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985 points gyan | 3 comments | 22 Aug 25 15:22 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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0xbeefcab ◴[22 Aug 25 15:37 UTC] No.44985890[source]▶
Linking a previous discussion to FFMPEG's inclusion of whisper in this release: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44886647

This seemed to be interesting to users of this site. tl;dr they added support for whisper, an OpenAI model for speech-to-text, which should allow autogeneration of captions via ffmpeg

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Culonavirus ◴[22 Aug 25 15:43 UTC] No.44985980[source]▶
these days most movies and series already come out with captions, but you know what does not, given the vast amount of it?... ;)

yep, finally the deaf will able to read what people are saying in a porno!

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1. yieldcrv ◴[22 Aug 25 16:31 UTC] No.44986541[source]▶
And also pirated releases are super weird and all over the place with subtitles and video player compatibility

This could streamline things

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2. bobsmooth ◴[22 Aug 25 18:00 UTC] No.44987611[source]▶
There's websites where you can download subtitles. Usually from very obviously pirated released.
3. PokestarFan ◴[22 Aug 25 18:42 UTC] No.44988199[source]▶
This is because blurays ship their subtitles as a bunch of text images. So pirates have 3 options:

1. Just copy them over from the Bluray. This lacks support in most client players, so you'll either need to download a player that does, or use something like Plex/Jellyfin, which will run FFMpeg to transcode and burn the picture subtitles in before sending it to the client.

2. Run OCR on the Bluray subtitles. Not perfect.

3. Steal subtitles from a streaming service release (or multiple) if it exists.

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