I’m not a fan of the turns Open Subtitles has made toward monetisation, ad injection etc. — particularly not considering the unpaid volunteer work that has gone into their offerings. The straw that broke the camel’s back for me was their “AI” subtitles, though.

I don’t know if they sincerely think what they’re doing is related to AI, the results I’ve had the misfortune of downloading was subpar speech-to-text gibberish. And from what I can tell they’re even charging for generating those.

So, as I ask in the title, what alternatives to Open Subtitles are currently available for Kodi? I’ve used Subscene in the past but the add-on stopped working — or maybe I just need to look into the settings again?

  • RedMEnglish
    3•6 months ago

    You could use what bazarr uses: https://github.com/morpheus65535/bazarr (or use bazarr to enrich the media before playing)

    Whether these have Kodi addons i’m not sure, but I’m sure there might be other alternatives.

    Supported subtitles providers:

    Addic7ed
    Argenteam
    Assrt
    BetaSeries
    BSplayer
    Embedded Subtitles
    Gestdown.info
    GreekSubtitles
    HDBits.org
    Hosszupuska
    LegendasDivx
    Karagarga.in
    Ktuvit (Get hashed_password using method described here)
    Napiprojekt
    Napisy24
    Nekur
    OpenSubtitles.org
    Podnapisi
    RegieLive
    Sous-Titres.eu
    Subdivx
    subf2m.co
    Subs.sab.bz
    Subs4Free
    Subs4Series
    Subscene
    Subscenter
    Subsunacs.net
    SubSynchro
    Subtitrari-noi.ro
    subtitri.id.lv
    Subtitulamos.tv
    Sucha
    Supersubtitles
    Titlovi
    Titrari.ro
    Titulky.com
    TuSubtitulo
    TVSubtitles
    Whisper (requires ahmetoner/whisper-asr-webservice)
    Wizdom
    XSubs
    Yavka.net
    YIFY Subtitles
    Zimuku

    On the side note of ML nonsense. If you have a graphics card with at least 4GB of vRAM using Whisper to auto generate with the latest Large model will produce pretty amazing results. Even when people mumble or have thick accents.

    • @halmOPEnglish
      2•6 months ago

      Ah yes, bazarr could be a workaround. Another incitement to get my *arr box set up again!

  • @[email protected]English
    1•5 months ago

    Have you set up anything else since posting this? Also curious about it. I haven’t come across any generated subtitles (I think), but had some problems after updating Kodi and the add-on no longer working.