FileBot is a great utility for finding the names and subtitles of downloaded TV shows and movies. I use it as part of a shell script to organise downloaded media files.
Unfortunately, the suggested way to invoke it from the command line is simply to call filebot, e.g. /Applications/FileBot.app/Contents/MacOS/filebot ....
This was causing FileBot to pop up a Java icon in the dock and steal focus, whenever it was invoked which was driving me crazy. Fortunately the solution is simple: Run the FileBot jar directly with the awt.headless set to true. As follows:
java -jar -Djava.awt.headless=true /Applications/FileBot.app/Contents/Resources/java/FileBot.jar ...
No more annoying icon.
Gonna add that to the shell script. Thanks for the tip.
That’s great, thank you!
Now I just need to figure out how to get Chinese language subtitles working — they never get found. Maybe a script that asks shooter.cn directly…?
Should work, added the transcoding feature just so I can auto-convert chinese subtitles into utf-8 srts. But the DBs I use probably don’t have many chinese subs in general. shooter.cn doesn’t have a full API. There is something for search, but download is restricted to people that visit the website.
btw i dont’check here often, just happened to show up on google alerts, please post issues in the filebot forums