A TV screen that displays the cone logo of VLC media player, followed by the text VLC AI Subtitles. The TV is paused at one frame in a scene, with subtitles displayed below the video. VLC media player is among the surprise entrants at CES 2025, and the company is demoing a feature that automatically generates subtitles for you. When I see companies launching new AI features, I’m usually skeptical because it has become an overused buzzword—but in this case, it does seem useful. VideoLAN, the parent organization of VLC media player, says it uses open-source AI models to introduce automatic subtitling to its media player. There are two layers to this: The first is generating subtitles itself, and the second one is translation. In the CES demo, VLC […]
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