Suspended from Google Play for listing supported subtitle formats

Re:Suspended from Google Play for listing supported subtitle... by kuschku on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @05:24AM (#25914246)

And while there are ways to implement ASS in the browser, those require compiling the one single ASS library that actually works (because it’s an implementation-defined format, ofc) to WASM and running that in the browser. With the expected performance issues.

Now try running that on a Chromecast >_>

The fansubbing community is just so stuck in weird formats which provide no benefit except a virtual moat preventing newcomers.

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Re:Suspended from Google Play for listing supported subtitle... by Hamuko on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @06:42AM (#25914688)

Can you watch Crunchyroll on a Chromecast? They at least use ASS in the browser.

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Re:Suspended from Google Play for listing supported subtitle... by kuschku on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @08:45AM (#25915677)

Sure, but only the english subtitle, and you can’t disable it. For Chromecast, you have to use the burned-in subtitles.

Which is expected, considering the hardware just isn’t powerful enough for ASS subtitles (to get good performance, even on a desktop you’ll want a recent CPU and at least 1-2GB of RAM): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromecast#Model_comparison

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