Subtitles, first nl then en, and rename after

[pven]

First of all: I am quite new to filebot, and I already love it a lot!

What I want to do, but what is quite hard for me. When I have a movie.mkv I want to download subs. Currently it download subs to ie movie.nld.srt, after that I need to rename it otherwise my Popcorn Box won't recognize the subs.

I created a simple script, but it is not completely what I want:

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#!/bin/sh
filebot -script fn:suball --lang nl --log-file filebot.log /volume1/Movies
filebot -script fn:suball --lang en --log-file filebot.log /volume1/Movies
filebot -script fn:replace --action copy --conflict override --def "e=.eng.srt" "r=.srt" --log-file filebot.log .
filebot -script fn:replace --action copy --conflict override --def "e=.nld.srt" "r=.srt" --log-file filebot.log .

What sucks:
(- when there is already a srt-file it won't be overwritten) fixed by adding 'copy' and 'override', I think
- when a dutch srt-file is already there, overwriting is useless
- when I am right: when movie.srt is already there, it won't look for other subs

Can you please advice me how to improve this script? Or maybe combine some commands (right now it takes 1 minute per movie)? Everything is welcome.

[rednoah]

1.
filebot -script fn:suball won't allow you to fetch subtitles for files that already have subtitles in the given language. If there's subtitle files without language tag, those will count for any
language.

2.
You're renaming your *.eng.srt and *.nld.srt to the same filename. So the Dutch subtitles are always gonna override the English ones when you do your second filebot -script fn:replace call.

[pven]

Thanks for the answer!

Just for my view. Imagine I have the following files on my system:
- movie.mkv
- movie.en.srt
- movie.srt
Will filebot download dutch subs when available, or will it skip it because movie.srt exists?

Update: ah, 'any language'. Can I override this option?

Indeed: nl is leading, en is secondary. First I copy movie.en.srt to movie.srt, so I have english subs. But dutch is preferred, so if dutch subs are available, this should be copied from movie.nl.srt to movie.srt that will overwrite english subs if they were already there.

Maybe all of this can be done easier, that's why I opened this topic.

[rednoah]

Well, it's not impossible, but getting around filebot anti-abuse rules certainly won't make it any easier.

The real issue certainly lies with your HTPC software, so ask them to fix the problem, or use Kodi/Plex instead.

[pven]

Thanks again!

My Popbox won't be fixed anymore, it is not supported anympore ...

Using a htpc or kodi/plex orso is no option (yet). I'll think of a solution, for the time being it is ok to perform extra manual actions.