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<blockquote data-quote="seco" data-source="post: 924868" data-attributes="member: 54595">Hi,&nbsp;SubtitleDownloader is a standalone library that you can use in any .NET software. It provides a single interface for searching subtitles from multiple sites and contains all the logic which is needed to communicate with those sites. The main advantages of standalone library is that it can be re-used in any software, like a plugin for Mediaportal 2 in the future for example.&nbsp;If SubtitleDownloader logic would be directly in SubCentral plugin, creating similar plugin for MP2 would be more difficult since all the logic would need to be copy-pasted to the new MP2 plugin. Also, all fixes and new stuff would need to be implemented in both plugins which is double the work. So basically SubCentral is just a user interface for SubtitleDownloader. Likewise it would be possible to create a web interface (web application) or command line application for SubtitleDownloader.&nbsp;In MediaPortal 1 you need both, SubCentral and SubtitleDownloader. SubtitleDownloader is now distributed as MPEI package for easy updates, this way there is no need to create new version of SubCentral and update to that every time something new or fixed comes up in subtitle sites logic.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="seco, post: 924868, member: 54595"] Hi, SubtitleDownloader is a standalone library that you can use in any .NET software. It provides a single interface for searching subtitles from multiple sites and contains all the logic which is needed to communicate with those sites. The main advantages of standalone library is that it can be re-used in any software, like a plugin for Mediaportal 2 in the future for example. If SubtitleDownloader logic would be directly in SubCentral plugin, creating similar plugin for MP2 would be more difficult since all the logic would need to be copy-pasted to the new MP2 plugin. Also, all fixes and new stuff would need to be implemented in both plugins which is double the work. So basically SubCentral is just a user interface for SubtitleDownloader. Likewise it would be possible to create a web interface (web application) or command line application for SubtitleDownloader. In MediaPortal 1 you need both, SubCentral and SubtitleDownloader. SubtitleDownloader is now distributed as MPEI package for easy updates, this way there is no need to create new version of SubCentral and update to that every time something new or fixed comes up in subtitle sites logic. [/QUOTE]

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