Re: subtitle search support in Kodi

[Jens Georg <mail jensge org>]

> On 02/10/2016 02:14 PM, Jens Georg wrote:
> > > > 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/HashSou
> > > rceC
> > > 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?
>
> The process used to be almost automatic.
> When you're playing a clip (episode, movie..), open subtitles menu.
> The last-used service is automatically searched using the Python
> plugin
> code.
> At this point, the list of matching subtitles would already show up.
>
> Right now, this point just returns "No subtitles found" and the only
> thing to do is to click "Manual search string" and enter the series
> name
> and season/episode numbers.
>
> Sounds like the md5 hash had nothing to do with it since the hash
> algorithm is different.. but somehow Kodi used to be aware of the
> name
> of the show and episode info.. and now it's not

The behaviour is exactly the same with 0.24 here, sorry.