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The Simpsons in China and Bullet Subtitles
- porfirium 9y agoI wish there was a [podcast] mark or something like that, like there's a [video]--I hate consuming information in audio form, this would help me avoid a click.
- lnanek2 9y agoYeah, that was a wasted click for me too
- ohazi 9y agoIs there a plug-in similar to video speed controller that works for embedded audio widgets like these? Being able to speed up slow video is great, wish I could do the same for audio without figuring out how to download it first.
- ollin 9y agoI've gotten used to quickly bringing up the console (Command + alt + j on macOS Chrome, varies by platform) and running document.querySelectorAll("audio").forEach(x => x.playbackRate = 2.0) (And "video" for video tags). But it doesn't seem to work on this page because SquareSpace isn't actually adding any audio tags to the DOM (even though the mp3 URL is there). So instead you can run window.location.href = /http[^\s]+\.mp3/ig.exec(document.body.innerHTML)[0] To navigate to just the mp3 URL, and then run the playbackRate snippet in the newly-created tab to set the speed.
- djrogers 9y agoIt would be helpful if there were some explanation as to what a 'bullet subtitle' is...
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- extra88 9y agoagreed. "The word refers to the commentaries shooting across the screen, in the style of an arcade shooting game." http://www.theworldofchinese.com/2014/12/bullet-to-the-head-intro-to-bullet-subtitles/ http://www.theworldofchinese.com/2014/12/bullet-to-the-head-...
- gcb0 9y agomaybe HN crashed the site? here is the archive url https://web.archive.org/web/20161110180302/http://www.theworldofchinese.com/2014/12/bullet-to-the-head-intro-to-bullet-subtitles/ https://web.archive.org/web/20161110180302/http://www.thewor...
- cJ0th 9y agoIt's in the podcast at the bottom of the page.
- khedoros1 9y agoI was just thinking "Wow, that was a particularly information-bare article". I skipped over the embedded podcast because I thought it looked like some kind of ad.
- jhanschoo 9y agoBullet subtitles are basically short comments that scroll over the video at a certain point in time in the video; they allow for commentary more localized to specific events in the video. The first popular (and first, afaict) place where bullet subtitles have been used was the NicoNico Douga Japanese video streaming web service.