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[iFixit] Worst in Show 2025: Not All Innovation Is Good Innovation | The Most Overengineered, Unrepairable, and Unsustainable Tech Disasters at CES (www.ifixit.com)
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[–] [email protected] 106 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/9/24339817/vlc-player-automatic-ai-subtitling-translation

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.

Ok now that's cool. Since it's often all doom and gloom here, celebrating good tech is a nice change :)

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Since VLC is open source, can we expect this AI subtitle generator as a separate product that could be used in, say, jellyfin?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I use subgen to generate my subtitles locally. I have it linked to Bazarr but apparently there’s webhooks for Jellyfin.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

This is fantastic, thank you for sharing. I’ve struggled with some media not having suitable subtitles available for download.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Apparently there's a pluggin for that already: https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin/discussions/6105

Oh actually not specifically for that, but sounds like it would be possible, maybe make a feature request for it once the vlc ones source is available.

[–] RageAgainstTheRich 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This is something I'm very much behind. I think firefox is doing something similar if i am not mistaken. One of my favorite shows is a Japanese tv show called GameCenter CX. Fans create subtitles but its a lot of work. Lately they have been using ai to generate subtitles and while some are a bit messed up, you at least get the idea what is going on and they can work off of that if necessary.

[–] TheGrandNagus 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Firefox has offline translation and image alt-text tagging (for screen readers), but people bitched about it when Mozilla introduced it.

I'm glad people seem broadly receptive of it now that VLC is doing something similar.