SubDude – Auto Rename Subtitles To Match Movie, TV Show Video File Name

A couple of days ago we featured on this blog theRenamer, a great software the could rename downloaded movie and TV show video files by automatically inserting episode names, titles, etc to the file name. While the software did an excellent job on renaming video files, it did not rename any associated subtitle files. As you might know, most computer applications, built in media players on DVD, Blu-Ray players & modern TVs require subtitle file names to match those of video file names for subtitles streams to display properly. When file names are mismatched, you will be left with the painstaking task of renaming each file manually, which can take quite some time if you are dealing with something like a TV show with multiple seasons. SubDude is a useful little utility that can automate this rename process and save you a lot of time.

To clear any confusion, SubDude does not only work with video files renamed using theRenamer. You can use it to automatically rename even downloaded subtitles. Following table shows how SubDude will rename the subtitle file of a single TV episode:

	Before SubDude	After SubDude
Video Filename	The.Sopranos.s03e01.avi	The.Sopranos.s03e01.avi
Subtitle Filename	The-Sopranos3x1.srt	The.Sopranos.s03e01.srt

How this software works is pretty simple. It matches the season and episode numbers in video and subtitle files using regular expressions (RegEx) and renames the matches accordingly. Below are some instructions on how to use the app, in case you didn’t figure it out already":

1. Move all your subtitle files and video files inside a single directory (see notes below for additional details).
2. Launch SubDude. In the ‘Rename’ tab, browse and point to the directory with files you created in Step 1.
3. If you want to later undo the rename actions, check ‘Create and unDude file’ checkbox.
4. Press Go.

Important Notes (Quoted from developer page):

• SubDude assumes that every files in the folder are from the same show and checks season and episode numbers only.
• Subdude uses regular expressions to detect season and episode numbers. Most common patterns (TVShow-s04e01, TVShow-4x1 etc) are handled, however Subdude will eventually fail to detect season and episode numbers on certain files (TVShow401 etc). This problem is being worked on.

Download

[Click Here] to download the latest version of SubDude (Direct Download)

[Click Here] to visit developer homepage

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PeerAccess – Now With BitTorrent Invites, Discussions & More Movie Release Dates

Readers familiar with our movie release date updates would need no further introduction as to what PeerAccess (PA) is. It’s one of the most up to date sources on the internet for latest home movie release dates on R1, R2, R5 DVD and Blu Ray disks. While this fact about the forum seems to be quite well known, most people don’t appear to be aware that PA is also a file sharing forum with BitTorrent news, tracker discussions, open signup updates, seedbox reviews and of course, invite giveaways and requests. It is also the official home of TOXiC, a P2P release group specializing in movies. PA recently went through an ownership change and has been closed for registration for over 4 months. However the site has re-opened its doors to the public with a new look, new content and as usual, more updated DVD/Bluray release dates.

Although its only about a year and a half old, PeerAccess has gone through quite a few changes during this time, some of them involving changes to site administration. PA recently re-launched under a new ownership along with a new look and feel. Their BitTorrent section seem to have received a boost after the reboot but thankfully, the sites main highlight, the release date threads, remain as up-to date as ever.

Speaking of the release dates section, PA maintains up to date lists of official DVD and Blu Ray release dates of upcoming movies. Scheduled dates for DVD regions 1, 2, and 5 (R1, R2, R5) are well organized and listed in separate forum sections. Wondering how knowing a release date in advance can help you? Well, one can pretty much guess *when* a particular movie will leak online if you know its public DVD/BluRay release date. These schedules are subject to frequent change due to last minute decisions by publishers. This is one reason why most R5/R1/R2 predictions on the web soon become out of date. However, PA is one of the rare forums which regularly update its threads to reflect new schedules (which is qhy we quote them in our R5 release updates such as this). A screenshot of the release dates section can be found below:

PeerAccess is not a brand new forum and has been online for over a year. The site has so far managed to recruit around 600 members who’ve created over 1300 thrads (these statistics are after a database reset happened several months ago). It may not be the most active forum out there but the growth has been healthy. If you still haven’t got in, registrations have been opened after 4 months.

Site Name: PeerAccess (http://peeraccess.info)

Signup URL: http://peeraccess.info/register.php

Special thanks to Transformerz for the heads up.

