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When this option is on, whenever you open VLSub it'll first try to find a sub by hash if not found then by name then download and load it basically a one button feature.

I think this is a pretty good feature, but the implementation could probably be a bit better. I looked into closing the GUI on a timer when the option is enabled, but that does not seem possible. Having this feature be a separate option in the view menu could also be another approach, but I'm not sure that's possible either from a single extension ( I think that is however possible for interfaces in VLC ).

Please let me know what you think!

TomVarga added 2 commits June 23, 2015 16:44
	when this option is on, whenever you open VLSub it'll
	first try to find a sub by hash
	if not found then by name
		then download and load it
	basically a one button feature
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  1. I don't think "I'm feeling lucky type behavior" sounds right. Maybe "I'm feeling lucky mode" or something like that.

  2. What does this do if it finds more than one subtitle by hash (or by name)? How does it choose among the options? By number of downloads? By subtitle rating? By uploader account type? I feel any of these would be better than for example picking the first one, or picking randomly.

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Right, "I'm feeling lucky mode" probably describes this better.

Currently it picks the first from the list. From my experience that has not been that bad to begin with, but I see what you mean by picking the "lucky" subtitle from the available list.

@TomVarga TomVarga changed the title Add "I'm feeling lucky" type behavior Add "I'm feeling lucky" mode Jun 29, 2015
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I'd suggest using a weighted sum of rating, downloads, uploader type (admin, trusted, whatever), with decreasing weights from the former to the latter. Does that make sense?

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Yeah that does make sense, however now that I've actually looked into the OpenSubtitles API it seems like the returned subtitle array is already sorted by seencount descending, so the first is already the most popular one. I'm not convinced that trying to work out a weighting system would be that much better.

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I suspected they already did some internal sorting. In that case, I agree, let's not reinvent the wheel and go with the first one. This would be a great functionality, 👍 :)

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sherazfn commented Nov 3, 2015

Hi,

This sounds great. How do I access this feature? I think I have VLSUB 0.9.13

Thank you.

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