DiGMi

Lately I’ve been watching a lot of movies using Apple TV as a streamer.
I am using Beamer as the streaming app for my macbook air. Beamer also supports streaming with subtitles, which is a very cool feature, but you need to download the subtitles manually.

A year ago, I’ve built a Mac app called Sheeplayer which is a basic video player with the capabilities of downloading subtitles automatically from OpenSubtitles. Today I’ve decided to extract this capability into an independent script so I will be able to download the subtitles automatically to a given folder without executing any other program.

The script can be found at my github at: https://github.com/DiGMi/OsDown.

I’ve upgraded my scheduling script to 2014.
It is located at the same place as the old one (http://www.digmi.org/huji/).

The current data is taken from the university’s website and hasn’t been formally published yet. Changes in the scheduling may occur, take that into consideration.

*** Working again! ***

Few guys I’m studying with are recording all of the Quantum theory lectures and sharing them with us using Google Drive.

The problem is that Google drive’s players lacks the feature of “fast forward”, which is essential if you don’t wanna wast a lot of time while reviewing old lectures.

So, I’ve dedicated few hours and came up with the following script that replaces the default player with one that has those features.

Instructions for Chrome users:

1. Download the script from the link below.
2. Click on the menu button near the address bar (the button with the three horizontal lines)
3. Choose tools and extensions
4. Drag the file you’ve just downloaded to the newly opened tab in chrome.
5. Enjoy

After installation, whenever you will open a video that is stored in video drive, the player will be replaced and a text field and a button will be added. In order to control the speed of the playback, just type in the required speed and click the button. For example in order to view the video in double speed, just type 2 and click the button.

Download the UserScript

Please Note: I didn’t test it well enough, and currently it’s a bit ugly. Well very ugly. There might be issues with some videos. Please let me know about any problem you’ve got.