opensubtitles.org blocked in Australia

[loadedballs420]

This isn't an issue with this extension exactly - as the title says, many subtitle sites have been banned in Australia, so obviously vlsub times out trying to retrieve results.

Would be great in a future version to have the ability to specify other subtitle sources (MPC HC does this from vanilla version).

Thanks for your hard work!

[xerod]

Paste this to your hosts file

# [OPENSUBTITLES.ORG]
104.26.8.126 www.opensubtitles.org api.opensubtitles.org cache.opensubtitles.org cdn.opensubtitles.org dl.opensubtitles.org forum.opensubtitles.org monitor.opensubtitles.org munin.opensubtitles.org player.opensubtitles.org static.opensubtitles.org static1.opensubtitles.org static2.opensubtitles.org static3.opensubtitles.org support.opensubtitles.org translate.opensubtitles.org
104.26.9.126 www.opensubtitles.org api.opensubtitles.org cache.opensubtitles.org cdn.opensubtitles.org dl.opensubtitles.org forum.opensubtitles.org monitor.opensubtitles.org munin.opensubtitles.org player.opensubtitles.org static.opensubtitles.org static1.opensubtitles.org static2.opensubtitles.org static3.opensubtitles.org support.opensubtitles.org translate.opensubtitles.org
104.26.9.126 trac.opensubtitles.org
104.26.9.126 vip-api.opensubtitles.org
104.26.8.126 rest.opensubtitles.org
0.0.0.0 ads1.opensubtitles.org
0.0.0.0 ads2.opensubtitles.org
92.240.234.120 db1.opensubtitles.org
92.240.234.124 ftp.opensubtitles.org                                                                                                      
92.240.234.123 fw1.opensubtitles.org
188.40.39.36  ns1.opensubtitles.org                                                                                                       
92.240.234.122 ng.opensubtitles.org ns.opensubtitles.org dev.opensubtitles.org w2.opensubtitles.org w3.opensubtitles.org w5.opensubtitles.org w1.opensubtitles.org w4.opensubtitles.org

[porg]

This should be closed as the answer addresses both what the reason for this is and how to possibly fix it if affected.