"Search By Name" only display 1st page of results

[spock]

Often "Search By Name" delivers a nil report or reports a small subset of subs revealed by direct search on the web site.

[Kapis (capiscuas)]

Please give us some example of search with that happening and also the same link with more results on the web site.

Thanks

[Marco Ferreira (mferreira)]

Will assume as 'fixed' if no further replies are received

[spock (amspock)]

http://www.opensubtitles.org/en/search/sublanguageid-eng/idmovie-3749

for the movie Flashdance the website shows 7 results reference above..
sd shows 5.

2008/9/26 Marco Ferreira <email address hidden>:
> Will assume as 'fixed' if no further replies are received
>
> ** Changed in: subdownloader
> Status: New => Incomplete
>
> --
> "Search By Name" does not always work
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/271306
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>
> Status in SubDownloader. Find Subtitles for your Videos: Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
> Often "Search By Name" delivers a nil report or reports a small subset of subs revealed by direct search on the web site.
>

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[Kapis (capiscuas)]

The reason of that is the no-pagination treatment from SD yet.

For the example of Flashdance, we can see that the site returns 2 pages, but SD only display the subtitles of the 1st page.

See here:
http://www.opensubtitles.org/en/search/imdbid-85549/sublanguageid-all/xml
The part where it says:
<index>
<div id="pager"><div class="pager-list"><strong>1</strong><a href='/en/search/imdbid-85549/sublanguageid-all/xml/offset-40'>2</a><a href='/en/search/imdbid-85549/sublanguageid-all/xml/offset-40'>&gt;&gt;</a></div></div>
</index>

My idea is to show in the dialog something like "Retrieving page X of XX", this dialog not modal, so the user can start using the results of the already loaded pages.

Any suggerences marco?

[spock (amspock)]

probably the best solution, apart from being the simplest, would be to let the "search by name" happen in the default browser by opening it from within subdownloader when the search button is pressed from the "search by name" tab. if that is done there will also be no need to keep track of changes made on the opensubtitles.org website search and display process and the need to keep subdowloader aligned to all such changes.

[Kapis (capiscuas)]

Hi spock, we want to control the searches inside SD so that way the user can download many subtitles at the same time, can play the subtitles with a movie(on his HD) and can filter by language, in the future we want to put many more sites so the results can be mixed.

[spock (amspock)]

o.k.

2008/10/15 Ivan Garcia <email address hidden>:
> Hi spock, we want to control the searches inside SD so that way the user
> can download many subtitles at the same time, can play the subtitles
> with a movie(on his HD) and can filter by language, in the future we
> want to put many more sites so the results can be mixed.
>
> --
> "Search By Name" only display 1st page of results
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/271306
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>
> Status in SubDownloader. Find Subtitles for your Videos: Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> Often "Search By Name" delivers a nil report or reports a small subset of subs revealed by direct search on the web site.
>

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http://spockspeak.blogspot.com/

[spock (amspock)]

if you are really serious about it you have to check out the following:

http://www.subtitleseeker.com

this is fantastic stuff. you have to make your "search by name" at
least as good for searching across sites. or tie up with them and work
together to improve it. there is no point spending energy on something
already being well done by someone else.

at the moment the "search by name" only manages to frustrate users!

2008/10/15 Ivan Garcia <email address hidden>:
> Hi spock, we want to control the searches inside SD so that way the user
> can download many subtitles at the same time, can play the subtitles
> with a movie(on his HD) and can filter by language, in the future we
> want to put many more sites so the results can be mixed.
>
> --
> "Search By Name" only display 1st page of results
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/271306
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>
> Status in SubDownloader. Find Subtitles for your Videos: Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> Often "Search By Name" delivers a nil report or reports a small subset of subs revealed by direct search on the web site.
>

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http://spockspeak.blogspot.com/