Download Subtitle Files for Offline Viewing

[tdadvocate]

Describe your suggested feature

When downloading the video, it should also download the subtitles file and create a new hard sub format. This way users can watch offline completely while traveling. Especially since most sites don't seem to do hard subs due to them generally sucking for multi-language use.

Other details

No response

Acknowledgements

• My suggestion is NOT about adding a new provider
• I have searched the existing issues and this is a new ticket, NOT a duplicate or related to another open issue.

[tdadvocate]

I just wanted to add, it seems like the original source had a bad subtitle link. I still think it would be nice to allow users to automatically create a hardcoded subtitled version of the video so that they could use other video player apps. Especially since the user cannot just search their downloaded videos within the app. If a source no longer has the video file, there is no way to watch the downloaded content.

[CranberrySoup]

Are you aware if this is possible without a big and complex dependency such as ffmpeg?
Your suggestion is good, but if it takes a disproportionate amount of time to implement, use and maintain then it will likely not be added.

[Turhvjbufv]

Describe your suggested feature

When downloading the video, it should also download the subtitles file and create a new hard sub format. This way users can watch offline completely while traveling. Especially since most sites don't seem to do hard subs due to them generally sucking for multi-language use.

Other details

No response

Acknowledgements

• My suggestion is NOT about adding a new provider
• I have searched the existing issues and this is a new ticket, NOT a duplicate or related to another open issue.

Pretty sure it does it, it's just that you have to apply the subtitles automatically
At least that's my experience

[tdadvocate]

Are you aware if this is possible without a big and complex dependency such as ffmpeg?
Your suggestion is good, but if it takes a disproportionate amount of time to implement, use and maintain then it will likely not be added.

Haven't checked github in a while so I'm sorry for taking so long to reply. I unfortunately am not sure if it is even something that exists for any service or API. So I'm guessing it would probably have to be made from scratch which might be a serious pain. Although I truly have no idea as I haven't worked much with media related stuff on Android. But I can definitely understand why that might not be worth it. Worst case scenario is I just have to find a better video viewing application on all of my devices that have decent subtitle support. Thank you all for your hard work on this app!