I have a few videos I ripped from CDs that I’m loading onto a personal plex server, but all of them use the type of subtitles that will force the video to transcode.
Is there an easy place for finding .srt files? I figured this community would know…
Most that I download automatically have a subtitle when you finish the download. You have to play the file (I use VLC) and then I click on Subtitle and find out if it’s forced otlr regular subtitle. Then use Handbrake and burn in the forced (or regular subtitle, depending on what you want) and then add to my server. I do this so if Plex goes away then I won’t have to worry about it having built in subtitle support.
Literally never heard of it… .sub .srt .ass and a few others but not that one.
I’m a complete idiot, I meant srt files. My brain completely garbled that at 1am, no idea how I fucked that up.
I’m fixing the title, I’m dumb
In that case I can answer, though it might not be what you’re looking for. When I need a srt for something I do a web search for the title and where it came from, one of a couple sites show up in the results and then it’s just a matter of matching what you have with what you’re needing.
I’m being vague and not linking anything on purpose but it’s enough to go off of. It’s not automatic but it works for my purpose.
Long ago, I used opensubtitles website and then this tool https://github.com/alexanderwink/subdl but lately I always get movies with English subs and just go with it, even tho it’s not my native language
Vlsub feature of VLC (View -> vlsub) is the easiest way I found:
Christ on a bike, I didn’t know this existed! Big thanks from this deaf cunt
this will download subtitles for all movies in current directory:
subliminal --opensubtitles registeredusername mypassword download -v -l en -p opensubtitles --force --single .
