Subber

Subber is a small app that can help you with most of the subtitle-related problems.

With this app you can:

  • Find subtitles from your preferred languages (using OpenSubtitles.org, Podnapisi.NET and SubScene.com) .
  • Download the (auto-selected) best, or all of them.
  • Automatically rename them with the name of your video, so that the media players can recognize them.
  • Save them using the preferred encoding (UTF-8/ANSI)
  • Convert between encodings (UTF-8/ANSI)
  • Upload your subtitles to OpenSubtitles.org
  • Clean up the filenames of the episodes from any tv series using the TheTVDB.com
  • Easy to use drag & drop interface with Dark or Light skin.

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ScreenShots:


Subtitles service by www.OpenSubtitles.org

Podnapisi.NET

SubScene.com

and... GreekSubtitles

Series info by www.thetvdb.com/


Version History:

  • 1.17.1.0
    Fixed:
    • No uploading subtitles without editing.
  • 1.17.0.0
    Added:
    • We can now "Edit Subtitle Info" before uploading (right-click on a checked subtitle). Supported fields are: "FPS", "Release name", "Comment", "Translator", "Hearing impaired" and "HD movie".
    Fixed:
    • "Get all found subtitles" is an option of the main "Download" button and it shouldn't influence the "Download selected" actions.
  • 1.16.4.0
    Added:
    • [Uploading subs] Right click on one/multiple subtitles to set the (same) IMDB ID, by searching or manually typing.
    • [Uploading subs] The IMDB ID search has been significant improved (when manually searching for the subtitles that are not automatically recognized).
    Fixed:
    • Better parsing of passing arguments.
  • 1.16.2.0
    Changed:
    • Mostly a maintenance release.
    • Some cosmetic changes.
    Fixed:
    • A little improved IMDB ID searching when uploading subtitles.
  • 1.16.0.0
    Added:
    • Option to download all the found subtitles (for every video) and not only the best/checked ones.
    • A dialog with the failed links will open at the end of the process, if some subtitles could not get downloaded.
    Changed:
    • The default theme for the App is now the dark one.
    • The default log level for the App is now "All Messages"
      (more detailed info to send me, if a crash occurs).
    • Some cosmetic changes.
    Fixed:
    • No dark theme for the Series Selector dialog.
  • 1.15.1.0
    Fixed:
    • That was quick.. ;o) SubScene is back and working. It IS slow, but it can be handy when nothing else is found.
  • 1.15.0.0
    Added:
    • Option to "Auto search" subtitles when drag&dropping videos.
    • Dialog to inform user for "Too Many Requests" from OpenSubtitles (API RATE LIMIT of 40 requests per 10 second per IP Address).
    Changed:
    • SubScene changed its site, so Subber can't use it anymore.
  • 1.14.4.0
    Fixed:
    • The SubScene provider works again (bypassed the CloudFlare block).
  • 1.14.3.0
    Changed:
    • More gracefully handling of a Captcha error with CloudFlare.
  • 1.14.2.0
    Fixed:
    • Less errors from SubScene's CloudFlare blocks.
    Changed:
    • Speedup of SubScene's CloudFlare block bypass. There are still bugs, but we getting there ;o)
  • 1.14.0.0
    Fixed:
    • SubScene stopped working because is protected with CloudFlare. We can now bypass it, but it takes a couple of minutes, so have patience while searching. The downloading of the found subs, OTOH is faster.
    Changed:
    • Renamed videos are now refreshed on the main page.
  • 1.13.2.0
    Fixed:
    • Debugging emails were blocked from the mail server.
    • Some series names were not recognized.
    • Minor nitpicks.
  • 1.13.0.0
    Changed:
    • The log view has a word wrap option now.
    • Some cosmetic changes.
    Fixed:
    • There was an error when searching for episode names with files that had no series name.
  • 1.12.16.3
    Fixed:
    • There was an error from SubScene when searching for a video file with a unicode name.
    • Sometimes a provider returned a subtitle file instead of an archive with the subtitle inside as usual.
    • Sometimes OpenSubtitles returned a .sub gziped file instead of .srt gziped as usual.
  • 1.12.13.0
    Fixed:
    • Improved the downloading of subtitles from Podnapisi.
  • 1.12.12.0
    Changed:
    • Re-added (with a warning) the http://www.greeksubtitles.info search because the site is not closed, just banned from the ISPs in Greece (only). You can bypass the ban, by using any alternative DNS like Google's 8.8.8.8 - 8.8.4.4 or others, that are faster from your ISP's DNS servers anyway. Using a VPN service might not be a bad idea too.
  • 1.12.11.0
    Changed:
    • Removed the http://www.greeksubtitles.info search because the site is closed.
  • 1.12.10.0
    Changed:
    • The default character encoding is set to UTF-8 with the BOM byte.
    Fixed:
    • Debugging emails should not be blocked now.
    • Better handling of some SubScene errors.
    • Some logging bugs.
  • 1.12.8.0
    Added:
    • Support for the ".m4v" extension.
    Changed:
    • Improved character encoding detection for non-english subtitles.
    • The default character encoding is set to UTF-8 with the BOM byte.
    Fixed:
    • Wrong subtitle count when downloading for multiple videos.
    • Massively speed-up for GreekSubtitles searches.
    • Some logging bugs.
  • 1.11.15.0
    Fixed:
    • A change in the API prevent OpenSubtitles engine from working.
    • When no IMDB Id is found when uploading a subtitle, the app could hang.
