It's true, one does not simply log into Mordor.
this post was submitted on 06 Feb 2024
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The exact moment OpenSubtitles becomes ClosedCaption
They are transitioning to their .com domain, whose only bonus, other than the wait time and ads, is serving files directly rather than zipped. They could offer this feature on the original .org site with no downsides (the traffic won't increase because 99% of devices will support gzip on the application layer anyway) but I wonder why they don't.
OpenSubtitles is hot garbage, a viable alternative needs to exist. Pray for Subscene
Ironically, this might be an area where machine learning could be beneficial.
I've been watching a few projects that are attempting to live translate videos. We are very close
Live is great but I don’t think it’d be feasible for most languages to be a real 1:1 translation in live.
Even a 10s delay allows for the whole sentence/phrase to be captured and translated in entirety. A lot of languages can drastically change meaning due to a word on the other side of the sentence.
The great thing about television, is that "live" is a flexible concept.
The playback software could happily play 10 seconds ahead of what's actually on the screen, and have plenty of time to translate like that.
In the same way that we sometimes put delays into live events to allow the subtitling systems breathing room.
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I absolutely hate to watch subtitles appear word for word. So no, please no live captions.
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I typically grab the better quality rips and they almost always come with subtitles. Three hats ones are older or more obscure movies/shows that don't have many options to choose from.
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I once saw a movie where the subtitles before the movie were like "join my wow guild". Loved it
Did you join it tho?
Never played it :(
Never played it :) *
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Are you watching this on a Nintendo DS or something?
It looks like they really wanted to get both frames in one picture, so they did the obvious thing…load one frame on your phone, another frame on your partners, and then take your 2007 flip phone out of the drawer and use that to take a picture of both of them.
Side note: why is it SO HARD to put two images together into one image file on a smartphone? There are multiple apps that want $1.99/mo for the privilege of making a collage, Instagram Layout has been broken for years now, and the first party solutions (particularly Google Photos) are overengineered in some big ways (like not allowing you to make a collage without some kind of border) and underengineered in others (like not allowing you to choose an image from a search, make a different search, and then choose another image). And as far as I can tell the only way to actually put one image on top of another is to use Double Exposure on Snapseed.
We've had this problem solved on Windows for literally my entire life, and I'm pushing 40. So why can't we figure out basic, no frills raster editing on mobile? I'm not even talking about layers (though, yes please). I'm talking about pretty much anything other than a filter.
i've had this issue so many times I just gave up and now use gimp from vnc connected on localhost to termux
"Just." That's awesome.
I mean that. I'm not being sarcastic. I love that idea. I just don't have the capacity for something like that; I just want something built in to Android.
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I'm telling you, there will be a streaming service that will deepfake ads into finished movies. Darth Vader will turn at the at the camera and say "No, I am your father... and you should buy the Elon Musk biography on audible dot com for free"
Slow down there, Satan. I kid you not, I had someone approach me to help develop technology like this a long time ago. The idea was to break into video streams at the ISP and insert advertising on the fly w/o prior approval.
My reaction, after realizing this person wanted to turn the internet into an ad-encrusted wasteland*, was: "What happens when that video stream is something live with a LOT of money behind it, like the Superbowl?" The legal and professional ramifications didn't even clock with this guy. It was squarely in the "not my problem" category.
(* More-so than it is now. I'm not saying we're getting off light, but this guy was a-okay with making everything look like the hallway bulletin board in a college dorm.)
That's the kind of guy who invents the idea of selling a subscription to seat heating in your own car.
Exactly. I tell this story to remind people that cynics aren't just old cranks on internet forums. They're also salespeople that decided to make some cash on our way to (consumer) hell, and they're entitled to a turn at holding the pitchfork.
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That's been going on since Blockbuster was a growth company. Like 20 years ago, for the TV (or maybe DVD, I forget which) release of Get Shorty, they 'shopped in an Oldsmobile Sillouette minivan as a product placement, replacing the original vehicle.
"Its the Cadillac of minivans."
edit: Actually, the Olds was the one in the theatrical release, which got replaced with another make/model for TV. All the releases I can find so far include the Sillouette.
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And for our next sponsor, check out Raid Shadow of Mordor
Leslie I typed your symptoms into this box and it says you might have network connectivity issues?
According to a site admin from that forum post (which is from April 2021--who knows where things stand now):
If you use the OpenSubtitles website manually, you will have advertisements on the web site, NOT inside the subtitles.
If you use some API-software to download subtitles (Plex, Kodi, BSPlayer or whatever), you are not using the web site, so you do NOT have these web advertisements. To compensate this, ads are being added on-the-fly to the subtitles itself.
Also, from a different admin
add few words from my side - it is good you are talking about ads. They not generating a lot of revenue, but on other side we have more VIP subscriptions because of it :) We have in ads something like "Become VIP member and Remove all ads..."
Also, the ads in subtitles are always inserted on "empty" space. It is never in middle of movie. What Roozel wrote - "I think placing those ads at the beginning and end is somewhat OK but not in the middle or at random points in the film" - should not happen, if yes, send me the subtitle.
If the subtitle is from tv series, there are dialogues from beginning usually. System is finding "quiet" place where ads would fit, and yes, this can be after 3 minutes of dialogue...
This is important to know, I hope now it is more clear about subtitle ads - why we are doing this, there is possibility to remove them and how system works.
so a scenario like in the screenshot isn't supposed to happen. I guess if you really wanted to see if it happens you could grab all the English subs via the API and just do a quick grep or what-have-you
I'm curious how much companies like NordVPN pay them to inject ads into subtitles for pirated media.
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Jesus Christ fuck them. "Fair is fair"?
You'd think they were making the damn things themselves.
Yeah, if they weren't sourced by people giving them to them under other pretenses I wouldn't judge.
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Scummy.
Samwise was a fellow who was always there with a ready smile and a network security recommendation
“One does not simply walk into Mordor…” Boromir turns to the camera and continues, “…unlike this video’s sponsor - nordvpn! With the code ‘flame of the west’ you can simply walk your way into an 85% discount off the price of a full years subscription! Thanks nordvpn, and now back to the council of Elrond”
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This is pirate on pirate violence. Blasphemy.
Nord VPN can protect you from 3rd parties* that spy on your activities and sell your data.
*Disclaimer: The Eye of Sauron does not apply. Offer not valid in Mordor.
I occasionally see those types of ads in subs downloaded through the Plex UI, but usually it's in an intro or at the end. Haven't seen them in the middle of a dialogue yet.
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I've had good luck lately with SubScene, I've only downloaded a few files though, so not a huge sample set
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There are a few scripts available on GitHub to remove these ads automagically
Can bazarr fix this crap? I got something similar recently.
Stop using bad trackers and it won't happen
I use opensubtitles, and I'd love to but it's not particularly easy to just get into good trackers.
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I've seen stuff like that in subtitles during the opening or ending credits a few times. Never when the movie was still playing tho...
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Some of them try and sneak an ad at the start or end. It's rare though.
Most stuff now is mkv which has a good chance of including the subtitles straight from the Blu-ray or streaming service.
I tend to wait for at least a digital or physical release before downloading so I don't get a load of blurry crap with an ad for an Asian gambling site splattered across the middle of it.
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