cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/37011397
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.
As vlc is open source, can we expect this technology to also be available for, say, jellyfin, so that I can for once and for all have subtitles.done right?
Edit: I think it’s great that vlc has this, but this sounds like something many other apps could benefit from
It’s already available for anyone to use. https://github.com/openai/whisper
They’re using OpenAI’s Whisper model for this: https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc/-/merge_requests/5155
Note that openai’s original whisper models are pretty slow; in my experience the distil-whisper project (via a tool like whisperx) is more than 10x faster.
Has there been any estimated minimal system requirements for this yet, since it runs locally?
It’s actually using whisper.cpp
From the README:
Memory usage Model Disk Mem tiny 75 MiB ~273 MB base 142 MiB ~388 MB small 466 MiB ~852 MB medium 1.5 GiB ~2.1 GB large 2.9 GiB ~3.9 GiB
Those are the model sizes
Oh wow those pretty tiny memory requirements for a decent modern system! That’s actually very impressive! :D
Many people can probably even run this on older media servers or even just a plain NAS! That’s awesome! :D
crunchyroll is currently using AI subtitles. it’s obvious because when someone says “mothra. Funky…” it captions “mother fucker”
That explains why their subtitles have seemed worse to me lately. Every now and then I see something obviously wrong and wonder how it got by anyone who looked at it. Now I know why. No one looked at it.
my wife and I love laughing at the dumbass mistakes it makes.
some characters name is Asura Halls?
instead of “That’s Asura Halls!” you get “That asshole!”
but if I was actually hearing impaired I’d be really pissed that I’m being treated as second class even though Sony still took my money like everyone else.
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I hope it’s available for Stash App. I wanna know what this JAV girls are saying.
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Ooooh I like this