VLC tops 6B downloads, previews AI-generated subtitles

Re:VLC tops 6B downloads, previews AI-generated subtitles by soco on Thursday January 09, 2025 @09:55AM (#42646231)

I guess you can have that in a real life situation as well, where you don't have subtitles at all (hello AR) and still can handle. Do you want your subtitles full of metadata the whole movie for every movie and every day, for those several situations when the image director made a mess? You can always play that confusing scene again.

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Re:VLC tops 6B downloads, previews AI-generated subtitles by lxgr on Thursday January 09, 2025 @11:54AM (#42647489)

I definitely prefer subtitles to be as helpful as possible, yes. That includes having situationally appropriate metadata (which is different from "all the metadata, all the time").

I don't think that's an unrealistic goal to have for AIs; they're already extremely good at semantic scene description after all. By looking at the image in addition to just the audio track they probably also get a lot more metadata, which a refined world model will eventually be able to use just like a human subtitle editor can today.

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Re:VLC tops 6B downloads, previews AI-generated subtitles by soco on Thursday January 09, 2025 @12:25PM (#42647799)

So you mean, the AI should figure out when a problematic scene is coming, and only then add labels and whatnot? Not impossible, just somebody must teach them, same with subtitles positioning.

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