gHacks Technology News | Latest Tech News, Software And Tutorials » sub downloader http://www.ghacks.net A technology news blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:51:26 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Subtitles Download Subs Grabberhttp://www.ghacks.net/2009/01/23/subtitles-download-subs-grabber/ http://www.ghacks.net/2009/01/23/subtitles-download-subs-grabber/#comments Fri, 23 Jan 2009 21:11:46 +0000 Martin Brinkmann http://www.ghacks.net/?p=10097 With the Internet came the rise of large non-commercial subtitle communities that produce subtitles for movies, television shows and other multimedia files. It usually does not take longer than a day or two before the first subtitles are provided on the Internet.

Subs Grabber is a tool that can be used to download subtitles. The tool provides an easy to use interface to search for subtitles. The user has to enter a search term, pick a language and hit the GO button to perform a search.

All three subtitle databases will be searched and displayed in the interface. The top pane contains the titles of the movies while the lower pane will list the available subtitles for the different versions of the selected movie.

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Subs Grabber integrates itself into the right-click Windows Explorer menu so that it can be used to right-click a movie and perform a search for it in the software.

The vast databases of the three services ensure that lots of subtitles can be found using the subtitles downloader.

]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2009/01/23/subtitles-download-subs-grabber/feed/ 3 Subtitle Downloaderhttp://www.ghacks.net/2008/04/03/subtitle-downloader/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/04/03/subtitle-downloader/#comments Thu, 03 Apr 2008 14:36:02 +0000 Martin Brinkmann http://www.ghacks.net/?p=3703 Subtitles are essential when you want to watch a movie that has been released in a language that you do not speak well / at all. They are also great if you want to learn a language because you get to hear the original voices of the actors and can still glimpse at the translation whenever something is said that you did not understand. Subtitles are either a common appearance in your country or frowned upon. Most movies in Denmark for instance are subtitled whereas all movies that come into German cinemas are completely spoken in German.

The major disadvantage of subtitles so far has been accessibility in my opinion, at least when you take a look at watching movies on your computer. You have to know the websites and forums that provide users with subtitles and it’s more of a burden than fun to do that.

Sub Downloader [via Genbeta] could change that. This software scans various subtitle databases returning a list of subtitles for the selected movies. By default subtitles in all languages are returned which can be changed in the program’s options. If you only wanted to find and download English and French subtitles you could edit the settings accordingly.

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The subtitles are automatically downloaded into the right directory. What I really like is the fact that you can dump the contents of a folder into Sub Downloader to search for subtitles for all videos at once. The tool can add two options to the right-click menu that search for subtitles when you click on that option. Again both single videos and complete folders can be submitted.

Sub Downloader is available for Windows, Linux and Mac OS.

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