exebetche
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9 years ago Yes, adding multiple sources for subtitles is the most required feature. In fact I started working on this just before Vlc 2.1 came out but I never finished, since I wasn't sure if the extension will work again (with the net module removal). I don't plan to "move" to another source, just add the possibility to use custom script to search and download from multiple websites, because opensubtitles offers multiple advantages, like a huge database of movie hash and release names that allow to get subs with right sync in just one click for almost any file.
About their decision to put ads in the subtitles, I wouldn't be too hard on them. Yes, people grab subtitles from any sources or communities and upload them to OS, but again you can find people copy-pasting things on any content sharing website on the web, that's the way it works. And I don't think they use ads to make money, if you look at their stats¹, you can see they get up to 4 millions subtitles requests on weekend days -probably in a short time span. That plus the requests to search the subtitles, the ddos that came with the notoriety... no free website can cope with this kind of load without a little commercial support.
On the main subject, I'm working on the "multi sources" feature now, not sure when I'll be able to finish it.
¹http://www.opensubtitles.org/en/statistics
aloisdg
GAL18H
bhankas
Why ?
OpenSubtitle leech contents from addic7ed community and add ads. They propose to register as VIP member to remove ads.
How ?
If they read contents from their website, we could to. There are repo on github.
If you are looking for others providers, there is a thread about this in PopcornTime's forum.
This issue is kind of relative to issue #88.
Thank you.