AshranPewter 3 Posted July 9, 2021 Share Posted July 9, 2021 Probably a small use case but dual subtitles are really useful for me. Is this something that could be added into the android app in an upcoming release? The situations it's useful in are: Two people with different native languages Learning a new language easier If I could select two languages it would be easiest as combining subtitle files might become much harder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rodainas 188 Posted July 9, 2021 Share Posted July 9, 2021 You want to be able to display two subtitles files at the same time right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebr 14947 Posted July 9, 2021 Share Posted July 9, 2021 Hi. Is there any media player that does this? How would you place them? You could end up covering the entire screen with subtitles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlo 4330 Posted July 9, 2021 Share Posted July 9, 2021 That was my thought as well. I don't know of any player that does this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrostByte 5055 Posted July 9, 2021 Share Posted July 9, 2021 I've seen single file subtitles that have 2 languages with one at the top and one at the bottom. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebr 14947 Posted July 9, 2021 Share Posted July 9, 2021 39 minutes ago, FrostByte said: I've seen single file subtitles that have 2 languages with one at the top and one at the bottom. That would be the proper way to accomplish this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlo 4330 Posted July 9, 2021 Share Posted July 9, 2021 Besides that way the only way I can think of doing this would be to burn one sub in the video then use the other to overlay it during playback which would give you both. Would just need to be careful to burn one in at the top. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AshranPewter 3 Posted July 11, 2021 Author Share Posted July 11, 2021 Sorry late reply a bit busy lately. Yes, IINA (Mac OS only?) and VLC (4 beta) both do it. Though they are of course desktop and don't have to deal with streaming in the backend which might not support multiple subtitles at the moment. You can give lots of options. One of my favorite is having them just right on top of each other at the bottom. If you adjust the size usually they can fit easily. Attached file shows it in action, but on a big tv it's not as bad and if you could adjust the size it would be just fine. It seems like it would be annoying but for many shows it's much nicer especially when you're in a multi-language house. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flintt 2 Posted May 7, 2022 Share Posted May 7, 2022 On 7/9/2021 at 9:07 PM, ebr said: Hi. Is there any media player that does this? How would you place them? You could end up covering the entire screen with subtitles. On 7/9/2021 at 9:59 PM, cayars said: That was my thought as well. I don't know of any player that does this. potplayer can do this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlo 4330 Posted May 7, 2022 Share Posted May 7, 2022 That's interesting. I'm not sure I've ever tried potplayer so I'll have to check it out. Thinking about it more, I could see something like this being really helpful to multi-language households. My next door neighbors for example are from Mexico but their kids were born and raised in the US. A foreign film for them watched as a family would probably be easier for all if both Spanish and English subs were used. Is something like that the general use use case? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thepilot 0 Posted May 10, 2022 Share Posted May 10, 2022 My wife is chinese, I'm french, and we watch movies in VO (whatever it is, most of the time english). For the moment we put the subtitles in english (useful for both of us), but if there was a option to put them both in chinese and english at the same time, we would definitively do that! Also, in Brussels, in cinema, movies are projected in VO, with neederland/french subtitles, so it's pretty common for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SinoLing 0 Posted February 4, 2023 Share Posted February 4, 2023 If this feature is added, it may help many people, such as multi-language households or some friends from abroad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AshranPewter 3 Posted April 16 Author Share Posted April 16 On 5/10/2022 at 8:28 PM, thepilot said: My wife is chinese, I'm french, and we watch movies in VO (whatever it is, most of the time english). For the moment we put the subtitles in english (useful for both of us), but if there was a option to put them both in chinese and english at the same time, we would definitively do that! Also, in Brussels, in cinema, movies are projected in VO, with neederland/french subtitles, so it's pretty common for me. @thepilotbit old of a post, considering mine. But, you can use https://github.com/ChineseSubFinder/ChineseSubFinder for your usecase. It's what I use. Unfortunately I'm having a bit of an issue here with time offsets sometimes with the ass files that are downloaded doesn't work on android TV. Which I'm trying to get fixed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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