It can actually send to Google the information on what you are playing: https://github.com/videolan/vlc/blob/f908ef4981c93a8b76805ade15246981002affc9/share/lua

It can actually send to Google the information on what you are playing: https://github.com/videolan/vlc/blob/f908ef4981c93a8b76805ade15246981002affc9/share/lua/meta/art/01_googleimage.lua https://github.com/videolan/vlc/blob/f908ef4981c93a8b76805ad... and to their own servers: https://github.com/videolan/vlc/blob/f908ef4981c93a8b76805ade15246981002affc9/share/lua/meta/art/00_musicbrainz.lua https://github.com/videolan/vlc/blob/f908ef4981c93a8b76805ad... should could fetch subtitles as the same time ? edit: cf, what "a3w" says too.