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Show HN: I made an extension to watch Netflix films with screenplays in sync
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Re: Show HN: I made an extension to watch Netflix films with screenplays in sync
#52Very interesting! Fun tidbit: for TV actors, regularly reading pilot scripts and then watching the produced pilot for comparison is a huge common educational technique. You get to imagine what kind of acting and directorial choices you'd make, and then see what was actually done. Often times you'll realize you had totally misinterpreted what a scene was even about. It's also fun to see how every script is filled with…
Fascinating! It can also be the other way around, where an actor miraculously interpreted an unactable script well. E.g. Joaquin Phoenix delivered "It vexes me. I am vexed." in Gladiator quite well.
I watched a video recently that touched on this subject when talking about the TV show House. If you read the script for a regular House episode, there's no conclusion to be had besides House being an insufferable, racist prick. Instead, Hugh Laurie delivers the obviously racist lines so sarcastically that it makes them work very well (which is obviously what the writers were going on).
Re: Show HN: I made an extension to watch Netflix films with screenplays in sync
#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
The syncing is done automatically, at least mostly. TL;DR: ScreenplaySubs fetches the subtitles from Netflix, parses the PDF-formatted screenplays into JSON, and syncs by calculating the sentence similarities between subtitle and screenplay dialogue. In particular, we use the Universal Sentence Encoder for deciding whether a subtitle matches with a screenplay dialogue. If a screenplay dialogue is similar enough with…
Please blog about the details! Are you following the W3C work on synchronized multimedia? https://github.com/w3c/sync-media-pub https://www.w3.org/community/sync-media-pub/
Will do! I am not aware of that, tell me more!
Re: Show HN: I made an extension to watch Netflix films with screenplays in sync
#54This is Chrome extension that is asking to read browser history. Why?
Re: Show HN: I made an extension to watch Netflix films with screenplays in sync
#55This is great! Also check out LanguageLearningWithNetflix [0] which lets you watch videos with two subs in different languages, displays the subs as HTML so select/copy/define will work (and it has a built-in dictionary too). It also allows you to quickly jump to the beginning of each sentence so you can hear it multiple times, which helps improve your listening skills. For me, it has been a fun way to improve my Ger…
> iOS for example, is technically perfectly capable of supporting this kind of extensibility, but the App Store model limits it to a few narrow and specific use-cases Injecting third-party code into a third-party app that has to deal with DRM sounds like a recipe for disaster.
Well don't even get me started on DRM :)
But this particular use-case would still play well with DRM as it's implemented today. Netflix on the browser still has DRM, but since the element is standard, it can still be hooked into and decorated.
Re: Show HN: I made an extension to watch Netflix films with screenplays in sync
#56Data source for GPT-4?
Re: Show HN: I made an extension to watch Netflix films with screenplays in sync
#57Very interesting! Fun tidbit: for TV actors, regularly reading pilot scripts and then watching the produced pilot for comparison is a huge common educational technique. You get to imagine what kind of acting and directorial choices you'd make, and then see what was actually done. Often times you'll realize you had totally misinterpreted what a scene was even about. It's also fun to see how every script is filled with…
Fascinating! It can also be the other way around, where an actor miraculously interpreted an unactable script well. E.g. Joaquin Phoenix delivered "It vexes me. I am vexed." in Gladiator quite well.
FYI, English "to vex" is actually from the Latin vēxāre, meaning "to disturb, agitate, or annoy." I find it believable that Commodus would say "Hoc me vexat. Tantum hoc me vexat."
Re: Show HN: I made an extension to watch Netflix films with screenplays in sync
#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
The syncing is done automatically, at least mostly. TL;DR: ScreenplaySubs fetches the subtitles from Netflix, parses the PDF-formatted screenplays into JSON, and syncs by calculating the sentence similarities between subtitle and screenplay dialogue. In particular, we use the Universal Sentence Encoder for deciding whether a subtitle matches with a screenplay dialogue. If a screenplay dialogue is similar enough with…
I'd definitely be interested to read more about the tech. I wonder if it can be used to time-sync audiobooks to their ebooks counterparts. This is my use-case: Kindle has a feature called "Audible Narration." You buy a Kindle book, and the Audible audio book, which allows you to play the audio book while it highlights the words on the Kindle book as you're listening. This effortless switching between audio and text e…
The task is called 'forced alignment', take a look at aeneas and other projects at https://www.readbeyond.it/ :) IIRC, Aeneas has some features for handling extra text and the beginning/end of the book, while abridgement etc. isn't handled.
Re: Show HN: I made an extension to watch Netflix films with screenplays in sync
#59I've seen plugins like this from time to time and I always wonder to what extent using them with a secured service (like Netflix etc) means that you've opened yourself up to them doing all sorts of things with your account. You need to login and once that's done the plugin code effectively acts as you doesn't it? I'm guessing there are Chrome/FF protections on the password field, but if the plugin can do anything on…
I believe when an extension requires matches permission for say ://netflix.com/, it asks for permission to load the content script to the browser tab that has that URL opened. Which means that even if the extension involves the slightest bit of modification on the UI, it still requires the same permission as one that involves the user's sensitive information. It seems this page suggests that the extension could also read usernames and password: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/permission-request-mess...
For what it's worth, we can confidently say that our extension does UI modifications without ever being involved with user sensitive info. Regardless, will definitely open source the extension. Hopefully this will win some user's trust. Stay tuned!
Re: Show HN: I made an extension to watch Netflix films with screenplays in sync
#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
Fascinating! It can also be the other way around, where an actor miraculously interpreted an unactable script well. E.g. Joaquin Phoenix delivered "It vexes me. I am vexed." in Gladiator quite well.
I watched a video recently that touched on this subject when talking about the TV show House. If you read the script for a regular House episode, there's no conclusion to be had besides House being an insufferable, racist prick. Instead, Hugh Laurie delivers the obviously racist lines so sarcastically that it makes them work very well (which is obviously what the writers were going on).
I've recently watched House and I found this more uncomfy than I did the first time.
House (the character) is often being plainly racist and sexist. The fact that he presents it as sarcasm is a vehicle for him, used to make his racism more difficult to challenge.