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Any tips for finding subtitles TV shows and movies? There´s databases out there, but they don't seem to have what I'm looking for.

Transcription is obviously better than subtitles. AI is a possibility to transcribe; I've experimented with local models and had poor results. Professional AI services are good, but I am extremely broke.

For various reasons, I prefer to d/l my stuff and watch it on jellyfin. I know if I were streaming my life would be easier in some ways.

Current target is Lastman (2016) in French.

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[-] Confused_Emus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 5 days ago

I use Bazarr in my *arr stack for subtitles. If the file I download doesn’t come with its own embedded subtitles, Bazarr will pull them based on the preferences I’ve set.

[-] Witchfire@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

Good French dubs/subs are really fucking hard to get for some fucking reason. Even on the streaming services, including Crave (Canadian), French language options are a mess.

[-] Chl0r0f0rm_Angel@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Podnapisi.net or Opensubtitles.com

If you're a media player classic user, it has a plugin built in to fetch them from either of those. You just have to turn the option on. Alternatively, here is the fmhy section for subtitle tools and libraries which I used to find a couple rarer stuff

Fmhy.pages.Dev/video#subtitle-tools

[-] 0ndead@infosec.pub 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

If you can find subtitles in a language other than the language you want, convert to srt, then copy them into a google doc, then use the translate option under tools to translate to the language you need, then copy to a new srt file.

[-] 0ndead@infosec.pub 2 points 5 days ago

I find that this does not work well going from Chinese to English

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