Search and download subtitles while playing media
I would like to have back the ability to search and download subtitles inside the player like in Plex 8
+1 just like in XBMC indeed, would love to see that back.
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Hey Guys based on Elan's orig. thread post, instead of +1 posts, just up vote the suggested feature (click the green '+' in bottom right of said post).
Correct me if I’m wrong, but I don’t think Plex 8 ever had that functionality? 
I recall you could browse for a local file, but I don’t remember you being able to search online & download them.
(It’s a great idea, btw)
I would love this feature! Just like xbmc please!
Or maybe it’s an option te be able to surf for subtitles from within the new web library manager!
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Really want this feature! (I use a lot of time on finding, syncing subtitles etc., even though I use the opensubtitles agent).
It's been a long time, but I want to think there was a custom theme that had this feature included in somehow... I don't think it was ever in Plex itself.
Would love to see it added in, though.
Perhaps we should do as I proposed in the old suggestion thread found here: https://forums.plex.tv/topic/33363-subtitle-plugin-like-in-xbmc/#entry212518
Here is a paste of the suggestion (After you vote on this, do not forget to vote on the first post of this thread as well if you would like the idea of better subtitle support).
Me and a couple of guys in the Plex team wrote a suggestion which I very much would like to see. But it possibly doesn't fit into the Plex ecosystem as well as the other scanner/agent based solutions. After the initial draft most were happy, but two comments from different Plex Ninjas made us understand that not everyone agreed that this was the best way forward. Most of all they felt that the proposed solution was a bit to 'geeky'. And perhaps there is something to that comment. If a subtitle solution should be developed, it should cater to as many as possible. On the other hand, those two guys are not using subtitles themselves either, so maybe that automatically disqualifies them
Anyway, here is the second draft (not containing a huge amount of changes since the first draft, but some small). What would you guys change? What do you think?
Cross-platform in-client subtitle downloading
How does it work today?
* When a new video file is being noticed by the scanner, it is being scanned, analyzed and served to the agents defined in the section for which is has been classified by the scanner.
* The default subtitle agent (Opensubtitles) uses hash IDs to find a suitable match. But agents can be written so that it does not use hashes. Like the HDbits subtitles, Bierdopje and the Podnapisi agent.
* The subtitle files are saved into the PMS library (metadata-bundles) only.
* There is no way to choose subtitle files directly from the metadata sites from inside the clients. However, this is how the other metadata agents seems to work today as well (posters are downloaded by the agents and then the user can choose amongst them from within the client).
How we believe it should work "tomorrow"
* During scanning and various refresh methods the defined subtitle agents should work just as usual.
* When starting up a movie/show it will be evident to the user if a subtitle file is missing or not, or if the subtitle (found by the initial scan) is a good match or not. So here we need to present a super-fast way (from now on named "OSD subs feature") to activate the subtitle agents again (as the subtitles now may very well be in place on many of the sites used by the agents).
* The proposed way is a subtitle download button in the OSD windows next to the general control buttons. When clicking that button, a layered overlay window should be opened and contain 2 buttons and a search field.
- Automatically search and download subtitles (which is a button)
- Search field which is pre-populated with the actual filename, minus the suffix (i.e. MKV)
- A "Search" button next to the search field
- The search result should enable the user to pick a sub from whatever agent defined and whatever sort order is defined. This means, that the search overrides the subtitle agent priorities defined in PMS, and uses all activated agents to find subtitles.
The results from the search should be displayed as a list, from which the user can choose to download the one file he/she deems the best match.
* Subtitles are much like fish or... gadgets. It is only a valid commodity for a couple of months. After that the subtitles often gets packed into season packs by different sites. Not all that uncommonly these season packs are in a rar-package. This means we "need" to enable the users to store the subtitles in the movie/show directory: Give the ability to choose the subtitle location of subtitle files to be saved in the show folder as well. For example "Also save subtitle next to media". See "Reasoning behind it" for more info. NOTE: This is a "nice to have". There are external scripts that can be developed for it (which is already in the works).
* Preferbly the user should be able to connect a button on for example a Logitech Harmony to bring up the subtitle downloader overlay.
Reasoning behind it
* Home-made rips cannot be matched using hash ID’s.
* When using a client that’s not on the PMS machine, it makes it much easier to add a subtitle.
* If, during playback, the user noticed a subtitle isn’t in sync, he/she can easily search and switch to a new one, from within the OSD. It is not until you have taken seat in the sofa that you realize if the auto-download was successful or not, and we all know how hard it is to get up from the sofa...
* When accessing your library over mobile devices, there would be no other way to add a new subtitle.
* In the feature suggestion above we discussed the "need" of adding the subtitles files not only to the PMS library, but also to the media folder. The reasoning behind it, besides the fact that episode subtitles get grouped into season packs when a season is ended, is also the fact that Plex will be in beta for quite a long time. In the event of a corrupted or lost library (or other small mischiefs that happen sometimes), the user won’t lose all his saved subtitles. Not only wouldn't he lose the saved subtitles, he doesn't have to manually download the now-transformed-into season packed rar-files and unpack the files into the correct folders.
But as I mentioned earlier, this can be done outside of Plex if the developers deem this to be a non-client feature.
Nice to see that this one just received “Popular” status.
Jam, XBMC plugin was ported to PLex 8 and worked quite well. Some skins had functionality built-in , some were changed in order to provide extra screens needed.
This is the single most wanted feature I would like. I hate to TAB out just to download missing subtitles when you’re in mood to start watching a flick <_<
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Plug-in feature requests are obviously highly subjective but this really would be the one I’d like to see put in place.
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