5000, that would make complete sense. i'll give it a try on my win7 machine and see if the menu pops up.

cheers

[mono_demon]

may i know where is the downloaded subtitle file is saved?

[dorin]

It's great, works perfectly,
But, why didn't you added more languages by default?

Seems to be realy easy to add.

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{ title = "Portuguese", tag = "pt" }, { title = "Russian", tag = "ru" }, { title = "Romanian", tag = "ro" } { title = "Spanish", tag = "es" }

[ofird]

Thanks for the script, great job!

Also, if you want to download Hebrew as well just edit the script
and add this line to the languages array (at the bottom of the script)

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{ title = "Hebrew", tag = "he" },