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Show HN: DropSubs – Download subtitles for video files

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Consider making English the default language choice since the rest of the website is already in English anyway. Cool site!

And also maybe allow for more than one language, or "Any". I have got an application error on the actual download page, so I'm not sure if that is already being offered there.

I've tried to make it really simple to use, after the first setup you should only visit the page for one use, drag and drop. A really quick fix for trying with another language is opening the webapp in a incognito mode.

Please let me use it as well: Consider adding a "click here to select file" button starting a filepicker. Without a filemanager drag and drop is unuseable.

It would not only be helpful to support the 0,0…01% of people who will see this without having a file manager available, it will also help those users who pick you site as a starting point to not have to start an additional thing (like the explorer) to get to the video file.

Hi guys, author here, as far as I have tested it is working with Chrome and Firefox in desktop (where you can drag and drop) It really depends on if the subtitle is in the Open Subtitles API or not, it tries to search for the best suitable subtitle there. I've only tested with spanish and english languages but I am planning on improving the localization of the app.

Thanks for the feedback and glad some of you are finding use in it.

Brillant way to honeypot and mark IPs for MPAA. Not implying that's the case, just considering the possibilities.

Very nice! I think that there is a bug - I've tried to download subtitles for a movie, with Hebrew subtitles - and I've got to "Your subtitle is downloading" but nothing happens..

also, where do you get the subtitles?

BTW, if any of you are looking for a desktop based app, you can also check SubiT http://subit-app.sourceforge.net/ or the source https://github.com/subit/SubiT, It should work on windows, linux and osx. We are now working on version 3

Open Subtitles API, if there is no downloading maybe the subtitle does not exist there or it is a problem with the browser, I have only tested with Chrome and Firefox.

haha, just noticed the menu on the left.

any way, I also have chrome. now when i'm trying i get this error message " Application Error An error occurred in the application and your page could not be served. Please try again in a few moments. If you are the application owner, check your logs for details." I guess that it's because of the load?

Welp.. http://81.4.109.233/i/19_55_22-DE_Application_Error_-_Google...

Yup that is happening when Open Subtitles API shutdown, I need to try catch the error, please try again ;)

When/why did they shut their API down?

Thanks! I was looking for subs to this one movie for really long time and you found it for me! Got a suggestion:

There are too many messages before I can download the subtitles. Perhaps dropping a file could take me straight to the language picker, and selecting the language will immediately result in download?

Never mind, I see you already implemented it. Cheers!

dropped an avi on it and it just downloade dit. touch handler not registered?

[edit] ah: i have to click through 3 intro dialogs first. suggestion: make that howto persistent on the page and make it work when you first land on it. Also, ask me to specify a language after dropping the file possibly

Can't view on mobile, says browser is not supported. Would like to see anyway

I have always been dreaming of a browser extension that could detect the video element on a page, and "inject" subtitle on the video.

Then we can watch Hulu or Netflix in another language besides English.

- http://amara.org/en/ does this for YouTube vids

- http://www.viki.com 's business model is licensing TV content and streaming it to foreign markets with crowdsourced subs (which end up being higher quality than the "professional" subs of their main competitor DramaFever because the subbers have a better set of motivations, such as preserving the origin culture)

If suggest making a more informative page for mobile browsers. I understand tge mobile browsers like safari mobile don't support the tech you need, but at least tell me what your web app is.

Just tested it with a few movies, work great!

But I got some problems with the encoding, which didn't accept non-latin characters. Maybe encode it with UTF8/Unicode before sending it to the user.

Cool, but my XBMC as well as SMplayer can automatically serach and download subtitles. This kind of functionality should be built in any player.

SMPlayer does not have a mac os x edition anymore. It's my favorite player on other platforms though and I love the subtitles feature.

I can't recommend the VLC extension VLSUB enough. If you like/need subtitles, definitely try it out.

I thought it was never updated for the latest VLC version. Would update my extension file then, thanks.

Any chance of getting Japanese added?

However, this may also reveal the fact that your IP address is 'pirating' movies.

Pretty cool.

I've been using SolEol for months and it's pretty great.

It's better to improve the design of the website

moviebeem.com does the same, drag drop to search subtitles

Subtítulos.app is same but for mac desktop.

It's free and available for both Windows and Mac and you can download it at http://subtitlesapp.com (disclaimer: I'm the developer).

Wow, that's a really good app! I wanted to develop my own, but now I will use this.

Post it as Show HN: !

Thank you so much. This looks fantastic!

I use Subtitles for months and it has been pretty good. I wonder what's the parameter to select the best subtitle for the release, I'd suggest that the user badge is more important than the number of downloads.

Lately I've been using Subtitles a bit less because I got a VIP subscription on OpenSubtitles, so when I download from the site I skip ads. Would be incredible to download the subtitles as VIP on Subtitles though.

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