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I'm bored, and I might might take this up as an after-hours project (perhaps as a chrome extension). I'd appreciate if HN readers could answer these questions (
by sangnoir 6y ago
I'm bored, and I might might take this up as an after-hours project (perhaps as a chrome extension). I'd appreciate if HN readers could answer these questions (it would save me a lot of time researching)
1. Can out-of-the-box VLC be an adequate replacement? It can play YouTube videos and it can also load & display .srt caption files (least work for me, but will hit channel's incomes)
2. Can browser extensions easily query the playback time on a YouTube video with sub-second accuracy?
3. Can a browser extension easily overlay text over a YouTube video? I'm thinking anti-clickjacking security might get in the way, but I'm not familiar with the current extensions security models.
- nestorD 6y ago3: I use the Substital extension which can overlay subtitles over a youtibe video (over most video players in fact).
- redthrow 6y agoI think the people behind the popular "Language Learning with Netflix" Chrome extension are already working on the YouTube version https://languagelearningwithnetflix.com/ https://languagelearningwithnetflix.com/
- Thorrez 6y agoThis Chrome extension (Subtitles for YouTube) already can overlay custom subtitles on youtube. It will even automatically search external subtitle websites for the url of the video you're viewing and load subtitles for that video from those websites. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/subtitles-for-youtube/oanhbddbfkjaphdibnebkklpplclomal https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/subtitles-for-yout...