Re: subtitle search support in Kodi

[Jens Georg <mail jensge org>]

> > What I've noticed was that the subtitle plugin used to search for
> > some
> > sort of hash (possibly md5 of the video file?), but how just says
> > "primary_http.mp4" -- and this can't be mapped to a subtitles file.
> >
> > Is this fixable?

> I'm using OpenSubtitles plugin, looks like nowadays it has to be
> installed manually because of some licensing issues (?)
> https://github.com/amet/service.subtitles.opensubtitles/releases/tag/
> 5.0.14b
>
> The hash process is described here:
> http://trac.opensubtitles.org/projects/opensubtitles/wiki/HashSourceC
> odes

Ok. the algorithm says it calculates the hash from the first and last
64k of the file. I don't see any such seek operation when trying to
download the subtitle. If I manually download the subtitle, the file is
saved to addons/tmp/GUID.srt and copied over to
temp/primary_http.ext.srt.

Can you exactly describe what used to work and what doesn't now?