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theRenamer – Automatically Rename & Organize Downloaded TV Episodes & Movies

Pretty much all of us download TV shows and movies from the internet (let it be from file sharing sites such as BitTorrent trackers, direct download link forums or even by a legitimate means) and store them on our desktops, laptops, portable hard drives or media player PCs. However, most of the downloaded files have different kinds of naming conventions – for example, some shows have merely the season and episode numbers while some others carry episode name as well. What if you want to rename all your media files to a standard you like? Manually doing this for each file would be a tedious task (think about a show with several seasons). The is where theRenamer comes in. It’s an excellent utility that helps you automatically rename your media files. And it’s not just a batch rename tool either; give theRenamer a file (or a set of files) which just has the episode and season number and the app will automatically fetch the episode name online and rename the file accordingly.

You can fully customize the way your video files are renamed. Under default settings, theRenamer will strip off release group name and video quality details in file and add the episode name if its missing. theRenamer is able to fetch media information from four different online sources; IMDB, TV.com, TheTVDB and EPGuides.com. Below are some examples of renamed files (using default settings, without changing anything in the app after a fresh install):

Original	Auto Renamed
The.Simpsons.S22E01.720p.HDTV.X264-DIMENSION	The Simpsons.S22E01.Elementary School Musical
The.Big.Bang.Theory.S04E19.PROPER. HDTV.XviD-LD	The Big Bang Theory.S04E19.The Zarnecki Incursion
frasier.622-med	Frasier.S06E22.Visions of Daphne

Usage of theRenamer is very simple. To rename a file, all you have to do is the drag and drop and the app will do the rest. If you are dealing with multiple files, simply select all and drag them in – this tool is able to perform batch operations and will reformat all your file names in a couple of seconds.

A full list of theRenamer features can be found below (quoted from official site page):

• A user interface that's idiot proof - using Drag & Drop.
• Fuzzy Logic sorts out the Show name, Season/Episode numbers (S1E1, 1x1 or 101 formats).
• Queries the most advanced search engine – Google
• Automatically grabs the official show name and episode titles from the most comprehensive movie database on the web - IMDb.com, TV.com, theTVDB.com and EPGUIDES.com.
• Database: Simple and automatic table for keeping track of TV website's ID number.
• Force show names: Lets you customize how the Show Name is named (if you prefer shorter names).
• Fetch Folder: Scans all files in that directory. Point it to your 'Download Complete' folder. For people who are
  too lazy to Drag & Drop.....I love it :)
• Auto Move: Automatically moves files to your TV Show Archive after it's renamed.
• Fully automate the entire rename and move process with parameter (theRenamer.exe -fetch and -fetchmovie)
• MOVIES! theRenamer now supports Movie files as well.
• Auto creates IMDb shortcut link to IMDb movie webpage.

Despite being an excellent utility, like all software out there this is not a perfect application. I got an “EPISODE TITLE MISSING” error for some files I tried to rename – this bug is apparently fixed now but I still got the error in the latest build (v7.5). Either way it’s just a minor annoyance and the fact remains this is a highly useful tool for anyone who downloads shows and movies online.

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DivXStage – Watch Or Upload High Quality Full Streaming Movies Online

Back when DivxStage launched in 2009, very few people would have thought the site would become as successful as it is today. Not only has it survived for more than two years in cyberspace with a top 15000 Alexa ranking, but in 2011 it’s known as one of the best destinations to watch or host streaming media online. At a glace, DxS might look like yet another video hosting service. However, that isn’t entirely true. Users are able to browse or search through the majority of files uploaded to the site, making it a great place to find and watch full movies, TV shows and other video content online. Video playback on DivXStage hosted media is powered by DivX Web Player, a HTML5 based online video player created by Sonic Solutions. Uploading and watching streaming video with basic privileges is free on DivXStage and a premium plan is available will added benefits.

DivXStage launched couple of years ago, advertising itself as a hosting provider for media files. And even today, most people know of for its hosting capabilities only. Perhaps the following in their FAQ may have helped create this mindset:

Can I search for files other people uploaded
Currently we do not allow such service because not everyone likes to share the files they upload. Our service aim is either to give you a way to share large files or to keep them as a private backup.

Despite the above statement in FAQ, DxS does allow users to search its database (at least a part of it). Open the ‘Directory’ tab and try searching for a movie that recently got leaked online. Chance are that you’ll get multiple results for the search, including scene releases as well as P2P encodes of the complete movie.

