interesting, that actually sounds like an awesome idea for the OTA tv rips, cuz I doubt I would even be able to find anything that matches by duration on normal sub sites.

I hadn't heard of whisper gui / whisperx before but I see it has a github. do you know if that is cloud-based or something you can run entirely local? (wondering if it is cloud-based in case i need to allow it net access & also curious if it would eat a lot of bandwidth for roughly 2 seasons of broadcast tv shows aka somewhere around 30-35 hrs worth of audio)

edit: apparently whisper can be run entirely offline according to this so if whisperx is a fork, then i assume it would allow this too

thanks for the suggestion. i was completely unaware of the whisper project and even if it doesnt help much for movies, that might come in real handy for some of the OTA rips I have from my friends (was pretty sure I was SOL for those but this seems like a dcent option).

sounds like it can even be run entirely offline so even better

what do you use instead? i usually start on subscene and on the rare time it doesn't have it or down, then i go and hit all the others i know until i find it or come up empty handed.

I use ublock in the browser and never click on links when watching videos (does vlc even support that out of the box? never tried)

yeah, i mostly use subscene now. Looks like I was able to pip install subliminal so will check that out.. guess i need to make some accounts/api keys first.

do you still get issues with mismatched / out-of-sync subs here and there?

was hoping to keep it more light-weight and not bring in a media server but i guess if i'm having this much of a pain doing things the old fashioned way, it's still an idea to try so thanks.

as far as meta data, any clue what it looks for?

asking cuz my collection is a hodgepodge of a bunch of different sources. Most of the stuff that is missing subs are a mix of tv shows and movies that came from either:

• makemkv rips and OTA recordings from a few buddies
• older tv releases that came from public tracker sites
• ??? no fucking clue, maybe i ddl'ed it years ago? not sure

I was just poking around with mediainfo on a few movies I am looking for subs for currently and I see some of the ones that were downloaded appear to still have the original file in the Movie name field (including the release group). OTA rips, I kinda feel like I'm probably fucked on bc they aren't even gonna match a standard duration but will check it out

thanks for this, that's some good info 😀