Strange strings in name for subtitles search

[roeiegans 0]

Hello,

I'm a complete newbie to this, so sorry if it is an obvious question. My problem:

I have a working add-on in my Kodi installation (Emby for kodi next gen 9.4.19). Everything seems to work fine, my library is loaded, i can play the files. However when i try to download a subtitle through Kodi, it shows very strange filenames with large strings in front of the name, like this:

e-8129-3a4a00005f7219f238530f473996636ed7-2267-27006-1-1-0-0-0-0-h264-8171679-ac3384000--supergirl.s03e08.1080p.HDTV.x264_PLUTONIUM.mkv

Because of this no subtitle is found. When I do a manual search on "supergirl.s03e08.1080p.HDTV.x264_PLUTONIUM.mkv" it does come with results. Furthermore in the above case it shows the actual filename after "--", but this is not always the case. For instance another show has an actual filename on disk of "Allo Allo S1E01 - The Fallen Madonna.mkv" and is shown ther as "e-274-<rest of large string as above>--Allo_Allo_S01E01___The_fallen_Madonna.mkv" .

1. Where are these strings coming from and how to get rid of them?
2. And where are the last part filenames (Allo_Allo_S01E01___The_fallen_Madonna.mkv) coming from and why is this not the actual filename?

Hope you can help me with this.

 

[quickmic 1352]

5 hours ago, roeiegans said:

Hello,

I'm a complete newbie to this, so sorry if it is an obvious question. My problem:

I have a working add-on in my Kodi installation (Emby for kodi next gen 9.4.19). Everything seems to work fine, my library is loaded, i can play the files. However when i try to download a subtitle through Kodi, it shows very strange filenames with large strings in front of the name, like this:

e-8129-3a4a00005f7219f238530f473996636ed7-2267-27006-1-1-0-0-0-0-h264-8171679-ac3384000--supergirl.s03e08.1080p.HDTV.x264_PLUTONIUM.mkv

Because of this no subtitle is found. When I do a manual search on "supergirl.s03e08.1080p.HDTV.x264_PLUTONIUM.mkv" it does come with results. Furthermore in the above case it shows the actual filename after "--", but this is not always the case. For instance another show has an actual filename on disk of "Allo Allo S1E01 - The Fallen Madonna.mkv" and is shown ther as "e-274-<rest of large string as above>--Allo_Allo_S01E01___The_fallen_Madonna.mkv" .

1. Where are these strings coming from and how to get rid of them?
2. And where are the last part filenames (Allo_Allo_S01E01___The_fallen_Madonna.mkv) coming from and why is this not the actual filename?

Hope you can help me with this.

 

1. This is part of the url string (the url filename) and is correct in addon mode.

2. The actual filename is attached at the end of the url's filename to keep Kodi "happy".

So nothing wrong here. btw, the actual filename is not "Allo_Allo_S01E01___The_fallen_Madonna.mkv" it's "supergirl.s03e08.1080p.HDTV.x264_PLUTONIUM.mkv" and I doubt the subtitle downloader would find that one even it's only labeled like that.

On the other hand, if you label your files accurate, subtitle downloader is mostly capable to download even with the extra url-parameters.

Edited April 19 by quickmic