{"id":127,"date":"2008-12-17T14:58:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-17T04:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.serenux.com\/?p=127"},"modified":"2021-01-14T15:01:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-14T05:01:00","slug":"subtitle-downloader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.serenux.com\/index.php\/2008\/12\/17\/subtitle-downloader\/","title":{"rendered":"Subtitle Downloader"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I\u2019m a big fan of simple applications that fill a big void or annoyance in life, and one of those annoyances is finding suitable subtitle files (.srt files) for your movie rips. To fill this void is a simple application called&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20160311191358\/http:\/\/www.getdeb.net\/app\/SubDownloader\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">SubDownloader<\/a>&nbsp;that does its best to crawl the \u2018net for suitable subtitle files for whatever movie you select in the file browser.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Download the application\u2019s .deb file from the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20160311191358\/http:\/\/www.getdeb.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">GetDeb<\/a>&nbsp;website and install it with:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">$ sudo dpkg -i subdownloader_2.0.9-1~getdeb1_all.deb<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(or if you\u2019re afraid of the command line, just double-click it within a window to launch the GUI version of the Package Installer instead \u2013 either way will take care of the QT4 and Python dependencies for you)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2026and that\u2019s it. now just fire it up from the\u00a0<em>Applications->Sound &amp; Video<\/em>\u00a0menu, browse to your movie folder and let the app find the subtitles for you. Sweet!\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20160311191358im_\/http:\/\/www.serenux.com\/wp-content\/themes\/grey-opaque\/images\/smilies\/icon_smile.gif\" alt=\"Smilie: :)\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20160315124121if_\/http:\/\/www.serenux.com\/~hyrax\/snaps\/SubDownloaderInAction.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You don\u2019t have to search by your collection, though \u2013 you can do a regular title search as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20160315124124if_\/http:\/\/www.serenux.com\/~hyrax\/snaps\/SubDownloader_SearchByTitle.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The selected subtitles are then downloaded into the same directory as your source video, allowing you to execute them in Totem or other subtitle-supporting player right away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20160315124127if_\/http:\/\/www.serenux.com\/~hyrax\/snaps\/BatmanWithDownloadedSubtitles.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Simple, yet effective. This really should be in the Ubuntu repositories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m a big fan of simple applications that fill a big void or annoyance in life, and one of those annoyances is finding suitable subtitle files (.srt files) for your movie rips. To fill this void is a simple application called&nbsp;SubDownloader&nbsp;that does its best to crawl the \u2018net for suitable subtitle files for whatever movie [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tutorials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.serenux.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.serenux.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.serenux.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.serenux.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.serenux.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.serenux.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":128,"href":"https:\/\/www.serenux.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions\/128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.serenux.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.serenux.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.serenux.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}