Best way to get subtitles?

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I use Sonarr, SABnzbz and Plex. Previously I would download and the English subtitles would be there but lately it isn’t happening. Which program handles that?

I searched in the Plex forum and saw something about making sure the OpenSubtitles.org source is checked. I have done that and wonder if that will fix it or is there something in Sonarr I should be doing?

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Sonarr does not copy any additional files atm, so the only way you are getting subs from sonarr is if they are embedded in the mkv. This only happens with some web-dls.

There are various way to run subtitle downloaders, i personally like autosub-bootstrapbill because it best caters to my dutch needs.
Plex opensubtitle plugin is another.

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I use a cron script with subliminal. Usually I have it scheduled 6 hours after the download time which is about midday here.

And if I don’t catch any by the time, kodi also has an auto subtitle search when you’re starting to play the file.

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OK thanks. I guess I’ll wait and see if OpenSubtitles.org picks anything up.

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@subzero79 can you provide more help on subliminal. I’m interested on it to download from addicted but i was lost on the cli. What is the script that you are using ?

thanks

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is just bash i have a cron like this

SERIES="/media/7283242e-cb09-40ea-a27e-a91e58cd3dc6/TV"
find "$SERIES" -type f \( -iname "*.mp4" -o -iname "*.mkv" -o -iname "*.avi" \)  -size +50M -mtime -15 -execdir subliminal download -l en -l es {} \;

for addicted it should be like subliminal --addict7ed user pass download -l en -l es {} \;

The mtime is so it doesn’t go through the whole tree with old files. The size is just to avoid samples or other non-wanted stuff.

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thanks subzero79,

ok stupid question, i downloaded the zip from github but i don’t find any subliminal.py inside. what am i missing ?
noobie in ubuntu

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You should be able to install with pip repo in terminal.

pip install subliminal

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ok, i did it, it worked ! thanks

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subliminal works fine although since i rename the shows to Showname 1x02 with no scene on the filename i get a few out of synch releases but i can manage.

Is there any plan on integrating automatic subtitles download from within sonarr ?

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