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Re:After 15 Years, the Pirate Bay Still Can’t Be Killed by mijamo on Friday May 24, 2019 @04:28AM (#19999577)
Arabic/chinese/japanse subtitles work perfectly in VLC work perfectly and look much nicer tahn on Netflix for instance.

I have never seen descriptive video services in any streaming service so I very much doubt it is a major issue, and even in that case why wouldn't you be able to mix it with the main track in a separate channel (which is what is done on TV, as TV does not support multiple active tracks either) ?

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Re:After 15 Years, the Pirate Bay Still Can’t Be Killed by zzo38computer on Sunday May 26, 2019 @12:50AM (#20013228)
Even so, being able to mix the premixed descriptive video track with the normal audio track may still be helpful to users who want different mixing levels than what they used (because sometimes the music is too quiet, for example). (I don't like descriptive video so much myself, but some people do use it, and so may wish to alter the setting.)
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Re:After 15 Years, the Pirate Bay Still Can’t Be Killed by afiori on Friday May 24, 2019 @05:24AM (#19999854)
> I have never seen descriptive video services in any streaming service

netflix has them

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Re:After 15 Years, the Pirate Bay Still Can’t Be Killed by fooker on Saturday May 25, 2019 @12:07PM (#20009750)
What if some particular video doesn't? If I have a file I can download a .srt and have the video player display it.
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