Re:Can't pay, won't pay: streaming services are driving view...
by wjholden on Friday August 15, 2025 @12:42AM
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I had never thought of this before. What is the solution? Can any video software show two subtitles at once?
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Re:Can't pay, won't pay: streaming services are driving view...
by schiffern on Friday August 15, 2025 @12:54AM
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VLC, mpv, and SMPlayer all support dual subtitles, with varying amounts of fiddling.
https://old.reddit.com/r/VLC/comments/hnle2o/dual_subtitles/
https://superuser.com/questions/1255487/how-to-get-vlc-to-di...
Re:Can't pay, won't pay: streaming services are driving view...
by smacke on Friday August 15, 2025 @12:49AM
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I developed a tool (https://github.com/smacke/ffsubsync) which can sync subtitles against each other (or even against an audio track), and this can be used in conjunction with other tools such as https://pypi.org/project/srt/ to combine multiple subtitle streams into a single stream. I've used this strategy to good effect to get both English and Chinese subtitles up at once.
Re:Can't pay, won't pay: streaming services are driving view...
by presentation on Friday August 15, 2025 @06:55AM
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For Netflix and YouTube I actually use a language learning chrome extension called Migaku, that has this feature - but if there don’t exist subs, can also sometimes pull it off with a chrome extension for dual subs - forget what it is called but I can download SRT files and load them up alongside a stream. Both are not reliable and require significant fiddling.