Thanks a bunch. Now I understand why it was disabled.
Yes, but that's because you organized the things on your side the way you did. After all, it *IS* possible to upload subs with a hash code.
Well, yes but it is only available to people using the subs on a general purpose computer which is not my use case.
I think now I understand how management wants opensubtitles.org to work and I don't want to change that. But without having to change the whole concept, maybe there's a way that it could also work for people using opensubtitles.org on a set top box or on a NAS like me.
Let's say that someone uploads a sub in English with a given hash. Immediately hundreds of users download that sub, they use it and after a couple of days they don't report anything wrong with it. The sub is deemed fine and is a good match with the video hash.
So now there's an entry in OSDb saying something like IMDB code A is linked with video hash B and with English sub C_en_us.1.
Now I come in using the web upload form and I upload a Portuguese sub for the same movie.
Into OSDB goes something like IMDB code A is linked with Portuguese sub C_pt_pt.1.
Now, you can't trust me because you know that people fail like hell but you trust the original English upload because no one reported it and it was accomplished using one of your certified upload tools.
So, couldn't you run a comparison between both subs, the C_en_us.1 and mine C_pt_pt.1 and check for similarities? I mean, if the timecodes match 100% then I'd say that my upload is good, right?
It wouldn't work for everybody in every case because subs can be made with different timecodes for the same movie/tvshow due to language restrictions but at least it would give us a chance...