Video player with closed captions

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Looking for video player app with closed captions function that will run on Linux Mint. Anyone?

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Try https://www.videolan.org/  VLC video player

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Slowpoke47

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I have VLC.  VLC does not support closed captions.

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Although I have not personally used this player, it comes highly recommended, open source, and is suppose to add primary and secondary subtitles. It is donation ware and it is supposed to support many Linux distributions (I hope that includes Mint).
Anyway, have a look:

Haruna Video Player

HTH, Dana:))

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Slowpoke47

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Subtitles and closed captions are not the same function.

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Does this help?

https://www.techwalla.com/articles/how-to-get-closed-captioning-on-a-vlc

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Slowpoke47

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Almost.  Step #9 does not match the menu I’m seeing.  But I think not all vids are configured with cc capability.  Might be able to test with a vid that I know is so configured.  Tomorrow’s project- report to follow.

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DrBonzo

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Made another attempt- In step #9, menu under “Video” does not match tutorial:

Click the “Video” menu, hover the cursor over “Subtitles Track” in the menu and click “Teletext” in the list.

 

The video I used is in fact configured for cc- it’s a download from Invidious, at one point I saw cc’s on the vid on that site, there is now chatter there about “what happened to the cc.”

Looks like the techwalla tutorial is for Windows systems- see references to the sequence “start>all programs>videoLAN to open VLC.

VLC runs on this Mint system, but apparently cc’s are not available.  Perhaps someone here can name another app that shows cc’s.

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Drcard:)) wrote:

Although I have not personally used this player, it comes highly recommended, open source, and is suppose to add primary and secondary subtitles. It is donation ware and it is supposed to support many Linux distributions (I hope that includes Mint). Anyway, have a look:

Just looked at this- quite an ordeal to get connected with KDE, but succeeded and posted the closed caption question there.  Waiting for feedback…

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Doesn’t Invidious have a ‘CC’ button you can click to show closed captions? On YouTube (which I know you don’t like) just hover the cursor over the bottom of the video window and some options will show up, the ‘CC’ button being one of them. Works when viewing a video with FF, Opera, etc.

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Slowpoke47

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CC is not typical for video player. CC is either one of two:

1. embedded into the video  (always showing)
2. a separate text track (has option to turn off or on

VLC is able to show CC but you need to find the text track that goes with the video. But if video and text track to no match than it will not line up. (IE video you have start at 0 min and goes for 45min) but the text track was for another video that goes from 0 min and goes for 60 min).

Most CC are create by people. It cost time and money to create that. May be if AI gets better than CC will be generated by them.

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DrBonzo wrote:

Doesn’t Invidious have a ‘CC’ button you can click to show closed captions?

Yes it does.  Most recently it has some sort of glitch and doesn’t always work.

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DrBonzo

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