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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Request section is again usable

After some months of unusability of request section I decided to create it again almost from scratch. Now it should be better, faster and it has more features.

Implementing better caching technique

After playing a little bit with memcache I had to implement better caching technique. Site was down for some hours, I look what happened…it was an error, which I didn’t see any time before…

Thank you for donations!

I did not update donations list at main page – I will update it soon, but not of them will be visible, so here it is complete list of donors. Thank you for any donate, we appreciate that!

New statistics available

User Pko on forum asked me, if it is possible to create new statistics – how much subtitles downloads has user for last 6 months and for last 30 days. So now we can see, which users are really helpful to community.

Changed design on Forum

We switched to new design at forum – we hope you like it. Our aim is to have basically same design on main site, forum and on blog.

Next web server

We ordered and setuped next web server for OpenSubtitles.org. One webserver was not so powerfull as first one, so when you get data from this one, site was slow.

Request area

I wanted to code request area from scratch. You should ask why – I will tell you – it is simple. Request area have some really weird SQL code (some sub-querries) and it locks database, so whole sites works slower (or even did not work). So I have to disable request area of time being.