VLC media player, the popular open-source software developed by nonprofit VideoLAN, has topped 6 billion downloads worldwide and teased an AI-powered VLC media player, the open-source video software developed by nonprofit VideoLan, has topped 6 billion downloads.
I know people are gonna freak out about the AI part in this.
But as a person with hearing difficulties this would be revolutionary. So much shit I usually just can’t watch because open subtitles doesn’t have any subtitles for it.
Not sure if the .com one is supposed to be a more modern frontend for the .org or something but I’ve found different subtitles on them so it’s good to use both.
The most important part is that it’s a local LLM model running on your machine. The problem with AI is less about LLMs themselves, and more about their control and application by unethical companies and governments in a world driven by profit and power. And it’s none of those things, it’s just some open source code running on your device. So that’s cool and good.
Curious how resource intensive AI subtitle generation will be. Probably fine on some setups.
Trying to use madVR (tweaker’s video postprocessing) in the summer in my small office with an RTX 3090 was turning my office into a sauna. Next time I buy a video card it’ll be a lower tier deliberately to avoid the higher power draw lol.
I know people are gonna freak out about the AI part in this.
But as a person with hearing difficulties this would be revolutionary. So much shit I usually just can’t watch because open subtitles doesn’t have any subtitles for it.
I agree that this is a nice thing, just gotta point out that there are several other good websites for subtitles. Here are the ones I use frequently:
https://subdl.com/
https://www.podnapisi.net/
https://www.subf2m.co/
And if you didn’t know, there are two opensubtitles websites:
https://www.opensubtitles.com/
https://www.opensubtitles.org/
Not sure if the .com one is supposed to be a more modern frontend for the .org or something but I’ve found different subtitles on them so it’s good to use both.
The most important part is that it’s a local
LLMmodel running on your machine. The problem with AI is less about LLMs themselves, and more about their control and application by unethical companies and governments in a world driven by profit and power. And it’s none of those things, it’s just some open source code running on your device. So that’s cool and good.Also the incessant ammounts of power/energy that they consume.
Curious how resource intensive AI subtitle generation will be. Probably fine on some setups.
Trying to use madVR (tweaker’s video postprocessing) in the summer in my small office with an RTX 3090 was turning my office into a sauna. Next time I buy a video card it’ll be a lower tier deliberately to avoid the higher power draw lol.
Yeah, transcription is one of the only good uses for LLMs imo. Of course they can still produce nonsense, but bad subtitles are better none at all.
Indeed, YouTube had auto generated subtitles for a while now and they are far from perfect, yet I still find it useful.