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Re: Language Learning with Netflix extension

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Post by StellarTabi »

mhdhn wrote: post #128
sbr464 wrote: post #84

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’ve traveled around the world and have seen how insane the differences are with Netflix experiences. It’s interesting though, you can almost see how they struggle with licensing issues mainly, while from a consumer’s perspective it seems like issues with their competency or offering. You get lucky sometimes, like catching Better Call Saul 2 weeks earlier in Malaysia randomly, than the US release.

Yeah but it's Netflix, the company that plays audio previews at you with no way to disable the misfeature, so they could just be fuckups

I just mute until I've found what I want to watch :(

Re: Language Learning with Netflix extension

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Post by ramblerman »

pen2l wrote: post #96

An observation: in netflix, when you choose a foreign lang for the audio track as well as subtitles... they don't match. By this I mean, let's saying you're watching Orange is the New black... and choose French audio and French subtitles. You would expect the subtitles to be correspond with what you're hearing.... they don't!! Kind of absurd and annoying. This is true across all shows it turns out.

This can be an advantage when your level is just a bit higher.

Since you hear the words and see a similar way of saying it at the same time. This (in my experience) is usually enough context to parse the audio.

The net result is then that your brain gained 2 pieces of input at rate of 1.

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Post by AnssiH »

skrebbel wrote: post #44
nitrogen wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not sure, but maybe the subtitle tracks have different licensing?

It's available, you just need to jump through undocumented hoops to get it. I know not to underrate the media industry on this stuff, but I doubt they have licensing that says "make available but only through shitty UX".

> you just need to jump through undocumented hoops to get it

The hoops are documented: https://help.netflix.com/en/node/13245 ("Change your subtitle language" section)

It says "Due to the large number of languages available, Netflix only displays the 5-7 languages most relevant to you while streaming." and then proceeds to tell the steps to change profile language to get other languages.

Re: Language Learning with Netflix extension

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Post by senorsmile »

davidzweig wrote: post #83

Hi. Creator here. If someone from Netflix is reading this, we'd like to be in contact (email in profile). Hell, here's my 15 minutes. I'd be interested in a job with electronics/software/mech engineering (ideally all three) in the US/EU/Australia (I can work in these countries). Some info about me on this post from earlier in the year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18809704

Your extension is great. Thank you! I've used it for a while. It makes something that I used to do, i.e. watching foreign language content on Netflix to advance a language, much easier. I only wish something this amazing were available for more services (or maybe Netflix needs to just license every show and movie ever made?!?!?).

Re: Language Learning with Netflix extension

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Post by mikesteeledev »

aplaice wrote: post #101
z_open wrote: post #42

This is nice, but all I really want is the ability to nicely see both English and German subtitles simultaneously. This is overkill for me and requires me to use chrome. Is anyone aware of a better solution for me?

I second the mpv-based solution, as suggested by st1ck. If you prefer vlc, it now (as of the beta 4.0.0)[0] also supports dual/secondary subtitles. Making it work seems a bit fiddly: first you need to turn them on (under Tools > Preferences > Subtitles/OSD > Dual Subtitles (at the very bottom) > Align — change to anything but unset, and possibly also adjust offset). Then, when playing a video, to select them for that…

Thanks for the shoutout! :) - mike
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