Undertext is swedish for subtitle. It is a new application for easy and quick downloading of subtitles for movies and tv episodes using OpenSubtitles.org's database. Undertext is made for Mac OS X using it's Cocoa so it integrates very well with the system, something I personally think is valuable as I hope more people than myself want good looking software which is easy and intuitive to use. To some extent it's goals is the same as e.g. SubDownloader. This application originated while SubDownloader still was hard to get working on a Mac. I thought it would be a really fun project (and it is!). One of it's goals is too keep a small and simple feature set so because of that I have so far added features mostly geared at my own needs. But please, come with requests and I will tell you what I think.
Website: http://code.google.com/p/undertext. There you can find downloads, suggest new features, submit bugs, get the source code and get more information. I'll be posting some sort of roadmap with features in the nearest time and you'll be able too keep track of the development.
The searching is done by calculating a hash for every movie file and then looking in OpenSubtitles.org's database for matching subtitles. This way you find matching subtitles quickly and can be sure they'll be correctly sync'ed with the video.
Some of the features in v 1.0:
Version 1.0 for download at the website is an early release and I plan to keep adding features.
- Looks recursively for movie files when opened with one or several folders.
- Can filter results by language.
- When downloading subtitles it names the subtitle after the movie file, so you don't have to change the name yourself.
- Search results are shown in a table easy to choose subtitles from.
- Extra info is shown in a separate window for the currently selected subtitle.
- Sparkle is used for automatic updates so you'll know when a new version is available.