VLC and automatic subtitles?

Question

I used to watch my movies and series with VLC, but I got tired of always having to download the subtitles.
A long time ago, I read something about a VLC plugin to automatically download subtitles.

Do you have any idea? What do you use to do this task? Do you do it manually?

I'm on Mac OS X.

Answer 1

Sublight automatically downloads subtitles, it works well with movies but I don't how good it works with TV shows, and it's a standalone software not a VLC plugin.

Answer 2

Extensions did recently become a part of VLC, but there is currently very little information floating around about them. I do recall seeing a subtitles extension in the nightlies a while ago, but it didn't work at the time. Perhaps that's worth a look.

There are a couple of applications out there for this purpose:

• SubDownloader -- Open source, cross-platform but shareware on Windows (?!). Last I checked it didn't work, presumably due to an API change. When it did work it was pretty good.
• Sublight -- Windows only.
• SolEol -- Cross-platform, broken last I checked.
• FileBot -- Cross-platform

I haven't found a solution that I like yet, so I decided to slowly develop my own. Currently I use a combination of Google, OpenSubtitles and TVsubtitles. I recently tested FileBot and found it to work very well.

Answer 3

LUA script to search and download subtitles directly in VLC => http://addons.videolan.org/content/show.php?content=141787

Answer 4

I was looking into this isssue the other day and I found out that it can be done by using LUA-scripts. Here is the page on the VideoLan-forum which talks about subtitles.

Hope that this was what you were looking for.

Answer 5

Now there is VLSUB. This extension can search either based on the video hash or its IMDB title. Available here: http://addons.videolan.org/content/show.php?content=148752