cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/37011397

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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.

  • TheRealKuni@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    And yet they turned down having thumbnails for seeking because it would be too resource intensive. 😐

    • serenissi@lemmy.world
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      36 minutes ago

      It is useful for internet streams though, not really for local or lan video.