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by Daiz 22d ago
Having your own font is nice and all, but I wish Nebula would spend at least as much time on their subtitle rendering as they've spent on this marketing site... The subtitle rendering on Nebula is worse than what Youtube offers, and Yo
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by Daiz 6mo ago
I would also be interested in this. Subtitle presentation is something where browsers are still generally very bad at out of the box, so having good subtitle rendering support built directly into the library would make a lot of sense to me.
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by Daiz 9mo ago
Been using (and occasionally contributing to) Sharp for quite a while, both professionally and personally. Great library to have at hand when you need to deal with images.
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by Daiz 11mo ago
I made some revisions to the start of the article in order to make things more clear to the layman unfamiliar with anime and subtitling. Hopefully that clears things up!
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by Daiz 11mo ago
The key to good endnotes is to make them a nice bonus for those interested rather than required reading for everyone. Basically, make the main text work on its own, then get into the weeds of translation details separately. It's the be
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by Daiz 11mo ago
Well... the very first paragraph of the article does say with highlighting how "the presentation quality for translations of on-screen text has taken a total nosedive". And then it shows visual examples of the new bad quality and
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by Daiz 11mo ago
Good catch, thanks - I literally built the site alongside the article, so there's still some rough edges here and there.
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by Daiz 11mo ago
Unfortunately, as the link describes, Netflix only makes this available for a very limited set of languages, while everyone else is stuck with the extremely limited text-based standards. Frankly, those text-based subtitle standards are quit
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by Daiz 11mo ago
To be more specific, basically all online streaming today is based around the concept of segmented video (where the video is already split into regular X-second chunks). If you only hardsubbed the typesetting while keeping the dialogue soft
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by Daiz 11mo ago
> CR could have used the ASS subs on their website and given the less-dynamic sub files to their vendors. This is exactly what CR was doing for the past couple years, though you can't just automatically convert a fancy ASS file with
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by Daiz 11mo ago
This kind of softsubbing is what Crunchyroll primarily does, but it has hardsubbed encodes for devices that cannot do softsubbed rendering of the ASS subtitles that Crunchyroll uses. I go over some ways in how they could do away with these
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by Daiz 11mo ago
Both services explicitly disallow this by default in their delivery specifications, unfortunately. Netflix: https://partnerhelp.netflixstudios.com/hc/en-us/articles/215... > Netflix requires a non-subtitle
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by Daiz 11mo ago
Quality typesetting is just as important for dubs as it is for subs, actually! All that on-screen text will be there regardless of which audio track you are using.
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by Daiz 11mo ago
See for yourself: https://partnerhelp.netflixstudios.com/hc/en-us/articles/215... > 4. Line Treatment > 2 lines maximum
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by Daiz 11mo ago
Crunchyroll is currently using a subtitle rendering stack that is highly unique in the media industry, being based on the Advanced SubStation Alpha (ASS) subtitle format. It seems that the current executives would like to replace this uniqu
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by Daiz 11mo ago
Lack of closed captions and dubtitles are definitely very real issues as well, though this article is solely focused on subtitles.
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by Daiz 11mo ago
I did find instances of them actively deleting old subtitles and replacing them with lower quality ones in the back catalog, yes. Which seems indicative of Crunchyroll wanting to eventually get rid of good subtitles altogether.
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by Daiz 11mo ago
The linked article here goes over all of that in great detail!
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by Daiz 11mo ago
The cyan is basically just bold, but also a highlighter. I was using just plain bold initially but started experimenting with it and landed on this. Pairs quite nicely with the pink links, IMO.
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by Daiz 11mo ago
This is the result of a ton of research into Crunchyroll's recent subtitle changes that have tanked the service's first-party presentation quality to an all-time low. The article ended up being quite long, so I highly appreciate a
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Crunchyroll is destroying its subtitles(daiz.moe)
461 points by Daiz 11mo ago|163 comments
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by Daiz 1y ago
If you're going to do script-based video processing in Python, I would highly recommend just going straight for Vapoursynth[1] instead. It's built for the purpose from the ground up, is actively maintained with a decent commmunity
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by Daiz 1y ago
Lossless compression means the pixels of the output image are 100% identical to that of the output image. This site is clearly not doing that, and should thus not be called "lossless compression". The industry term for lossy compr
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by Daiz 2y ago
As someone who's done made use of most of the techniques listed in these posts, some comments... First of all, it's nice to see them receive attention outside the fansubbing scene! Anime has long made use of on-screen text in ways
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by Daiz 2y ago
As someone who has built custom EPUB authoring scripts in Node.js for work and also quite likes the EPUB spec: cool! I expect I'll still keep using said scripts for work, but I have some side project ideas which would involve actually
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by Daiz 2y ago
Extremely welcome legislation, especially since it has an exception for "permanent download that can be accessed offline", ie. DRM-free downloads. It's about time someone actually calls out Big Media on their deceptive practi
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by Daiz 4y ago
I've yet to meet a single developer who likes what Apple did with 100vh. And it's why all my projects to date that want to use viewport height in CSS have ended up adding a JS snippet that sets a --vh CSS variable to window.innerH
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by Daiz 4y ago
Gotta say, really disappointed with the fact that instead of Safari making 100vh actually mean 100% of viewport height like it's supposed to, they instead present us with all these new viewport units, all to fix a problem that was caus
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by Daiz 4y ago
I did see the beta calendar. It's a start for sure, but most back catalog titles still have zero information in terms of when to expect new chapters for them, so there is definitely still work to be done in that regard. And on the cale
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by Daiz 4y ago
I've done a couple impressions threads since your initial launch last year[1][2], and it's nice to see that there's been some improvements in regards to matters brought up in them, though there's definitely still room fo

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