SubtitleDownloader (4 Viewers)

[seco]

Hi,

since a week or so i cannot download any subs from bierdopje.com. It used to work very good, i still can download from other sources (but they don't have dutch subs). I tried with xbmc and it can still download from bierdopje. So it is specific to SubtitleDownloader and SubCentral. I am using MP 1.2 with Subcentral 1.1.2 and subtitledownloader 3.0.5.

I really need all the logs and more detailed steps to reproduce the problem and more info what is happening. "Cannot download" does not tell much.

Everything is working fine here.

 

[J-J]

Hi,

since a week or so i cannot download any subs from bierdopje.com. It used to work very good, i still can download from other sources (but they don't have dutch subs). I tried with xbmc and it can still download from bierdopje. So it is specific to SubtitleDownloader and SubCentral. I am using MP 1.2 with Subcentral 1.1.2 and subtitledownloader 3.0.5.

I have the same problem with Bierdopje.
It works for shows that consist of 1 word, as Homeland, Haven,..., it doesn't work for shows with multiple words, as Hell on wheels, Revolution 2012, Hawaii Five-0 2010,...
Also since Bierdopje move to a new server I get more false (wrong show) results when searching.

I really need all the logs and more detailed steps to reproduce the problem and more info what is happening. "Cannot download" does not tell much.

Everything is working fine here.

I included a full log in attachment.

 

[seco]

Released 3.0.6

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[dacore944]

It works again
Many thanks. And extra thanks for the fast response and fixing of the problem.
Keep up the good work...

 

[J-J]

Released 3.0.6

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Downloaded and installed it. Everything works just fine now!

Thanks for the quick fix!

 

[Dragy]

Bierdopje is broken again. Is it right that this plugin uses a common IP to retrieve the subtitles and not our own IP? Bierdopje started to block IP adresses with more then x requests. It's only allowed to do 250 a day now. Enough for one IP (user), but ofcourse not when every MediaPortal user connects to Bierdopje's API via the same IP adress.

Fix? Not an easy one I guess..

Here is the info: http://www.bierdopje.com/forum/alge.../11754--Proef--API-Throttling-rate-limit/last

edit:
XXX

Probably, they will change this.. because this is just silly. The limit on using the API is just a test they say.

 

[loendersloot]

I have the same problem with bierdopje.

Here's the feedback thread: [dutch] http://www.bierdopje.com/forum/algemeen-developers/topic/11752--Feedback--API-Throttling-rate-limit/

 

[Galaphile]

Same Bierdopje issue here,
And perhaps some caching could be done so the API does not get bashed by us. The name/id info is static so perhaps this info could be checked in a local cache first before asking bierdopje.

 

[seco]

I've said this before but the Bierdopje API does not make sense to me.

From what I'm looking here is that there is and never has been a way to search subtitles by making a single query like Search(showname, seasonnumber, episodenumber). Then they wonder why there are so many requests to their API? Suggesting "caching" as a solution for every single client that uses the API is not the right way.

EDIT: Since there seems to be Dutch users here it would be nice if someone would try to explain this on Bierdopje forum thread. I honestly think that the API needs changes, not restrictions.

 

[Dragy]

I will expain it to the Bierdopje developers.