I have another problem, which is that my wife is Japanese and I’m American, and if we watch a French movie then I want the English subs and she wants the Japanese subs. Making that work with streaming services is very painful.

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PetitPrince 5 days ago | parent | next [-]

Anecdotally, for a long time dual French and German subtitles was the standard in Swiss cinemas when movie was shown in original language. So your usecase is not that unusual !

	▲	hvb2 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		Same in Belgium, top line was Dutch, bottom line was French

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wjholden 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I had never thought of this before. What is the solution? Can any video software show two subtitles at once?

	▲	schiffern 5 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		VLC, mpv, and SMPlayer all support dual subtitles, with varying amounts of fiddling. https://old.reddit.com/r/VLC/comments/hnle2o/dual_subtitles/ https://superuser.com/questions/1255487/how-to-get-vlc-to-di...
	▲	smacke 5 days ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		I developed a tool (https://github.com/smacke/ffsubsync) which can sync subtitles against each other (or even against an audio track), and this can be used in conjunction with other tools such as https://pypi.org/project/srt/ to combine multiple subtitle streams into a single stream. I've used this strategy to good effect to get both English and Chinese subtitles up at once.
	▲	presentation 5 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		For Netflix and YouTube I actually use a language learning chrome extension called Migaku, that has this feature - but if there don’t exist subs, can also sometimes pull it off with a chrome extension for dual subs - forget what it is called but I can download SRT files and load them up alongside a stream. Both are not reliable and require significant fiddling.

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