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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.

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see related answer superuser.com/a/571293/162573. In OS X there may be a problem, but I hope not with both extensions. subdownloader is free in osx i guess – cipricus Mar 25 at 17:59

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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.

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thanks for your answer, but i forgot to specify i was on MacOs... – Arkan Oct 27 '10 at 18:04
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LUA script to search and download subtitles directly in VLC => http://addons.videolan.org/content/show.php?content=141787

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In this discussion it was mentioned that extensions with custom windows aren't supported yet on Mac OS X. – haggai_e Dec 4 '11 at 15:44
How to install LUA extension in VLC? The documentation is missing... – Jakub Narębski Jun 11 '12 at 16:26
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@JakubNarębski - how to install lua scripts in vlc: Windows (all users): %ProgramFiles%\VideoLAN\VLC\lua\extensions\. Linux (current user): ~/.local/share/vlc/lua/extensions/. Mac OS X (all users): /Applications/VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/lua/extensions/ – cipricus Mar 25 at 18:02
to save subs (not just display) see adjusted version of the extension in my answer and in the comments on the page of addons.videolan.org – cipricus Apr 1 at 23:26
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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.

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Thanks for your contribution ;) – Arkan Oct 28 '10 at 20:04
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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

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This works just fine on my Mac! ty – Vitim.us Apr 28 at 6:34
recently updated, gives better results than before – cipricus yesterday
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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.

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VLSub on the Videolan addons page was recently updated, with new search options.

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Subtitle Finder: Get the subtitles of movies from the internet, currently only from OpenSubtitles.org (just displays subs, doesn't saves them).

An advanced Subtitle Finder (Windows&Linux) modified version to save subtitles can be downloaded here, and is currently developed and discussed here -

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I like to use them both in parallel, although the latest updated version of VLSub has equaled the advantage that Subtitle Finder had before, as the two projects seem related.

So, keep an eye on their latest versions.

How to install lua scripts in vlc:

Windows (all users): %ProgramFiles%\VideoLAN\VLC\lua\extensions.

Linux (current user): ~/.local/share/vlc/lua/extensions/.

Mac OS X (all users): /Applications/VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/lua/extensions/

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