subtitles and setting proxy

Hi All,

 

Its been a while since I last wrote some plex addons and I am looking to make a few more.  The video files I am streaming also has a link to the SRT file for subtitles, how would I add this?  I don't see any "subtitles" property @ http://dev.plexapp.com/docs/api/objectkit.html, is it possible to set it? 

 

While it is possible to use urllib/urllib2 and creating the request object by hand to set a proxy to the connection, it would mean I would lose the buitin caching functionality in JSON.ObjectFromURL, is it possible to set a proxy to JSON.ObjectFromURL or something?

 

Thanks,

Subtitles are not (currently) supported for channel content. There has been discussion/requests about adding that support for quite a while but no ETA.  The only way to include subs for channels now is if the content provider includes a stream with the subs "burned-in".

The channel framework does not support using proxies either. None of the "...FromURL" or HTTP.Request() functions will allow it. I suspect it's possible to implement your own using other libraries but as you guessed, then you would not have access to the Framework's built-in caching.

Subtitles support in channels is a big issue for me and i'd wager for a lot more users.

From what i see in the forums it is a feature that is talked about for at least a year. Is there any way to push this thing? Perhaps a poll to prove it's necessity? 

The is a features and bugs voting forum available to Plex Pass users.

This topic was automatically closed 90 days after the last reply. New replies are no longer allowed.