Ray by OpenSubtitles.com

[tirdg 0]

I'm not sure if this is on anyone's radar, but I would love a plugin to make use of the new Ray project by OpenSubtitles.

See the kickstarter here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/techspecs/ray-watch-anything-understand-everything/description

There appear to be multiple usage modes, but integration into existing media servers like Emby is clearly one of them.

I think this is a perfect use case for AI and I also happen to think the state of subtitles (functionality, sync, subtitle creation, translation availability, etc.. ) is scandalously bad considering it's 2026. This will be a huge improvement that approaches something close to perfection right away. 

I also think they're approaching the project ethically by using models responsibly and only when necessary (when human-created subtitles don't exist). I also believe the generated subtitles for a given title are stored back to OpenSubtitles meaning theoretically once a given title has been analyzed and the subtitle files have been created, future calls for that subtitle would just be a download from OpenSubtitles just as we would expect. 

I think it's a great idea and look forward to using it in Emby!

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1 hour ago, tirdg said:

I also believe the generated subtitles for a given title are stored back to OpenSubtitles meaning theoretically once a given title has been analyzed and the subtitle files have been created, future calls for that subtitle would just be a download from OpenSubtitles just as we would expect. 

Correct.  Which means that, since we already have OS integration, we will be taking advantage of this anyway.

To me, this appears to be a clever way of them getting more contributions to their site.