How Long Are Subtitles Searched For?

[randomevents 38]

Large library, enabled subtitle downloads and the task has been running for over an hour for the past couple of days. So my question is, when does the server stop looking for subtitles for a particular item (a week, two weeks, a month)?

[Luke 42086]

It never does because new subtitles are submitted to opensubtltles every day.

[randomevents 38]

(I haven't looked at the source yet to see what's going on behind the scenes).

 

That's not ideal, especially from a large library perspective (5.2k movies 27k tv shows) that has a significant amount of items that predate the last 10 or 15 years that will most likely never have subtitles unless I sit down with and transcribe them myself.

 

Right now I'm looking at a log full of open subtitle timeouts, what seems to be unnecessary ffprobes and seeing mass disk activity as it rereads NFOs for files without subtitles. The latter part is weird because the available stream info is already in the database.

 

Considering that you can search from within a item for subtitles, there should be an option to limit the time frame of date added items that the subtitle searcher adds to its queue (I'd be happy to submit a feature request or add it to my to do list).

 

One last thing I'm noticing is that it's redownloading subtitles without a language modifier "title.srt" for "title.eng.srt" (I can write a script to fix the file naming).

 

Is the scheduler at least prioritizing recently added items before it goes after the rest of the library?

[Luke 42086]

What you could do is disable the scheduled task for subtitles and then whenever those items are refreshed them at that time it will try to download them.

[randomevents 38]

SImple solution, but doesn't that leave new episodes of TV in the lurch?

[CBers 7474]

Another thread on a similar topic.

 

https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/48738-subtitles-what-is-the-criteria-used-to-download-missing-subtitles/

 

Not exactly the same, but might give some background.

[randomevents 38]

Thanks for the link. It didn't occur toe to use the word "age" when searching this topic.

 

It looks like I'm going to have to turn off the subtitles scheduled task. I just spent the evening renaming all the subtitles that are missing a language suffix in the title to prevent re-downloads, and I'm left with 12 thousand episodes and movies and movies without subtitles (well srt subs, didn't inventory idx/sub). With the module's current behavior it's just going to be hitting those over and over again till the heat death of the universe.