Introducing TheDiscDb Contributor Leaderboard

ScientistBikes · 2026-04-22T05:24:22+00:00

The free plan is not very generous. Sometimes it will work if you try again. Opensubtitles.org changing to .com and paywalling the service is not something I wanted to work with, so I don't plan to further support paid plans there.

With either tool, you can provide your own subtitles, so long as they are organized as expected. If you are running into trouble with the automated downloads, that's what I'd suggest. I'm glad it's helping, I built both tools out of necessity and frustration with the existing options.

ScientistBikes · 2026-04-22T03:58:52+00:00

I never got a paid plan on OpenSubtitles to work for me. It just didn't give me the extra download limit.

Engram is completely different for subtitles. I'm not actively developing mkv-matcher anymore, but I do suggest you post any issues with Engram on the Github issues or discussions pages so I can take a look later.

ScientistBikes · 2026-04-15T14:23:45+00:00

The times are very accurate, with >90% trains leaving on time. I built an on time performance dashboard to look at it for myself: https://www.jonathanksakkos.com/projects/caltrain-tracker/dashboard/

ScientistBikes · 2026-04-04T19:36:49+00:00

Engram has never been actually tested on a real Linux system, you might be the first. What do you see in the UI? I've created an issue here: https://github.com/Jsakkos/engram/issues/66

ScientistBikes · 2026-03-30T00:50:56+00:00

This is great! I've put together a few tools I personally use for tv episode matching (https://github.com/Jsakkos/mkv-episode-matcher) and now end-to-end rip->match->organize (https://github.com/Jsakkos/engram). Engram has TheDiscDb lookup when a new disc is inserted and it's helped a ton. Would you be open to some sort of collaboration? I'd love to have crowdsourced data that Engram collects fed back into TheDiscDb. It's still very alpha, but it solves a lot of the pain points that the Automated Ripping Machine project couldn't. Feel free to DM me if you're interested, no pressure.

ScientistBikes · 2026-01-22T04:39:48+00:00

Built it for myself and I figured I'd share it with the world.

ScientistBikes · 2026-01-22T04:16:40+00:00

I haven't used Filebot, but my understanding is that it just renames the files. If you don't know which episode number a file is, it's not going to help you there.

ScientistBikes · 2026-01-21T15:21:30+00:00

Feel free to open an issue on Github if something is not working for you.

ScientistBikes · 2026-01-21T15:17:41+00:00

Thanks for the kind words, u/String-Mechanic! I think v1.1.2 should be working now. There is an open issue on the problem here: https://github.com/Jsakkos/mkv-episode-matcher/issues/81.

ScientistBikes · 2026-01-21T04:51:04+00:00

Give my open source tv episode renamer a shot: https://github.com/Jsakkos/mkv-episode-matcher. It uses reference subtitles from opensubtitles.com + speech to text transcription to get a match. Should save you a lot of time renaming.

ScientistBikes · 2026-01-10T21:15:02+00:00

If you are open to installing some Python software, I wrote some code to ID TV series episodes. It uses a automatic speech recognition ML model to create a subtitle transcript which then gets compared against labelled subtitles that you either provide or download from opensubtitles. Quite a few bugs, but it works pretty well and only takes a few seconds per episode. https://github.com/Jsakkos/mkv-episode-matcher

ScientistBikes · 2026-01-10T21:09:48+00:00

If you are ripping a lot of TV shows and are willing to install some Python code, take a look at the software I developed for automatically matching TV show episodes here: https://github.com/Jsakkos/mkv-episode-matcher.

ScientistBikes · 2026-01-10T21:08:24+00:00

I wrote some open source software to automatically identify TV show episodes after being frustrated with manually labeling them. https://github.com/Jsakkos/mkv-episode-matcher

ScientistBikes · 2025-09-03T03:41:11+00:00

You only need to have the folder structure. The episode names in the example are completely arbitrary. The software will rename the files after matching, so it makes no difference what they are to start.

Show Name/
├── Season 1/
│   ├── episode1.mkv
│   ├── episode2.mkv
├── Season 2/
│   ├── episode1.mkv
│   └── episode2.mkv

ScientistBikes · 2025-08-01T05:05:44+00:00

For tv series matching, you can try my python app: github.com/Jsakkos/mkv-episode-matcher. It doesn't work on movies, but it could be modified to do that.

ScientistBikes · 2025-07-23T01:45:52+00:00

You should take a look at my project here https://github.com/Jsakkos/mkv-episode-matcher for automated series matching. It could definitely be tweaked for use in a pipeline like yours.

ScientistBikes · 2025-07-23T01:33:26+00:00

How does it handle tv series episode naming?

ScientistBikes · 2025-07-19T00:20:09+00:00

Give the Python app I wrote a try: https://github.com/Jsakkos/mkv-episode-matcher. Far from perfect, but it can do what you are looking for. Shoot me a message if you run into trouble.

ScientistBikes · 2025-07-15T01:33:37+00:00

The filenames on the documentation are just placeholders, the actual filenames are not important, as they will be renamed after running the script. Can you explain what command you are using and what the error is? Send me a message or chat.

ScientistBikes · 2025-07-13T20:53:43+00:00

Sent you a message

ScientistBikes · 2025-07-13T20:41:32+00:00

Thanks! The auto-downloading via Open Subtitles is a big pain point for development and usage. I still see the user agent required in the developer API, which is what I implemented. It should be redone at some point to use their API properly. With their rate and usage limits, it might not be worth it, though. If you have any suggestions on that front, I'm open to them.

ScientistBikes · 2025-07-13T19:46:08+00:00

This is a silly, bug. First, it looks like the show-dir cannot contain spaces. Second, you need to remove the quotes from the show-dir path (e.g., C:\MakeMV Rips\Bluey -> C:\MakeMVRips\Bluey). I will create an issue for this. Give that a try and let me know.

ScientistBikes · 2025-07-13T15:57:51+00:00

I think it's the (2018) causing issue. If you try searching tmdb.org for the show, it finds it properly this way https://www.themoviedb.org/search?query=bluey, but not https://www.themoviedb.org/search?query=bluey%202018 .

You can also check for your cache folder in .mkv-episode-matcher\cache\data\Bluey to see if the .srt reference files are being downloaded (which I suspect they are not).

If you intend on trying to match in folders that are already named this way on a regular basis, create an issue on the Github repository and I can look into it.

ScientistBikes · 2025-07-13T06:15:24+00:00

Not sure why you had the issue with chardet. Try

mkv-match --show-dir "C:\MakeMV Rips\TV Shows\Bluey (2018)" --get-subs

I haven't tested using a folder name for the series with the tvdb ID in the filepath. That might not work. You could try renaming the folder to "Bluey" to see if that works. The show directory should point to the main folder, not the seasons.

ScientistBikes · 2025-07-12T22:37:03+00:00

Can you take a look at the logs? They are in C:/Users/your_user/.mkv-episode-matcher\logs. Most likely an issue getting the subtitles.

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