Suspended from Google Play for listing supported subtitle formats

Post by grishka » Tue, Jan 26, 2021, 8:15 AM UTC

int_19h wrote: post #264

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> they would have to do literal translation based on phonetics. That seems pretty unlikely to have happened here; I don't know the Russian word in question, but the Chinese "hui" rhymes with English "clay". (It also rhymes with the more sensibly spelled Chinese "wei"; the 'e' is only omitted when the syllable begins with a consonant. Compare "feng shui".) I'd be surprised if that were a possible reading of any Russia…

A native Russian speaker who is familiar with how Russian is usually transliterated, but unfamiliar with Chinese, would read it very similar to the Russian word in question ("khoo-y"). As to why the filter was applied to Latin characters - I'm not sure, but I'm assuming that's to prevent people from using translit to sneak in profanities. Of course, this ends up being a pointless game of whack-a-mole - there's so man…

Post by saargrin » Tue, Jan 26, 2021, 8:56 AM UTC

fakedang wrote: post #316

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A competitor would have to get most/all of the phone manufacturers to all at once drop Google Play and use their ecosystem instead, otherwise no one would bother publishing apps for it. There's no way to ramp up a competitor because users won't tolerate a subpar app selection. See Amazon's Fire Phone launch for what happens when one manufacturer tries to start their own ecosystem.

It's actually very easily possible. Apart from Samsung, the largest phone manufacturers are all Chinese, and currently under sanction by the US government, with more soon on the way. Out of the Chinese bunch, the majority are Huawei. Huawei has been forced to move into a non-Playstore Android OS. I use a burner Huawei for non-essential Android stuff. Every time I click the "Rate App" button on apps, it redirects me t…

Post by int_19h » Tue, Jan 26, 2021, 9:08 AM UTC

grishka wrote: post #321

int_19h wrote: post #264

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A native Russian speaker who is familiar with how Russian is usually transliterated, but unfamiliar with Chinese, would read it very similar to the Russian word in question ("khoo-y"). As to why the filter was applied to Latin characters - I'm not sure, but I'm assuming that's to prevent people from using translit to sneak in profanities. Of course, this ends up being a pointless game of whack-a-mole - there's so man…

As another native Russian speaker, "i" isn't the most common transliteration for "й", and that's what bothers me here. "Hui" would be a plural, with an "и". Й is usually written as "y" or "j". Except when you're getting an international passport, then there's a good chance your name will end with "ii" because the federal migration service hates you.

Post by kuschku » Tue, Jan 26, 2021, 10:24 AM UTC

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Actually most modern systems support image embedding, animations, styling, and positioning with TTML. It’s an official spec, supported by every television, Netflix, Chromecast, etc. It’s also a format no fansubber ever heard of.

TTML is also supported by pretty much every piece of m pptultimedia equipment out there including chromecast , which is the exact opposite of ASS which is supported by basically nothing. The fansubbing community is so annoying with its insistence on terrible formats. The community has somehow standardized on 10bit hevc with ASS subtitles. That makes releases so hard to play.

Post by perryizgr8 » Tue, Jan 26, 2021, 11:41 AM UTC

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Galaxy store is alive and well on Samsung phones.

But they aren't taking a hard stance like Huawei. Like redirecting to their store.