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Mpv – A free, open-source, and cross-platform media player

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1113 points Bluestein | 2 comments | 17 Aug 24 18:56 UTC | HN request time: 0.647s | source
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ksdnjweusdnkl21 ◴[18 Aug 24 07:26 UTC] No.41280757[source]▶
It sounds stupid but the killer feature for me is possibility to have multiple subtitles visible, all easily configurable with a few keybinds (track, offset, position, size etc). No streaming service provides this, and they actively omit subtitle languages that aren't "relevant" to your geolocation. I cannot respect a service like that.
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1. cenamus ◴[18 Aug 24 08:07 UTC] No.41280910[source]▶
Especially for things like language learning they are amazing, but services like Amazon show like two (English and the local language) out of the 30 something they have available. And I won't even go into the difference of subtitles and dubbing...
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2. ksdnjweusdnkl21 ◴[18 Aug 24 08:19 UTC] No.41280957[source]▶
For language learning there are some scripts that allow you to hover words and show translations for them. I haven't used them myself with mpv, but I found that kind of tools to be invaluable on a browser when learning a language with a foreign script.