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I was going to say that I'd love to use all these neat Chromecast tricks but I can't because of its (native) poor support for external subtitles but then I got

by caio1982 13y ago

I was going to say that I'd love to use all these neat Chromecast tricks but I can't because of its (native) poor support for external subtitles but then I got really afraid of saying so as disagreements about popular techs in HN usually result in downvoting. Offtopic: is it just me who feel like that and often avoid commenting?

untog 13y ago
You didn't want to comment because you don't want to be downvoted? Yeah, I don't think that's rare. Although posting a comment saying that you decided not to comment because everyone would downvote you is likely a very good way of... getting downvotes.
- chinpokomon 13y ago
  And while we're completely derailed, is getting down voted such a big deal? Say what you want and how you think, but be prepared to support your position with something more then conjecture and posturing. If in spite of providing support for your well articulated and argued position, you receive down votes, hopefully someone has left a reply that will help you to understand why others disagree with you. Take it as a learning opportunity. You don't have to change your opinion, but use what you learn to help you write your next comment. Dissenting opinions on their own won't usually give you down votes, but unsupported inflammatory remarks will.
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vigneshv_psg 13y ago
> I'd love to use all these neat Chromecast tricks but I can't because of its (native) poor support for external subtitles author here. yes, i have been working on adding subtitle support to this web app as well (you paste two urls, one for the video and one for the srt file). chromecast supports WebVTT [1] and it's pretty straightforward to convert srt to WebVTT. Although, it requires using a custom receiver app. stay tuned. [1] https://developers.google.com/cast/docs/media https://developers.google.com/cast/docs/media
- caio1982 13y ago
  Dude, that's great, you'd be fixing a real issue that Chromecast has (in my opinion). I'll check it regularly to see how it goes, thanks for the effort :-)
kbenson 13y ago
If you are worried about downvotes, be more subjective. If you mention you had bad experiences with the feature, or whenever you used it it didn't meet your needs, or ask if anyone knows a way to work around the limitations you are seeing, you're pretty safe. If you come out with a definiteive statement such as "it has crappy subtitle support" you are going to have your comment assessed differently. You'll probably get more votes, up or down depending on how many people agree or disagree with you, but that's the nature of polarizing statements. It's not that different than speaking in person actually, except you don't have to pay attention to the reactions of others to see how your statements went over (in aggregate).
parterburn 13y ago
Plex.tv does a great job with subtitles already, and they just opened up the Chromecast support to all users for free.

untog 13y ago

You didn't want to comment because you don't want to be downvoted? Yeah, I don't think that's rare. Although posting a comment saying that you decided not to comment because everyone would downvote you is likely a very good way of... getting downvotes.

chinpokomon 13y ago
And while we're completely derailed, is getting down voted such a big deal? Say what you want and how you think, but be prepared to support your position with something more then conjecture and posturing. If in spite of providing support for your well articulated and argued position, you receive down votes, hopefully someone has left a reply that will help you to understand why others disagree with you. Take it as a learning opportunity. You don't have to change your opinion, but use what you learn to help you write your next comment. Dissenting opinions on their own won't usually give you down votes, but unsupported inflammatory remarks will.

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vigneshv_psg 13y ago

> I'd love to use all these neat Chromecast tricks but I can't because of its (native) poor support for external subtitles author here. yes, i have been working on adding subtitle support to this web app as well (you paste two urls, one for the video and one for the srt file). chromecast supports WebVTT [1] and it's pretty straightforward to convert srt to WebVTT. Although, it requires using a custom receiver app. stay tuned. [1] https://developers.google.com/cast/docs/media https://developers.google.com/cast/docs/media

caio1982 13y ago
Dude, that's great, you'd be fixing a real issue that Chromecast has (in my opinion). I'll check it regularly to see how it goes, thanks for the effort :-)

kbenson 13y ago

If you are worried about downvotes, be more subjective. If you mention you had bad experiences with the feature, or whenever you used it it didn't meet your needs, or ask if anyone knows a way to work around the limitations you are seeing, you're pretty safe. If you come out with a definiteive statement such as "it has crappy subtitle support" you are going to have your comment assessed differently. You'll probably get more votes, up or down depending on how many people agree or disagree with you, but that's the nature of polarizing statements. It's not that different than speaking in person actually, except you don't have to pay attention to the reactions of others to see how your statements went over (in aggregate).

parterburn 13y ago

Plex.tv does a great job with subtitles already, and they just opened up the Chromecast support to all users for free.