How to download closed caption videos?

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How to download closed caption videos?

Postby Kraut » Wed Apr 27, 2022 9:38 pm

Lithuanian TV offers videos with closed caption subtitles. I haven't found a means to download them with separate subtitles in order to convert these to SRT-files, translate them (Google and DeepL can do this) and then work with them off line.
Any ideas?

https://www.lrt.lt/mediateka/irasas/200 ... u-keliones

https://www.lrt.lt/mediateka/irasas/200 ... ilizacijos
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Re: How to download closed caption videos?

Postby Stefan » Wed Apr 27, 2022 11:40 pm

If you're using Chrome, hit F12 or right click and select "Inspect" to open Chrome DevTools. There you go to the network tab and reload the page. Write "txt" in the input field with the placeholder "Filter" or just scroll through until you find a request to a txt file.

https://www.lrt.lt/media/VIDEO/2021-11/LAI70163.txt
https://www.lrt.lt/media/VIDEO/2022-04/LAI70523.txt
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Re: How to download closed caption videos?

Postby Kraut » Thu Apr 28, 2022 12:36 pm

Thanks, Stefan!
It works, the translation is ok, the two texts are in sync, video and texts also.
This is what it looks like in SMPlayer (colour, position and size can be changed)
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Re: How to download closed caption videos?

Postby zenmonkey » Thu Apr 28, 2022 3:00 pm

Now you can put all that in Anki... :lol:
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Re: How to download closed caption videos?

Postby Kraut » Thu Apr 28, 2022 8:58 pm

Or even better in Language Reactor - which also offers "Anki" (I don't know what it looks like in Language Reactor, you have to register to get access).
Although Language Reactor overall is still deficient in Firefox it offers the import of videofiles in MP4 with SRT-subtitles and these functions
- translations of the SRT-file into the language of your choice (I think it's Google not DeepL translated)
- translations of single words
- example sentences of a word from the corpus of the subtitle file
- audio repetition of a subtitle line with a click
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