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Wheemer

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Wheemer

I have subtitles setup correctly, and they used to download almost all automatically. However lately it doesn't download any at all.

 

When I search the file names directly on opensubtitles.org it finds them right away.

 

I already disabled only download exact matching subs.

 

Do subtitles work reliably for anyone?

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Check to make sure your login credentials are still in Emby. 

 

I asked a year or so ago to have a confirmation that they are correct when hitting save but it still isn't confirmed.

 

I get a lot of failed downloads but also have them too so I'm not sure what is going on.

 

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Can we get a confirmation that the login creds to OpenSubtitles is correct at least so we can rule that out as an issue?

 

Thanks!

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Wheemer

My credentials are correct.

 

I am seeing: "OpenSubtitleDownloader: Episode information missing" in the logs. And there is no error for thesubdb, just doesn't work either.

 

I see lots of episodes without subs, yet when I run the get missing subs task some of the episode clearly without subs are not even checked according to the log file.

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Wheemer

I'm not certain I understand how to check that? They all appear and function properly from within Kodi Embycon, and within the emby web interface.

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Try using the metadata editor in Emby on one of the episodes. Then in that editor, see if it has a season and episode number listed.

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Wheemer

Yes they are listed there properly, this seems to happen on many different episodes. Also Thesubdb doesn't show an error yet no sub.

 

What about forcing a subtitle search that includes all files, since there's many that it seems to skip that I can't see mentioned in the logs after a scan from tasks.

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Wheemer

That explains some of the ones that show up in the log. But Wentworth (2013) - S06E12 - Showdown seems to be there but is not downloaded. I also have other shows like Outlander.S04E01 that have result but seem to be skipped.

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Q-Droid

Just to add my $0.02...may or may not be related...

 

The OpenSubtitles API (theirs, not Emby) is a bit flaky. In my experience the automatic downloads are hit-or-miss, around 30% success rate. I can often do a manual subtitle update/search for a movie or episode, hit the search button within the same window more than once and it will alternate between results and no results.

 

I also disabled the scheduled task to "Download Missing Subtitles" because it was throwing "too many requests" errors from OpenSubtitles and I have a paid subscription with them.

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Wheemer

I have been experimenting with a program called subdownloader2. When I scan my media folders it find tons of english srt files for videos that emby can't.

 

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Wheemer

Perhaps it is the problem with the API as you suggest. I have a user who is hearing impaired so this is a big problem for them. I have not been able to get them to watch anything through Kodi because the subs are missing or wrong so often.

 

I keep trying to revisit the issue, but seems the problems remain.

 

I really wish the releases where put out with the srt already included (dreaming)...

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Wheemer

I was experimenting with another software called VideoProc. It seems to be able to see the embedded subtitles within the video file itself.

 

Is there not a way to add that feature to Emby? Instead relying on external sites to get an accurate srt, couldn't emby somehow extract it?

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We already support embedded subtitles, but extraction can take a long time. External text subtitles is recommended.

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