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Subtitles from OpenSubtitles

When a movie or programme has no subtitles in the stream, the app can search them on OpenSubtitles.com and show them over the video. You need premium and your own OpenSubtitles account (free registration on their site).

Setup

  1. Register on OpenSubtitles.com.
  2. In the app open Settings > Extended settings > External services integration > OpenSubtitles and enter your Login and Password. This screen is hidden in Simplified mode (Settings > Extended settings > User experience level).

Finding subtitles

The app searches by the title of the movie or programme, and by its year, season and episode, when known. Pick a result from the list; each shows its release name and the number of downloads. If nothing fits, choose Search at the bottom and type another title; when nothing is found at all, the app asks for a title right away.

In the media library player, Off under Subtitles in Audio and subtitles turns the found subtitles off.

Languages

The results are sorted by your preferred languages: first those in Settings > Player > Media tracks > Track language (Subtitles), then in Track language (Audio), then the language of the device. Without any, English is used.

Limits

Subtitles are found by the title (or the IMDb / TMDB id of the movie, when the app knows it), not by the video itself. Their timing may not match a different cut of the movie or a broadcast with ad breaks: try another result.