The open-source video player VLC, which was created by the nonprofit VideoLAN and has been downloaded over 6 billion times, has hinted at an AI-powered subtitle system.
VideoLAN showed off the new feature at CES. It uses open-source AI models that run directly on users’ devices instead of the internet or cloud services to create real-time subtitles for any video. These subtitles can then be translated into many languages.
The company didn’t say when it was going to add the tool.
The first people to use VideoLAN were students at Ecole Centrale Paris in 1996, who wanted to stream movies across campus. Many open-source projects have had a hard time staying alive on funding alone, but VLC has stayed free and doesn’t have any ads, even as it has grown to work on more operating systems. The video player keeps running even though it doesn’t have any ads, data collection, or other ways to make money.
Even though there are a lot of streaming services out there, VideoLAN president Jean-Baptiste Kempf wrote on LinkedIn that the number of people who use VLC is actually going up.
VLC automatically creates and translates subtitles using local and open source AI models that run on your computer, even when you’re not online. It supports many languages!
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You can see the demo at our #CES2025 booth in Eureka Park.
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