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seco

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    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

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    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.
     

    Dragy

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    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.
     
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    Galaphile

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    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

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    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.
     
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