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VLC player demos real-time AI subtitling for videos (www.theverge.com)
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The popular open-source VLC video player was demonstrated on the floor of CES 2025 with automatic AI subtitling and translation, generated locally and offline in real time. Parent organization VideoLAN shared a video on Tuesday in which president Jean-Baptiste Kempf shows off the new feature, which uses open-source AI models to generate subtitles for videos in several languages. 

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I mean, it would. For example Jellyfin implements it, but it does so by extracting the pictures ahead of time and saving them. It takes days to do this for my library.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah, I do this for plex as well, and stash. I think if the file already exists in the directory vlc should use it. It’s up to you to generate them. That is exactly how cover art for albums on songs worked in VLC for a decade before they added the feature to pull cover art on the fly.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

I get what you are saying, but I don't think there is any standardized format for these trickplay images. The same images from Plex would likely not be usable in Jellyfin without converting the metadata (e.g. to which time in the video an image belongs to). So VLC probably does not have a good way to understand trickplay images not made by VLC.