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PlayPhrase: Site for Searching Cinema Phrases

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Re: PlayPhrase: Site for Searching Cinema Phrases

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Search bar doesn't work in Android webview. Placeholder is not placeholder, I had to delete it, pressing enter doesn't start search and they're is no button to start search. Also font is huge. You have reimplemented input field and complete broke it in the process.

Re: PlayPhrase: Site for Searching Cinema Phrases

#24

For those interested in playing around with something similar: it looks like a sort of large scale implementation of Sam Lavigne's Videogrep[1]. [1]: http://antiboredom.github.io/videogrep/

Came here to point videogrep out. It is a great tool!

I don't remember if this is out of the box for videogrep, but it is possible to generate "fine-grained" subtitle information using speech to text and some massaging. In other words, subtitles that match a specific word.

I worked on something similar to this using videogrep and "fine-grained" subtitle information using Seinfeld clips. My short experiment took as input a string and looked for the longest matching subtitle and created a clip out of longest matching subtitles of characters saying the contents of the input string. I couldn't figure out how to get diarization to work reliably back then, if anyone knows, please let me know!

Re: PlayPhrase: Site for Searching Cinema Phrases

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post #15

Ooo this is so cool [0]. I need to know the implementation details. How are the clips stored? Are they dynamically generated with ffmpeg or something or is every line of dialogue clipped out ready to serve? How many films and what are the storage costs? [0] https://www.playphrase.me/#/search?q=this+is+so+cool

And how did they even get their source material?

Re: PlayPhrase: Site for Searching Cinema Phrases

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Allows you to search for a specific phrase or word and you get video results from movies (with timestamp), where this phrase/word is being used. Has around 2M phrases and the first 5 results are free, afterwards you need to become a sponsor.

Are you affiliated? Others and I have questions about implementation...

Re: PlayPhrase: Site for Searching Cinema Phrases

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post #4

One of the Daily Show's greatest strengths was their ability to quickly compile relevant clips. I always wondered if they had a service like this. I assumed that they were scraping CC text themselves. Maybe they just had a phenomenal research dept.

The Daily Show, and I believe most similar shows, use a product called Snapstream: https://www.snapstream.com/entertainment

Crucially this is not a cloud product, I suspect for copyright reasons.

Re: PlayPhrase: Site for Searching Cinema Phrases

#28

Allows you to search for a specific phrase or word and you get video results from movies (with timestamp), where this phrase/word is being used. Has around 2M phrases and the first 5 results are free, afterwards you need to become a sponsor.

Are you affiliated? Others and I have questions about implementation...

Nope, no affiliation or connection at all. Just me being the average HN user posting something interesting I found :-) I have questions myself, especially how they haven't shut them down due to copyright issues.

Re: PlayPhrase: Site for Searching Cinema Phrases

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post #17

Nice implementation, I like how it continuously plays. Similar concept to my company https://getyarn.io , where you can search into movies and tv shows :)

I wonder how many clips they have compared to the 10 million+ in Yarn...

https://www.getyarn.io/yarn-clip/2d30e3f1-6bc1-4aa0-bdc4-6d5...

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