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I have another problem, which is that my wife is Japanese and I’m American, and if we watch a French movie then I want the English subs and she wants the Japane

I have another problem, which is that my wife is Japanese and I’m American, and if we watch a French movie then I want the English subs and she wants the Japanese subs. Making that work with streaming services is very painful.

wjholden 1y ago
I had never thought of this before. What is the solution? Can any video software show two subtitles at once?
- smacke 1y ago
  I developed a tool (https://github.com/smacke/ffsubsync https://github.com/smacke/ffsubsync) which can sync subtitles against each other (or even against an audio track), and this can be used in conjunction with other tools such as https://pypi.org/project/srt/ https://pypi.org/project/srt/ to combine multiple subtitle streams into a single stream. I've used this strategy to good effect to get both English and Chinese subtitles up at once.
- schiffern 1y ago
  VLC, mpv, and SMPlayer all support dual subtitles, with varying amounts of fiddling. https://old.reddit.com/r/VLC/comments/hnle2o/dual_subtitles/ https://old.reddit.com/r/VLC/comments/hnle2o/dual_subtitles/ https://superuser.com/questions/1255487/how-to-get-vlc-to-display-both-subtitles-embedded-in-mkv-video https://superuser.com/questions/1255487/how-to-get-vlc-to-di...
- presentation 1y ago
  For Netflix and YouTube I actually use a language learning chrome extension called Migaku, that has this feature - but if there don’t exist subs, can also sometimes pull it off with a chrome extension for dual subs - forget what it is called but I can download SRT files and load them up alongside a stream. Both are not reliable and require significant fiddling.
PetitPrince 1y ago
Anecdotally, for a long time dual French and German subtitles was the standard in Swiss cinemas when movie was shown in original language. So your usecase is not that unusual !
- hvb2 1y ago
  Same in Belgium, top line was Dutch, bottom line was French
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wjholden 1y ago

I had never thought of this before. What is the solution? Can any video software show two subtitles at once?

smacke 1y ago
I developed a tool (https://github.com/smacke/ffsubsync https://github.com/smacke/ffsubsync) which can sync subtitles against each other (or even against an audio track), and this can be used in conjunction with other tools such as https://pypi.org/project/srt/ https://pypi.org/project/srt/ to combine multiple subtitle streams into a single stream. I've used this strategy to good effect to get both English and Chinese subtitles up at once.
schiffern 1y ago
VLC, mpv, and SMPlayer all support dual subtitles, with varying amounts of fiddling. https://old.reddit.com/r/VLC/comments/hnle2o/dual_subtitles/ https://old.reddit.com/r/VLC/comments/hnle2o/dual_subtitles/ https://superuser.com/questions/1255487/how-to-get-vlc-to-display-both-subtitles-embedded-in-mkv-video https://superuser.com/questions/1255487/how-to-get-vlc-to-di...
presentation 1y ago
For Netflix and YouTube I actually use a language learning chrome extension called Migaku, that has this feature - but if there don’t exist subs, can also sometimes pull it off with a chrome extension for dual subs - forget what it is called but I can download SRT files and load them up alongside a stream. Both are not reliable and require significant fiddling.

PetitPrince 1y ago

Anecdotally, for a long time dual French and German subtitles was the standard in Swiss cinemas when movie was shown in original language. So your usecase is not that unusual !

hvb2 1y ago
Same in Belgium, top line was Dutch, bottom line was French

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