February 7, 2013
With the goal of making every web video accessible to the world, Amara.org launched an app that takes help of crowdsourcing to subtitle any YouTube video. The crowdsourcing platform is being dubbed a ‘Wikipedia for subtitles’, and just like the well-known encyclopedia, it will call on volunteers to caption and translate web videos from around the world.
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May 7, 2012
The wait for subtitle downloads has become a far too common annoyance. There are apps galore that will help facilitating this simple task; on Mac OS X as well as Windows. Queue SolEol, is an application that can be set up in such a way that downloading subtitles takes but a meager few seconds.
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October 5, 2011
Quickly rename your video files, find subtitles and so much more. If you use your computer to watch TV shows, or any kind of video, you should really check out FileBot. For TV episodes in particular, poorly named files may not be recognized by your media center of choice. FileBot is fast, stable and cross platform. Even better is that it does more than just rename files.
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July 25, 2011
It's been about three years since YouTube introduced improved automatic captions for some of the videos; in a year they became more common and last year they were enabled for all English-language videos. By default, captions are disabled in an embedded video. This tutorial shows you how to force them in an embedded YouTube video.
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July 7, 2011
There are too many video formats out there that you don't need to be an avid video lover to need a dedicated video encoder. If you are still looking for a good video converter, you might want to try TEncoder. This is an open source multi-threaded video encoders that would also help you hard code subtitles into the converted movies.
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December 20, 2010
It’s a rather annoying moment when you realise that film, episode or documentary you downloaded (completely legally, of course) doesn’t come with the necessary subtitles. For those who are hard of hearing or obsessed with world cinema, subtitles are a necessity. Step in OpenSubtitles.org, a vast database of subtitles that we’ve happened to mention previously. [...]
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December 2, 2010
Quickly convert any video file or DVD to play on your iPhone, Playstation or Android device. Arista makes doing this and more dead simple on any Linux computer, without the need for knowledge of cryptic concepts such as codecs or bitrates. We’ve covered applications to convert video and audio files in Linux before, but none [...]
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November 8, 2010
Avidemux is an open-source video editor that satisfies your simple editing needs, such as cutting and encoding, and is available for Windows, Mac, Linux and BSD. You can also use this tool to compress videos using VirtualDub (which you can also do in Windows Movie Maker, but the video will most likely end up with [...]
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September 24, 2010
Audiovisual entertainment, both music and video, show an obvious migration from the living room to the computer room. An ever growing number of people download and watch movies and TV series on their computer, overlaid with community-prepped subtitles. Sadly, these subtitle releases (have to) differ as much as their video release counterparts. If the encoder [...]
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August 23, 2010
YouTube has been pushing upgrades to the site in slow doses (in the form of a nifty, basic editor, for example). Now you can even request auto-captioning of your Youtube videos to reach a larger audience (anyone that speaks a different language, wants to learn English or experiences some kind of hearing impairment). It’s actually [...]
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March 28, 2010
If you ever tried, you’ll know it’s not too easy to watch a subtitled movie on your PlayStation 3. For starters, the PlayStation fails to recognize most video files with embedded subtitle streams. Installing a subtitle ‘interpreter’, like we’re able to on a regular computer, holds no avail either. Drop an AVI and SRT subtitle [...]
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February 26, 2010
We’ve been cutting into the subtitle topic again lately. Last week, we wrote about The 3 Best Subtitle Sites, in sequel to our How To Add Subtitles To A Movie or TV Series article. I don’t care much to admit it, but I still need my English subtitles to keep up with some movies. What doesn’t [...]
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February 16, 2010
Watching foreign films is hard enough without anyone breaking out into a dialect or using technical slang. If you want to understand what’s being said, you either have to turn up your speakers (your neighbors won’t like that), or find yourself some decent subtitles. With videos on your computer, you can add subtitles yourself, even [...]
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December 17, 2009
If you love watching movies and are willing to open your horizons a little bit, you should probably be aware that there are lives outside of Hollywood. Good movies come from all parts of the world. But knowing is one thing and finding is another. Due to the concepts that we call marketing and profit, [...]
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November 22, 2009
There are some movies where actions speak louder than words. Then there are some movies where words are all that matter. Most of us have pretty good ears, but even then subtitles help us understand some language nuances better. Clint Eastwood’s drawling sarcasm is sometimes hard to catch in those classic westerns. And if you [...]
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