I'm fine watching porn without subtitles
this post was submitted on 09 Jan 2025
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Why are you using VLC for porn? You download porn?!
my state banned pornhub so I made a big ass stash just in case, so yeah I guess. I also have a stash of music from YouTube in case they ever fully block YT-DLP, so I'm just a general data hoarder.
Land of the Free!
Still no live audio encoding without CLI (unless you stream to yourself), so no plug and play with Dolby/DTS
Encoding params still max out at 512 kpbs on every codec without CLI.
Can't switch audio backends live (minor inconvenience, tbh)
Creates a barely usable non standard M3A format when saving a playlist.
I think that's about my only complaints for VLC. The default subtitles are solid, especially with multiple text boxes for signs. Playback has been solid for ages. Handles lots of tracks well, and doesn't just wrap ffmpeg so it's very useful for testing or debugging your setup against mplayer or mpv.
Now if only I could get it to play nice with my Chromecast... But I'm sure that's on Google.
Or shitty mDNS implementations
I am still waiting for seek previews
MPC-BE
I've been waiting for ~~this~~ break-free playback for a long time. Just play Dark Side of the Moon without breaks in between tracks. Surely a single thread could look ahead and see the next track doesn't need any different codecs launched, it's technically identical to the current track, there's no need to have a break. /rant
accessibility is honestly the first good use of ai. i hope they can find a way to make them better than youtube's automatic captions though.
While LLMs are truly impressive feats of engineering, it's really annoying to witness the tech hype train once again.
The app Be My Eyes pivoted from crowd sourced assistance to the blind, to using AI and it's just fantastic. AI is truly helping lots of people in certain applications.
Spoiler: they won't
Spoiler, they will! I use FUTO keyboard on android, it's speech to text uses an ai model and it is amazing how great it works. The model it uses is absolutely tiny compared to what a PC could run so VLC's implementation will likely be even better.
I also use FUTO and it's great. But subtitles in a video are quite different than you clearly speaking into a microphone. Even just loud music will mess with a good Speech-to-text engine let alone [Explosions] and [Fighting Noises]. At the least I hope it does pick up speech well.
There are other good uses of AI. Medicine. Genetics. Research, even into humanities like history.
The problem always was the grifters who insist calling any program more complicated than adding two numbers AI in the first place, trying to shove random technologies into random products just to further their cancerous sales shell game.
The problem is mostly CEOs and salespeople thinking they are software engineers and scientists.
I know Jeff Geerling on Youtube uses OpenAIs Whisper to generate captions for his videos instead of relying on Youtube's. Apparently they are much better than Youtube's being nearly flawless. I would have a guess that Google wants to minimize the compute that they use when processing videos to save money.
Perhaps we could also get a built-in AI tool for automatic subtitle synchronization?
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