What you need to know before touching a video file(gist.github.com)
333 points by qbow883 | 202 comments
A GitHub Gist guide explaining common beginner mistakes and essential concepts for novice video editors and encoders working with video files.
#subtitles on Hacker News
6 stories tagged subtitles, newest first.
Crunchyroll is destroying its subtitles(daiz.moe)
331 points by Daiz | 109 comments
Blog post arguing that Crunchyroll has degraded the quality of its on-screen text subtitle translations since the Fall 2025 anime season.
Why did Crunchyroll's subtitles just get worse?(animebythenumbers.substack.com)
387 points by zdw | 276 comments
Substack article from Anime By The Numbers examining a change in how Crunchyroll releases new anime that has degraded subtitle quality after layoffs.
Abogen – Generate audiobooks from EPUBs, PDFs and text(github.com)
321 points by mzehrer | 78 comments
GitHub repository for Abogen, an open-source tool that generates audiobooks with synchronized captions from EPUBs, PDFs and text using text-to-speech.
Title drops in movies(titledrops.net)
470 points by gaws | 153 comments
An interactive data analysis by Dominikus Baur and Alice Thudt of title drops across 73,921 movies from the last 80 years.
Show HN: YouTube Full Text Search – Search all of a channel from the commandline(github.com)
480 points by notjoemartinez | 144 comments
GitHub repository for yt-fts, a Python command-line tool that scrapes a YouTube channel's subtitles into SQLite for full-text search with timestamped links.