Massive Upload of subtitles

[Kapis]

From feedback from here: http://forum.opensubtitles.org/viewtopic.php?t=386

brano said:
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every second user is asking for mass uploading (not really:), important thing is, we think mass uploading is good feature. Ok, there was some ideas how to do, but I think this should be the way, and I like to know your opinion:

1. User will click in main menu to "Mass Upload"
2. program will ask for directory where movies with subtitles are stored
3. program will scan (recursive) directory, and will make pairs of movies (cd1+cd2) with their subtitles.
4. now "wizard" will start - it will be exactly same window as upload, but there will be option to "skip this upload". So user have to check everything, click on confirm (adding next cd if needed, changing subtitle file)...and so on, as normal upload. After end of action (subtitles are on server/upload successful) will go next "pair" until finish

What do you think about this ?

Patejl said:
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Hi, this is actually very similar proposal to the one I sent to Ivan (probably, there aren't too many way how to carry it out). I only proposed one more step after directory scan. The list of found films would by displayed to user can unselect films or make corrections in grouping (pairing - cd1/cd2). Also I pointed out it would be useful if there is possibility to add more languages for one film.

eduo said:
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Good thing to consider: Stop assuming that 1.-Movies commonly come in two parts and 2.-That two files with consecutive numbers will always be two CDs in a movie. I can't count how many times I've had the program almost believe it was uploading subtitles for two parts of a movie instead of two expisodes for a series.

For mass uploading this becomes more serious, as you may end up with 14 episodes of a series, that the program may believe are 7 movies.

So, a checkbox before "mass" uploading would be nice, the checkbox (or radio button, or popup menu, I don't care) could ask if the directory contains movies or tv series, if it contains movies it can ask if movies are split in two files or in a single file (or mixed contents). If it's a series it can ask if it's a single series or not and a single season or not (we should expect some level of organisation from users at some point in time).

These questions would make subtitle uploading much more practical.

[Marco Ferreira (mferreira)]

How about this:

Keepthe current tab layout in GUI, but instead of having that list plus the properties in the bottom, put a long vertical list with, let's say..., 3 columns. This way the user would have defined movie/subtitle/properties in each of the lines.

I think that would work for seperated movies, series episodes and splited CDs movies.

[Beni Cherniavsky (cben)]

Another big annoyance about upload of series is IMDB episode IDs.
The OSDB currently contains a mix of two kinds of IDs:
- subs associated with the series ID, encoding episode free-form in "release".
- subs associated with specific episode ID.
The latter is clearly better for a healthy DB and should be encouraged.

But as far as I see, the upload GUI insists on using movies/series IDs, not episode IDs:
- The "find in IMDB" button appears to return only series IDs,
  although a search in the OS web site also shows episodes.
- Autodetection of ID from video hash appears to prefer series ID,
  even when the same hash is also associated with a series.
  This is probably accidental because the series usually has a higher seen count.

I'll try to fix ObtainUploadInfo() by using CheckMovieHash2() instead of trusting the single ID returned from TryUploadSubtitles() / getBestImdbInfo().
And possibly I can kludge SearchMoviesOnIMDB() by (ab)using SearchSubtitles.

Ultimately this should be fixed on OSDB side (filed at http://trac.opensubtitles.org/projects/opensubtitles/ticket/3#comment:1).

[Marco Rodrigues (gothicx)]

Beni, how it's going ?

[Beni Cherniavsky (cben)]

Ahh, sorry, got busy and forgot about it :-(
I'm afraid I won't be able to work on it any time soon.