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Cool stuff, I've had similar ideas but can never figure out the best approach to go about it. Just coming up with an approach that makes some kind of sense is a

Cool stuff, I've had similar ideas but can never figure out the best approach to go about it. Just coming up with an approach that makes some kind of sense is an achievement in itself! How do you go about syncing the subtitles? For huge films it's generally not a bother as the top subtitles will often be from the same source (and therefore follow similar formatting rules, if nothing else) but you can get pretty wide deviations when you get down to things with fewer subtitle options available.

m3tr0s 8y ago
Thank you! Yes, actually it is the 3rd iteration on the implementation of the idea. Handpicked movies are subtitle pairs which were selected carefully to be in sync (both of them are webrip/webdl/nf). The sync itself is done by simple intersection, and the user can delay the subtitles to each other by an offset value (available clicking on the cog icon). It can help fixing the differences like the first subtitle file includes the intro/theme song, but the second doesn't. If the cut is totally different, it just won't work. It can be avoided by following the hints for choosing the subtitles which are available on the search page. Also there is an interesting idea which I will consider in the future: it is possible to search on OpenSubtitles.org by fingerprint. Those who are watching something download from torrent, could search basically by the movie file itself, and they will get a list of subtitles which will match perfectly.