OpenSubtitles.org Down?

**d_ced** · May 15th, 2009, 04:12 PM

Hi,

Opensubtitles seems to be back but not in boxee...

Any ideas ?

Ced

**malmeida** · May 15th, 2009, 04:29 PM

It seems that opensubtitles has been very inconstant in the last couple of weeks. Three out of four times it won't work at all in boxee.
Boxee's team should really consider an alternative - or perhaps changing its timeout before it gives the "connection failed" error in the application.

**d_ced** · May 16th, 2009, 01:40 AM

+1 for me.

It's one of reason why i'm using boxee. An easy integration to get the corresponding subtitles.

**robroi** · May 16th, 2009, 01:49 PM

same problem here since some days....

can boxee do anything about this???

**marcel** · May 17th, 2009, 06:21 AM

we are looking into this issue...i hope in the future opensubtitles .org will improve as they have a huge library..

**d_ced** · May 19th, 2009, 04:00 PM

Hi Marcel,

Tried again today and the issue is still there ('connection failed') while opensubtitles is back and working.

No way to get from Boxee Dev team a patch to correct the situation ?

WHat is wrong with the request made by Boxee ?

Thanks
Cedric

**marcel** · May 20th, 2009, 06:26 AM

currently no we will fix it soon..

**JPDeckers** · May 20th, 2009, 07:37 AM

Originally Posted by d_ced

Tried again today and the issue is still there ('connection failed') while opensubtitles is back and working.
No way to get from Boxee Dev team a patch to correct the situation ?
WHat is wrong with the request made by Boxee ?

OpenSubtitles has disabled the API:

"for couple of days we have to shut down XML-RPC. It is caused by overloaded servers (on 3 webservers we got now is load around 20), so neither website and XMLRPC (which uses EVERY program) was down. "
(from their forum)

this means you can still uset he website, but not the API. I don't think O.S. would like Boxee to "get around" this.

Seems O.S. is suffering from its own popularity (like they mention 1000 EUR/month on hosting costs), see their forums for more details.

**adamruss** · May 21st, 2009, 02:45 PM

this is what i get from the boxee log:

Code:

22:33:53 T:2688383856 M:380219392  NOTICE: INFO: Connecting to server http://www.opensubtitles.org/xml-rpc...
22:33:58 T:3054532480 M:380252160   DEBUG: ------------------- GUI_MSG_WINDOW_DEINIT
22:33:58 T:3054532480 M:380252160   DEBUG: 
22:33:58 T:3054532480 M:380252160   DEBUG: -------------------
22:33:58 T:2688383856 M:380203008  NOTICE: INFO: Logging in anonymously...
22:34:03 T:2688383856 M:380035072  NOTICE: ERROR: Login 401 Unauthorized