FILEnetworks Blog: Sublight Launches Web Based Subtitle Search, v2.4 Of Desktop Client Released

In the past we have run several articles on Sublight, an automatic subtitle search, download and synchronization utility for Windows. I’ve been using this utility since it’s early versions and needless to say I absolutely love the app. If you download movies, TV shows and other video files over the internet (who doesn’t?) and if you watch them with subtitles, this is a must have tool. It makes finding and downloading subs pretty much a one click task which can be done right from your desktop. With Sublight installed, all you have to do is to right click your video file and hit ‘Find Subtitles’. Sublight connects to it’s sources (which are storage sites such as OpenSubtitles, divx-titlovi, podnapsi, etc), searches and lists matching subs for the selected file. You can download these instantly through the app itself or even start your default video player and start watching the video. Sublight recently launched it’s Silverlight based web based subtitle search and released v2.4 of the desktop client with several new features.

First thing you’ll notice in Sublight v2.4 is that it has the ribbon UI from office 2010. This interface provides context sensitive options that helps you perform a number of subtitle related functions such as search, download, synchronize, rate and even publish. In addition to these basic functions, Sublight provides some unique features including subtitle preview, IMDB integration, ability to view subtitle NFO, integrated list of latest subtitle uploads to online repositories, etc. The full list of features (quoted from Sublight homepage) can be found below:

access to over million subtitles
autodetects over 100,000 movies and tv series
Office 2010 look and feel with Ribbon user interface
Sublight is currently translated to 14 languages
supports 46 subtitle languages
plugin support for accessing subtitles from different sources
user can choose default subtitle encoding (ANSI, custom code page, UTF-8, Unicode)
movie playback with subtitle support with double click
possible to play RAR compressed video files
possible to publish new subtitles
simple subtitle editor
subtitle synchronization
users can preview subtitle before download
possible to view new/favorite subtitles
includes "My Movies" library
supports 7 favorite video players
possible to integrate subtitle search in Windows Explorer
users can vote/report subtitles
includes cross-platform tool SublightCmd for batch subtitle download (advanced users)

In addition to the desktop client, Sublight now has a fully functional online subtitle search function. If you don’t like installing the app on your computer (or if your operating system does not support it), you can use the Silverlight powered online interface to easily search and download subs.