The video player is testing a new AI tool to create subtitles in over 100 languages.

The popular open-source VLC video player was demonstrated on the floor of CES 2025 with automatic AI subtitling and translation, generated locally and offline in real time. Parent organization VideoLAN shared a video on Tuesday in which president Jean-Baptiste Kempf shows off the new feature, which uses open-source AI models to generate subtitles for videos in several languages.

    • jonjuan@programming.devEnglish
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      1 hour ago

      Exact opposite sentiment from the last post about this. Personally, I think it’s great, but I saw so many people saying they would never use VLC again when this was first announced.