2024-01-04, 16:06
(2024-01-04, 15:26)HeresJohnny Wrote: [rant]
I avoid opensubtitles like the plague. They want to make a living off of other users who build these subtitles from scratch or time them correctly. Many of those subtitles are even under copyright by the respective rights owners so it just feels wrong that there should be a fee involved in getting them from a third party. If anything, opensubtitles should pay the rights owners for distributing their content.
To add insult to injury, opensubtitles always alters the subtitles by injectiing some stupid ad or other which one has to watch at the beginning and end. Again, at least part of that revenue should go to the rights owners. Thank god for the subtitle cleaner add-on...
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I completely agree! I used to work for the National Captioning Institute as a Program Engineer back around 2001. opensubtitles does not own these, but I guess they are paying to store them on their servers and make them searchable and downloadable, so they are doing something.
But, when I try the other ones, there are either no results or I get a message saying "see error log for details".
That brings me to another point: Where are these error logs? The typical Kodi.log doesn't show anything from these subtitles.
Why does it have to be so hard to see what the issue is? Is there some big conspiracy with Kodi that prevents me from just seeing the error message on the screen? I mean, a pop-up that says, "username/password combination not found" or "website URL does not exist" is actually helpful. Even if a visitor or one of my kids sees it, that is useful information. "See error log for details" is just irritating. At least give me the option to display the actual message on the screen.