As we mentioned earlier, playback on DxS hosted videos is powered by DivX Web Player. It’s not the best online media player out there but a lot of DivX sites including StageVU and DxS use it (download the free version from here). You need a pretty fast internet connection to get the best out of streaming and if you run into issues such as never ending buffering, videos not being played back with black screen, etc, the troubleshooting articles located here and here might help.

Uploading and watching streaming video with basic privileges is free on DivXStage. However, they do have a premium plan which removes advertisements, enables high speed streaming and allows video downloading (there are several browser extensions making this already possible on the free plan).

Site Name: DivXStage (http://www.divxstage.net)

Registration URL: http://www.divxstage.net/register.php

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R5 DVD Release Dates Update – March, April, May 2011

It’s only been one and a half months since we last posted an R5 movie release dates update on this blog. However here we are, writing yet another article on the same topic, only a couple of weeks later. This is due to the volatile nature of DVD release dates – movie publishers tend to change these frequently and hence the need for frequent updates and corrections. Listed below are DVD (region 5) release dates for highly anticipated English movie titles due to be released this year. Wondering why knowing the release date of a movie DVD is important? With that knowledge, you can pretty much guess when a watchable leaked copy of that particular movie will appear online, on file sharing networks and other similar sites. R5 DVD release dates of major movie titles that recently premiered and of those due to be premiered this year are listed below:

Please keep in mind that these dates are subject to frequent change (you can compare revised dates with our previous list and see how much has changed during this short period of time). Additionally, note that some of the movies mentioned below have R1 DVD and Blu Ray versions already released or leaked online.

March

• Black Swan - March 10
• Vanishing on 7th Street - March 17
• Season of the Witch - March 17
• Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son - March 17
• Love, Wedding, Marriage - March 24
• Tron - March 29
• Yogi Bear - March 31
• Biutiful - March (spanish)

April

• Battle: Los Angeles - April 7
• Never Let Me Go - April 7
• Just Go With It - April 14
• The debt - April 19
• Women In Love - April 20
• Little Fockers- April 26
• Killing Bono - April 27
• The Roommate - April 28
• Kill the Irishman – April
• Without Men – April
• Age of the Dragons – April

May

• Insidious - May 5
• Rio - May 12
• Hit List - May 12
• Water for Elephants - May 19
• Bad Teacher - May 19
• What's Your Number? - May 26
• Bringing Up Bobby – May
• Witches of Oz, The – May
• A Thousand Words – May
• Lemonade Mouth – May
• I Am Number Four – May

June

• Unknown - June 2
• Hall Pass - June 9
• Priest - June 9
• Hanna – June
• Mars Needs Moms – June
• Blood Out – June
• No Strings Attached – June
• Dilemma, The – June
• Poolboy: Drowning Out the Fury – June
• Paul - June
  Attack the Block – June

July

• Sucker Punch - July 28
• Adjustment Bureau, The – July
• Sinbad and the Minotaur – July
• You May Not Kiss the Bride – July

August

• Red Riding Hood - August 11
• Drive Angry 3D - August 25
• Rango – August
• September
• Beaver, The – September
• One Day – September

October

• Hangover Part II, The - October 6
• Journey 2: The Mysterious Island - October 6
• Arthur - October 13
• Green Lantern - October 20
• Jane Eyre – October
• Super 8 – October
• Thor – October
• Fast Five – October

November

• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 - November 17
• Johnny English Reborn – November
• Machine Gun Preacher – November
• Transformers: Dark of the Moon – November

December

• A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas - December 8
• LOL – December
• Captain America: The First Avenger – December

The above dates were quoted from a forum post on SCC by user SooPy. Over the last couple of months, he’s been a good source of info for our R5 update blog posts. Additionally, stay tuned for an updated review and open registrations on PeerAcces, a forum dedicated to R1, R2, R5 and Blu Ray release dates and more.

The R5 DVD Format – Background information:

The R5 format was first introduced to minimize DVD movie piracy in areas such as Russia, Indian subcontinent and Africa. These DVDs are usually released ahead of other regions and are cheaper than their R1/R2 counterparts (in an attempt to convert would-be pirates). However, scene/P2P groups too use this to their advantage by making releases combining video ripped from R5 DVDs (which have near DVDRip quality) and English audio from CAM/TS sources. A R5 is the next best thing for BitTorrent downloaders unless a DVDRip, BRRip or a true HD copy of the movie is already available.

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