Stop using shitty sites, start torrenting. Almost all decent torrent releases have subtitles and/or CCs.
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So this might get some flag but I have hat some luck running a 100% local AI model to do this. Generating subtitles for movies or shows where I could not find any at all or know someone willing enough to translate the whole thing.
This is literally one of the best use cases for LLM. I mean hell deepL exist and people aren't angry at it. Tho it's not really a general LLM.
But yeah, anyone being upset someone is using a language model for one of the few legitimately useful and good things it provides us. Is just being a hater for the sake of being a hater.
I did a python script using whisper that create an srt file with any movie you pass on. Results are not super good, but is watchable. Also if you have a very good video card, you can use another model, I'm using here medium.en with an 8gb rtx5060 Here:
I'm gonna give you flak, but only for calling it flag :)
🤣 Yeah understandable
Finding a use case for AI? Believe it or not, straight to prison
You wanna tell the rest of the class which model? Because I have had recommendations but they were more theoretical than actually vouched by someone running their local model. Whisper is supposed to be good for English and the free AI online will recommend it, but as soon as you scratch a bit you'll learn about better models for other languages (Chinese, in my case).
The landscape changes frequently even sometimes two of three times a week.
I use whisper and various whisper variants generally. But I've recently tried hy-mt2 and found it to be really good as well.
Hy-mt2 is a tencent model so it may do Chinese really well. My personal use case is translating Bollywood and Chinese movies to English.
Thank you for sharing!
When I get back home I take a look, it is a bit ago. But it was not hard to do in the end with docker and a nvidia 3090.
Care to elaborate? I'm not a huge fan of AI, but in f it works well for subtitles, I'll happily try it out
I’m not a huge fan of calculators but if it works well for multiplication I’ll happily try it out.
Have you tried the FastStream web browser extension? Among its features is subtitle search for a stream you're watching.
https://github.com/Andrews54757/FastStream
I've even used it on legit sites that already had subtitles, to find some with a better translation.
That add-on looks so good, but the hoops I gotta jump on Firefox are a bit too much
I installed it over a year ago, didn't realize it had become so difficult now in Firefox.
Might be worth having a "single-purpose install" of a Chrome-based browser like Helium just for watching streaming video.
Stremio has it from all the typical release groups with an array of subtitle options, so it should be readily available as a torrent as well.
I only watch an episode every 1-2 days, and I don't consider a paid VPN worth for torrent this little, neither I wanna torrent without one in this age.
After like 3-4 nights I spent trying different sites rather than watching, I'm considering just going without closed captions even if I don't understand everything.
Totally sucks if you ask me, it's getting a challenge to be a pirate lately
You can use stremio with http addons (that's what I actually do) https://stremio-addons.net/addons?categories=http+streams&sort=popular
Is learning a language and enjoyment of your show not worth $1-2 a month? How are these dodgy sites safer to rawdog than Usenet or torrents?
Torrents expose you to uploading risk unless unless you turbo leech I guess.
Users if the dodgy sites aren’t on the radar of the media companies in the same way torrent downloaders are.
If you're willing to set up Stremio, Torbox is only $3 a month for its cheapest plan with API access.
Some players can shift timing of the subtitles. Then you can just adjust timing of any subtitles with correct framerate. You can even adjust the framerate. Once you learn how to do it, it's fast and simple.
Lookmovie2.to has a large selection of subtitles