Autofind subtitles

[odahcam]

This is a feature-request

What did you expect to happen?

I want to click on the subtitles button and the player antumatically searches for subtitles for the video I'm playing. This behavior can be found in bitLord client, which has awesome features and terrible performance and UX.

What actually happened?

I can only add subtitles files.

Also interesting

VLC player has a searcher that searches for subtitles on the web, but BitLord's one is by far better than anything I've ever used. That's an awesome feature and I'd like to see that in here.

[feross]

We're unlikely to add a feature like this because it's unclear whether using subtitles like this is okay. However, can you link to a webpage that explains how this VLC functionality works so I can read about it?

[odahcam]

Sure! Here's some:

• https://www.maketecheasier.com/get-vlc-to-download-subtitles/
• https://github.com/exebetche/vlsub

[feross]

Hmm, if VLC is shipping this now, then let's consider it. Leaving this open to remind me to look into it.

[feross]

Oh, this belongs on the webtorrent-desktop issue tracker: webtorrent/webtorrent-desktop#1383

[odahcam]

Very nice, thanks.