AshranPewter 6 Posted July 9, 2021 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. 1
rodainas 191 Posted July 9, 2021 Posted July 9, 2021 You want to be able to display two subtitles files at the same time right?
ebr 16169 Posted July 9, 2021 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.
Carlo 4560 Posted July 9, 2021 Posted July 9, 2021 That was my thought as well. I don't know of any player that does this.
FrostByte 5392 Posted July 9, 2021 Posted July 9, 2021 I've seen single file subtitles that have 2 languages with one at the top and one at the bottom.
ebr 16169 Posted July 9, 2021 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.
Carlo 4560 Posted July 9, 2021 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.
AshranPewter 6 Posted July 11, 2021 Author 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
flintt 2 Posted May 7, 2022 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
Carlo 4560 Posted May 7, 2022 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
thepilot 1 Posted May 10, 2022 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.
SinoLing 0 Posted February 4, 2023 Posted February 4, 2023 If this feature is added, it may help many people, such as multi-language households or some friends from abroad
AshranPewter 6 Posted April 16, 2024 Author Posted April 16, 2024 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.
Yinghai7508 2 Posted December 17, 2024 Posted December 17, 2024 This could be a very helpful feature for English learners to display both English and native language subtitles. 1 1
KobayashiM 27 Posted January 16 Posted January 16 (edited) I would 100% use this feature. Multilingual households are more common every day and the fluency of individuals varies widely. I think it could be a unique selling point. No other media management app advertises this to my knowledge so it could be a tipping point feature to choose Emby over others. As for placement, there should be options for placement along with click-to-drag and a bit of intelligent spacing when placed close together. Edited January 16 by KobayashiM 1
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