  • 1.11.10.0
    Changed:
    • The Preferences dialog was re-arranged.
    • New logging system with selectable levels of information.
    Fixed:
    • Canceling download did not stop from getting the subtitles that had already started to download.
    • Disabling and after that, re-enabling OpenSubtitles did not log in automatically.
  • 1.11.7.0
    Added:
    • Downloading of ".sub" files too (but without the removal of Hearing Impaired captions).
    • Showing the selected languages (Preferences).
    • Sorting subtitles by column.
    Fixed:
    • SubScene could return the same link with different filenames. Now only unique links are fetched.
    • Uploading subtitles was broken.
    • Downloading from GreekSubtitles.info was broken.
  • 1.11.1.0
    Added:
    • Proper support for SubScene.com search (re-write of the code).
    • Option for the minimum subtitle score. Lower than that, discards the result. The default (25) ensures that at least the title is matched.
    • Rar archives are also accepted as results now.
    • Sorting subtitles by column.
    Changed:
    • There are three states for the Hearing Impaired status. Yes, No and blank (unknown state).
    Fixed:
    • Clearing found subtitles for a video didn't clear its icon.
    • Some languages had problem with Podnapisi.NET.
    • Various small bug fixes and cosmetic changes.
  • 1.10.2.3
    Added:
    • The search engines can now be enabled/disabled from the main window.
    • Support for GreekSubtitles.info search. It's only visible if Greek are selected as one of the subtitles languages (slow but with many hits).
    Changed:
    • More info at the download subtitles progress dialog.
    Fixed:
    • Problems while renaming series.
    • Minor bug fixes.
  • 1.9.4.0
    Added:
    • Option to retrieve the Version History from the app's page before browsing there for an update.
    Fixed:
    • Some subtitles could not be saved at all.
    • Selecting to not get notified for a specific update could corrupt the settings.
  • 1.9.0.0
    Added:
    • Option to send an error log to the developer either automatically after a crash or manually (About > Log > Send log).
    • Option to disable searching in OpenSubtitles.org (when the site is down) but still search with Podnapisi.NET.
  • 1.8.2.0
    Changed:
    • Optimized language detection when uploading subtitles.
  • 1.8.1.0
    Fixed:
    • Maintenance release.
  • 1.8.0.0
    Fixed:
    • Broken SubScene.com search.
  • 1.7.6.0
    Added:
    • Option to restrict the Podnapisi.NET hits per video.
    Fixed:
    • In some rare cases, a video (usually an episode with a strange name) could get too many (thousands) subs from Podnapisi.NET and block the overall progress.
    • Wrong language ID for French in Podnapisi.NET.
  • 1.7.5.5
    Added:
    • Column with providers in the "Select subtitles" window.
    • Re-added the "Original name" option at the "Subtitle name:" in Preferences. We still can't see the original name in a Podnapisi sub, but we get it when we download it.
    Changed:
    • Re-wrote from scratch the SubScene.com search code to make it much faster.
    Fixed:
    • If we manually renamed an episode from a series (with double-click), that episode was moved to the app's directory.
    • Starting to download subtitles even if none selected.
    • Could not check for newer version.
    • Some cosmetic bugs.
  • 1.7.0.0
    Added:
    • Option to manually search SubScene.com for subtitles (right-click and select the "Search@SubScene" command or double-click a video entry and then press the "Search@SubScene" button).
    Fixed:
    • Uploaded urls where saved in the wrong text file.
    • Some minor bugs.
  • 1.6.0.0
    Added:
    • Option to also search Podanapisi.NET for subtitles.
  • 1.5.3.0
    Fixed:
    • In some systems it could not initialize the search for subs.
  • 1.5.2.1
    Added:
    • Option to add the uploaded subtitles' links to a list.
    • Can open ".sub" subtitles and convert their encoding, but can not upload them or clear the "Hearing impaired" comment from them.
    Changed:
    • When the "Rename Episodes" window is opened, it automatically includes all the video files that are already open in the main window.
  • 1.5.1.0
    Changed:
    • Removed Podnapisi.NET support for now, because it does not work when packaged in an executable.
    Fixed:
    • App could not start in some systems.
  • 1.5.0.1
    Added:
    • Option to also search Podanapisi.NET for subtitles.
    • Right clicking a video file now has the option to open the file's location.
    Changed:
    • Removed the "Exists" column when uploading subtitles because the API always returned "NO".
    • Removed the "Original name" option from the "Subtitle name:" in Preferences because Podanapisi API does not provide one.
    Fixed:
    • When no subtitles for a video, no "Download selected" in its right click.
    • Wrong address when auto-update.
  • 1.4.5.0
    Added:
    • Option to change the language and the IMDB ID of the uploading subtitle (after the initial checking) if it's not correct.
  • 1.4.4.0
    Fixed:
    • Some unicode encoding errors.
    • Error printing loop.
  • 1.4.3.0
    Added:
    • Recognize IMDB Id if an imdb link is pasted (when manually adding the ID for a TV series).
    • Accepts drops directly on the "Rename Episodes" button.
    Fixed:
    • Windows XP SP3 compatibility.
    • Small bug fixes.
  • 1.4.2.0
    Initial release.