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Pulsar addon for XBMC/Kodi
http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=200957
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Feature: Evaluate subtitle availability and download before streaming #49

Open guindous opened 9 years ago

guindous commented 9 years ago

Imagine this situation. You find a movie/serie to watch, but you don't know if there is available subtitle for your native language. So you start streaming and waits the buffering. After some seconds/minutes the stream starts, so you stop it and look for the subtitle in any subtitle provider. Now, if there is no subtitle available you lost your initial streaming time without reason, because that's something that could be checked before. But, let suppose, you're know positively there is available subtitles. So, there is a new problem, the stream is "pushing the limits" of the broadband network, then the subtitle services doesn't responds or sometimes result in http timeouts, because there is no enough bandwidth for subtitle search and download.

So my idea is to search and download subtitles before streaming the torrent by some specific Pulsar function. I know Pulsar relies subtitles managment in Kodi available interface and subtitle services. But maybe is possible to hook the subtitle search and download in the movie/serie contextual menu so this operation could be done before.

nikalexis commented 9 years ago

This is what I tried to describe in issue #45 I will be a perfect feature especially for people that using subtitles a lot (foreigners).