Merry XMAS with year stats
Opensubtitles.org is now hosted on 4 servers (1 db server, 3 webservers). We changed also handling of sessions to separate memcached daemon.
Open Subtitles
Download movies using UseNeXT
UseNeXT – the company which we are promoting on OpenSubtitles.org. They give you for free program, where you can download a LOT of stuff
Free VIP membership for first 20 users
We thought it should be nice to have some extra value for users, who make content. So if you uploaded more than 100 subtitles you get site without any advertisement and so on.
Beware of asia scam mail
I recently (and my friends also) got mail from Asia Network offering some internet services like registration of domains and Internet brand (WTF). It was scam.
Introducing ALLPlayer
With AllPlayer you can discover special IQ TEXT technology that enables you to watch movies with even wrong written subtitles.
Support for movies not in IMDB
Now you can add your own movie/video to database and then upload subtitles to it – please don’t add movies which are already in IMDB.
OpenSubtitles.org is back!
It seems google adsense doesn’t like pages like these, so they completely disabled ads for opensubtitles.org and opensubtitles.com too. So only right and real domain is opensubtitles.org.
XMLRPC: DetectLanguage(), view vote
We know XMLRPC API is very important for developers, so we added DetectLanguage()Â method. As name suggest – it detect language of given text – which should be gzipped – good when we want to automate uploading subtitles.
Upload subtitles using Java applet
Upload subtitles using Java applet is really useful, because it works better, than “normal” web upload. It works like Subdownloader or well known Oscar – it sends movie hash and movie filesize information, so other people can download those subtitles without using website.
Introducing Firefox Subtitle Matcher addon
Today I’d like to introduce you really nice addon to our lovely Firefox browser. As it is written in heading – it is Subtitle Matcher addon. You can download it from Mozilla (you have to be logged in) or from authors page.
VLC subtitles exploit
All users who use VLC, should be aware there is new exploit which affects VLC <= 0.8.6e. Workaround is not to open ssa subtitles from untrusted sources.
Audio advertisment for OpenSubtitles.org
Czech dance radio Santamusic.cz will promote opensubtitles.org on their site (link exchange and so on). Listen or download our audio advertisment.
Import subtitles: DoNE
There are some thousands new subtitles for Polish, Hebrew and Dutch language. Every of those subtitles was in other format (subdirs, archives, different naming convention…), so I have to write new script (subroutine) for every language.
Download subtitles – SubDownloader
Maybe these videos will help someone. Someone who is not definitely decided to use or not to use SubDownloader for downloading and uploading subtitles.
How to search subtitles using browser
OpenSearch is a collection of technologies that allow publishing of search results in a format suitable for syndication and aggregation.