Subtitles - Open Subtitles Foreign

[kingy444 117]

I am yet to use the automatic subtitles downloader - nor am I terribly fussed on having subtitles for every movie.

 

In the list of languages - I was hoping there could be some way for you to identify those subtitles on the site that are english/foreign only. ie. I would like to fetch subtitles for an English movie/tv show that contain content in a non-english language, not necessarily wanting subtitles for the whole thing, just the part i cant understand.

[ebr 16178]

Maybe I don't understand exactly what you are asking for but those types of subtitles are called "Forced" subs typically and don't we already have this?

[kingy444 117]

Maybe I don't understand exactly what you are asking for but those types of subtitles are called "Forced" subs typically and don't we already have this?

 

We have them - and i use them

 

After the Subtitles section being able to download them automatically.

[Luke 42078]

Open subtitles api doesn't have that.

[kingy444 117]

Open subtitles api doesn't have that.

 

Well thats handy - do you know if anyone has requested an enhancement?

 

I'm happy to raise something on behalf of the emby team.

[Luke 42078]

I don't know sorry but feel free to lead the way.

[kingy444 117]

I don't know sorry but feel free to lead the way.

 

@@Luke - this is the response from the opensubtitles team. having not used their api personally i thought you might be able to provide me with the answer rather than writing some calls myself. wasnt exactly sure what they are referring to, i assume to gui?

I understand, I can add it if really needed. In responses you got this flag, so you can filter in responses..? 

[Luke 42078]

What flag?

[kingy444 117]

What flag?

 

that is the response i got back from the opensubtitles team - my assumption is he means a flag for foreign only. i havent seen the api response so thought it might make more sense to you, but i dont see an option for this in the drop gui search either. Most of the time they add it to the title or comments of the subs.

 

Perhaps i should suggest adding another language to their site, so in languages you can search 'English' or 'English - Foreign Parts Only' - that would sort the problem out without you even needing to code anything right?

[Luke 42078]

well that would be messy because they'd have to do that for every language.

[ebr 16178]

Again, I think what you are looking for is "forced" as "Foreign" is entirely dependent on context.

[kingy444 117]

@@Luke @@ebr

 

The developer clarified and advised the following:

 

• Original question was whether we needed to be able to filter on any 'foreign parts only' in the results
• The confusion came from the fact that This is already in their returned results   
• The developer advised that SearchSubtitles() calls already return SubForeignPartsOnly =0 or =1 (boolean in the db)
  Their question was basically 'we can put it in the filter if you really need, but you should be able to filter once you get the results'

Could you confirm if you see something similar in the results of this call?

I note its not listed in the doco here http://trac.opensubtitles.org/projects/opensubtitles/wiki/XmlRpcSearchSubtitles - but the developer believes they are returning the info

 

If this is there and we can get this into EMBY i guess you would need to make sure you have an option to download:

• the selected language only
• the selected lanugage and the foreign parts only
• the foreign parts only in the selected language

[Luke 42078]

Great investigation.

[kingy444 117]

Great investigation.

 

If its not in the results - it would be great if you could provide me a copy of your test results - i can then pass that back to the developer. Hopefully its all there and it just works

[Innate 1]

Has there been anything new in regards to this? From what kingy444 found it seems you would just need a way for us users to disable or enable SubForeignPartsOnly when Emby does a search.

[Luke 42078]

Has there been anything new in regards to this? From what kingy444 found it seems you would just need a way for us users to disable or enable SubForeignPartsOnly when Emby does a search.

 

I don't see that option listed in the opensubttitles search api:

 

http://trac.opensubtitles.org/projects/opensubtitles/wiki/XmlRpcSearchSubtitles