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Finally? I think VLC demo'd this a while ago at some conference where they had a table, if I remember correctly.

VLC and ffmpeg are unrelated projects

I'm not very familiar with them, but I always assumed that there is a lot of overlap between the maintainers of both projects.

Well, they are just unrelated. VLC has a plugin to access ffmpeg codecs via libav*, that's about it.

They are not completly unrelated. There is significant overlap. FFMPEG also uses libs from VLC.

I've been waiting a while now for automatic translated subtitles in vlc. I thought it would be here by now. I'm probably underestimating the difficulty but I'm surprised some video player hasn't done it by now. (as far as I know).

A lot of subtitles from commercial media use a subtitle format that's essentially a bitmap that the video player overlays on top of the video. There are tools to decode this using OCR, but it's not something I'd enable by default.

For text/srt subtitles, translation would probably be easier. There's a plugin for that already if you're okay with online translation services: https://github.com/nopium/vlc-trans-lua

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