Open Subtitles

Hide your personal activity in torrents

TorrentPrivacy.com offer modified pre-configured uTorrent client, which uses SSH protocol with 128 bit encryption, so nobody can see what are you really downloading, and also helps against P2P traffic shaping.

Putdrive.com to download Torrents

Putdrive.com is a new online cloud storage and download service that allows you to download files from torrents, video sharing sites, and over 80 different file hosters! It’s a combo solution worth trying out.

How to use Drag and Drop search

One of the new neat feature is getting exact subtitles for your movies without installing any program. Just take your movie file and drag & drop it into green search bar on www.opensubtitles.org

Learn English with fleex.tv

The guys over at fleex have just announced the release of a new video player which is using OpenSubtitles.org subtitles service. Not just any video player though, as you’ll see: one with an English-learning twist, that makes the process of learning the language suddenly a lot more appealing.

Try new QVIVO Social Media Center

QVIVO is a pre-release multimedia player software so it’s a little raw, but expect big things in the coming months including cloud based backup and streaming to any device running a QVIVO app.

Add subtitles to DVD

Here is small guide how to add subtitles to DVD using ConvertXtoDVD – you got some movie file (divx, avi, mov, mpg…), you got some subtitles (sub, srt,…), and you want burn this movie and subtitles to DVD.

Babylon – Leading Translation Software

Babylon translation software is a single-click translation and dictionary program that will radically reduce your time spent on any translation. By a single-click you will immediately get translated words, sentences or even full text into 75 languages.

LeechPack download toolkit

Here’s a new “bad boy” in town called LeechPack that will certainly have a huge impact on how we “LEECH” from now on, and was built from the ground up to make our lives a lot easier!

Servers upgraded

Now database server is running FreeBSD 8.0, after installing it didn’t boot, so it takes couple of hours to fix this issue. Hopefully there won’t be anymore downtime like this.

XML-RPC URL changed

We are changing main URL for XML-RPC server to http://api.opensubtitles.org/xml-rpc, but don’t worry, old URL will work until end of 2009.

OS exclusive: Get Scrubbu for free!

Scrubbu is the easy way to search for downloads on the internet. Instead of searching webpages one by one, Scrubbu automatically scans the internet for downloads you want, and reports back with a list of one-click downloads.

OS is going to freeze features

I’d like to finish some “small” things on OS website development and XML-RPC, so development will be in feature freeze. If you have some features, which you really like to see, write them to comments.

Media players you should try

In this article I’d like to summarize all media players, which I can personally suggest for viewing videos and of course with OpenSubtitles.org support.

TIP: Kantaris media player

Kantaris Media Player aims to be an all-in-one media player that provides a great audio and video experience. Kantaris is an open-source alternative to Windows Media Player with similar GUI and features.