Most of us are aware how geoblocks are one more reason people nudge towards piracy. Well, I didn’t knew that companies imposed geoblocks even on free content.
Most of us are aware how geoblocks are one more reason people nudge towards piracy. Well, I didn’t knew that companies imposed geoblocks even on free content.
Part of the reason I abandoned Amazon Prime is the complete lack of subtitles on half the content.
You can’t even download the subs from a third party source, because all these services insist you watch everything through their own locked down player.
But you know, there’s a service with all the content you want, subtitles for any language, up to 4K Blu-ray quality visuals and audio, and you never see a “leaving soon” sticker on anything you’re just getting into and still have 4 seasons left to watch. And it’s called Jellyfin.
Wait, jellyfin can download subtitles?
Well, the *arr stack can.
That bit is called Bazarr. You do occasionally have to dick about as well, as the subs might not be for that file, different cuts of the movie, different studio credits depending on where it was ripped from, etc.
Fortunately most movie and TV rips contain the subs in the mkv file.
Thanks, I was mostly wondering about Japanese series and especially anime, which sometimes seem impossible to get with Japanese subtitles outside of japan
It can, there’s an Open Subtitles plugin that can automatically download subtitles in specified languages that match (or don’t) the file hashes of your media. Being an open database of subtitles, though, YMMV. You configure it on a per-library basis.
Thanks, I’ll check it out!