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Re: Show HN: DropSubs – Download subtitles for video files

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Post by wixo »

xamolxix wrote: post #11
greenwalls wrote: post #5

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.

Re: Show HN: DropSubs – Download subtitles for video files

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Post by nim901 »

wixo wrote: post #20
nim901 wrote: post #17

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…

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?

Re: Show HN: DropSubs – Download subtitles for video files

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Post by Walkman »

hierro wrote: post #8
pmosh wrote: post #2

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: !

Re: Show HN: DropSubs – Download subtitles for video files

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Post by toomuchtodo »

wixo wrote: post #22
sprremix wrote: post #10

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?

Re: Show HN: DropSubs – Download subtitles for video files

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Post by toomuchtodo »

hierro wrote: post #8
pmosh wrote: post #2

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).

Thank you so much. This looks fantastic!

Re: Show HN: DropSubs – Download subtitles for video files

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Post by philgr »

hierro wrote: post #8
pmosh wrote: post #2

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).

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.

Re: Show HN: DropSubs – Download subtitles for video files

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Post by onli »

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.

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