Vlsub 0.10.2 not working on "vlc-nightly" [Linux]

[Dssdiego]

It can search for a subtitle, but when trying to download the app stops responding.

Tested on

4.9.60-1-MANJARO #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Nov 2 13:08:20 UTC 2017 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Package:

vlc-nightly 3.0.0v20171022-1

[ThatLurker]

Sadly vlsub does not work "well" with other releases than the stable/current

[keremcankabadayi]

i can use properly Version 2.2.4 Weatherwax (Intel 64bit) on my Macbook Pro High Sierra 10.13.1 Beta.

[ThatLurker]

The nightly and github build of vlc seems to be missing the unzip "tool", based on other issues.¨

Also this might help you #179.

[bonswouar]

I'm having troubles too. Using with VLC 3.0.0, Debian Buster, VLsub 0.10.2, HTTP/1.0 or 1.1, perl 5.26.1... After some digging I found out that my problem was files downloaded have the gz extension although they are apparently zip files ! Any idea why ? Problem with opensubtitles api maybe ?

[ThatLurker]

I think this is the cause of the issues everyone is having.

function dump_zip(url, dir, subfileName)
  -- Dump zipped data in a temporary file
  setMessage(openSub.actionLabel..": "..progressBarContent(0))
  local resp = get(url)

  if not resp then 
    setError(lang["mess_no_response"])
    return false 
  end

  local tmpFileName = dir..slash..subfileName..".gz"
  if not file_touch(tmpFileName) then
    vlc.msg.dbg("[VLsub] Cant touch:"..tmpFileName)
    if openSub.conf.os == "win" then
      -- todo for windows
      return false
    else
      -- using tmp dir to download
      tmpFileName = "/tmp/"..subfileName..".gz"
      vlc.msg.dbg("[VLsub] Fixing to:"..tmpFileName)
    end
  end
  local tmpFile = assert(io.open(tmpFileName, "wb"))

  tmpFile:write(resp)
  tmpFile:flush()
  tmpFile:close()
  tmpFile = nil
  collectgarbage()
  return "zip://"..make_uri(tmpFileName)
    .."!/"..subfileName, tmpFileName
end

[bonswouar]

Right, is it normal the file extension is hardcoded ? (I don't know the api (EDIT: apparently we can keep that hardcoded as it uses ZipDownloadLink, to get the gz file instead it would be SubDownloadLink) Alhtough if I change it to zip the uncompressed srt is 0 byte. Don't know if there are any logs, it works manually though.

EDIT Ok there's a problem with zip still, seems related to https://github.com/exebetche/vlsub/issues/180 , weird

main debug: creating access: zip://file:///home/user/movie.srt main debug: looking for access module matching "zip": 28 candidates main debug: no access modules matched main error: no suitable access module for `zip://file:///home/user/movie.srt' lua warning: Error while running script /usr/share/vlc/lua/extensions/vlsub.lua, function (null)(): /usr/share/vlc/lua/extensions/vlsub.lua:1830: attempt to index local 'stream' (a nil value)