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davidde / mpv-autosub

Fully automatic subtitle downloading for the MPV media player
https://mpv.io/
MIT License
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Autosub fails to find subtitles when playing videos from URL in MPV, but succeeds when playing downloaded files #42

Closed mortyobnoxious closed 6 months ago

mortyobnoxious commented 1 year ago

Most of the time, when I use services like Seedr to paste a video URL and play it in MPV, the autosub script doesn't find subtitles. However, if I download the same video file to my disk and play it, autosub is able to find subtitles.

To illustrate, let's take the example of playing a movie from YouTube by pasting its URL (e.g., https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOZQ_9Ga-bE) in MPV. When I do this, autosub fails to find subtitles. However, if I download the video with the same title and play it using MPV, autosub successfully finds subtitles. This is just an example.

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The issue seems to be that autosub relies on finding a location on disk to save the subtitles. If it can't locate this location, it reports "no subtitles." (I really don't know the real reason btw, just a guess)

I'm wondering if there's a way to incorporate subtitles directly, similar to the code snippet below, when playing a streamed video (URL) in MPV without being have to save subtitles to disk and instead paste it from URL like below.

function suPaste ()
    local clipboard = get_clipboard()
    mp.commandv("sub_add", clipboard)
    mp.osd_message('Pasted subtitle!')
end