Automatic subtitle downloader

[Vrokolos]

This command line program will automatically download subtitles for your movies, rename your movies using a customized format, create folders for your movies and download imdb covers and details. You just pass a folder path and a preferred language list and it searches for subtitles using your avi files. It uses opensubtitles for the search and it requires the .net 2 framework runtimes which you probably already have. More details here: VrokSub

[Bram]

There already are some really nice subtitle downloaders!

Subdownloader is one of the beste -> subdownloader - Google Code


In XBMC (XboxMediaCenter) there is a plugin that uses the Opensubtitles api. This is something thats missing in MP, which is a shame I think!

[Vrokolos]

This one is command line so you can automate it before running mediaportal or from within some script while mediaportal is open

[idioteque]

this works very very well

thx a lot, I have a few sugestions.

1: can you make the program run in the background with a switch /s ( silent)
2: is it possible to define your own movie name layout : %1 %y %CD I like my year to be in front for instance.
3: would it be possible to also be albe to rename the folder in which the film is
4: can other subtitle sites be added by regular expression ?

[Vrokolos]

For the first three i'll try to add them in next version.
The last one though I think I'll decline because
1) is a lot of work every time a webpage layout changes and
2) I feel bad about scraping another person's site

[gibman]

Nice tool.

I would like to see the posibility to also make it possible to rename the folders where the movie is found in.

Also if a movie is found in the root of the defined folder, then create a subfolder and place the movie+subs there.

Having a folder renamed like "Moviename (Year) [subs]" would be great.
In MP we have currently no indication on which movies/folders contains subs.

If renaming a file, plz. create a dummy file with the old filename, incase one would need it.
Whatever u think is smartest.

/gibman

[idioteque]

yes, keeping the old name would seen handy

[Vrokolos]

If renaming a file, plz. create a dummy file with the old filename, incase one would need it

ok.. what about the extension? would .ren or something be ok for you?
I don't want to make a 0 zero bytes avi file.

[idioteque]

just a 0 bit txt file with the old name

like : cocain-seu.avi.originalfilename

so if the sub is out of sync, than we still have the old name.

How about another option.

What if the sub is out of sync or just a bad sub, is there an option to try different subs?

cocain-seu.nl.srt is bad

cocain-seu.nl_1.srt
shoot em up.nl_2.srt alternative version

not sure how this would work gui style

[manula]

Nice tool but it doesn't work for me.

I got this error:

P:\BioDorisburg\vroksub>vroksub "n:\film\ej klar" sv,en

Found 8 Movie Files
Connecting...
Searching for subtitles...
Found subtitles:

Unhandled Exception: System.FormatException: Input string was not in a correct f
ormat.
at System.Number.StringToNumber(String str, NumberStyles options, NumberBuffe
r& number, NumberFormatInfo info, Boolean parseDecimal)
at System.Number.ParseSingle(String value, NumberStyles options, NumberFormat
Info numfmt)
at System.Single.Parse(String s, NumberStyles style, NumberFormatInfo info)
at OSDbClient.MovieFile.SelectBestSubtitle(BindingLis t`1 subs, List`1 ls)
at OSDbClient.Program.Go(String FolderArg, String LangArg, Boolean overwrite,
Boolean rename, Boolean newOnly)
at OSDbClient.Program.Main(String[] args)