When using the Plex UI to search for and add an SRT file for a movie, I frequently end up with subtitle files that contain moderately sketchy looking references to websites or other advertisements at the beginning or end of the movie. Would be nice if there was a way to vet and limit the sources used in this search, so we knew we were getting clean files.
is it opensubtitles.org? If so that’s normal.
if the file was downloaded from somewhere and the subs are embedded - good chance they were put there by whoever encoded the file. People who encode stuff often do things like this, go have a look at all the extended tags in music metadata some time.
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I’m not referring to subtitles already embedded within the files or ones that I manually upload into the system. I’m only referring to the “Search…” built into the Plex UI that goes out and finds subtitles for a show based on the show’s title. The one that spawns this dialog box:
What I’m saying is that if this feature is going to built into the Plex UI and used by people who are not pirating content, then maybe it should use a different, cleaner source for the subtitles so that non-pirates don’t have to wade through those file names and see garbage ads for unscrupulous sites injected into the text.
I know the source is opensubtitles. I know the ads are “normal” for that source. What I’m saying is that maybe Plex should find a cleaner source.
Search searches public non profit databases. Some of these databases are made possible by donations and occasional “brought to you by” type advertisements, similar to NPR. We are thankful for the hard work done by others, and we are not entitled to it. If they wish to include periodic advertisements in exchange for their work, I think the general consensus is that this is perfectly fair.
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if you are “not pirating” rip the subs too.
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2022 clean-up: considered abandoned; 3rd party source
