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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/37011397

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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] 26 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I hope Mozilla can benefit of a good local translation engine that could come out of it as well.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I know they do, but it's lacking so many languages.

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

And it takes forever. I'm using the TWP plugin for Firefox (which uses external resources, configurable to google, bing and yandex translate respectively), and it's near instantaneous. The local one from Mozilla often takes 30 seconds, and sometimes hangs until I refresh the page.

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

Weird, I can translate with FF even on my phone and it's not a strong one.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

When does this get released? I really want to try it

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

When we getting amd's fsr upscaling and frame-gen? Also would subtitles make more sense to use the jellyfin approach.

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

I have an AMD card, add VLC as a game in the drivers, and you can turn on AMFM (frame gen).

If it doesn't work you could just turn it on system wide in display settings of the Adrenaline Software (gear upper right corner, display/gaming).

I think it requires at least a 6000 series GPU however.

If you have a Samsung TV or other modern smart TV connected to a laptop, you can also turn on frame-gen using Auto Motion Plus, set to Custom.

Judder Reduction 10 is double frames, so 24 FPS -> 48.

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

I'm using Linux. There probably is a way to have a similar outcome but an integrated solution as vlc and amd once mentioned would be better.

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

Gamescope probably. It has launch options to force FSR iirc

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago

Haven't watched the video yet, but it makes a lot of sense that you could train an AI using already subtitled movies and their audio. There are times when official subtitles paraphrase the speech to make it easier to read quickly, so I wonder how that would work. There's also just a lot of voice recognition everywhere nowadays, so maybe that's all they need?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

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

I will be impressed only when it can get through a single episode of Still Game without making a dozen mistakes

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