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sydlexius

It would be great to find that one episode, of say, "Seinfeld" or "Black-ish" where someone told a particular joke or said a particular line.  Being able to search for a movie or episode using the contents of subtitles would be super useful. Bonus points if those results can link you directly to the referenced time code!

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Happy2Play

That would be an extremely long search process typing to search all media and read internal and external subtitles to find a specific phrase.  Who will wait for a search like this that will take a lot longer then a library scan?

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sydlexius

Even semi-relational databases like SQLite can do fast globular searches against text fields.  I'm not proposing that it scour disparate data sources in real-time.  If I were implementing such a feature, I'd pull in all of the text-base subtitles during the library scan into a database, then perform my queries against the appropriate tables.

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