Also check out LanguageLearningWithNetflix [0] which lets you watch videos with two subs in different languages, displays the subs as HTML so select/copy/define will work (and it has a built-in dictionary too). It also allows you to quickly jump to the beginning of each sentence so you can hear it multiple times, which helps improve your listening skills. For me, it has been a fun way to improve my German.
On a side-note, please notice how none of these great features are available to mobile users. iOS for example, is technically perfectly capable of supporting this kind of extensibility, but the App Store model limits it to a few narrow and specific use-cases.
> iOS for example, is technically perfectly capable of supporting this kind of extensibility, but the App Store model limits it to a few narrow and specific use-cases
Injecting third-party code into a third-party app that has to deal with DRM sounds like a recipe for disaster.
But this particular use-case would still play well with DRM as it's implemented today. Netflix on the browser still has DRM, but since the <video> element is standard, it can still be hooked into and decorated.
Sure... but "technically perfectly capable of supporting this kind of extensibility" is not true in my opinion, you'd need quite a few changes to allow this to happen safely. Apple doesn't even want apps to be sideloaded, so that's a stretch :)
App Store is not really the best environment for niche apps, I suppose. What about Android? I'd presume F-Droid could host something like this even if the Play Market doesn't?
LLN is good but seems to favor anti-features like disabling text selection on subtitles (except in the side pane) in order to push their in-house paid-for features.
Regarding your comment about extensibility, this applies to mostly every software platform other than the web, unfortunately. And even there, it feels like a happy accident. There's much work to be done in this area.
Text selection is a fiddly CSS issue that Ognjen didn't get around to fixing yet. There's only two paid features (saving words and machine translation.) About 3500 paying users at $3.50/mo after taxes and fees (from 800k total users), but before paying for servers/APIs, if you are curious. Free users are welcome.
[ Dear Netflix, let's be friends. There's a lot of work to do still, and we can go further, faster, with some small helps. Can we get a test account? Regards, David. languagelearningextension@gmail.com ]
Also check out LanguageLearningWithNetflix [0] which lets you watch videos with two subs in different languages, displays the subs as HTML so select/copy/define will work (and it has a built-in dictionary too). It also allows you to quickly jump to the beginning of each sentence so you can hear it multiple times, which helps improve your listening skills. For me, it has been a fun way to improve my German.
On a side-note, please notice how none of these great features are available to mobile users. iOS for example, is technically perfectly capable of supporting this kind of extensibility, but the App Store model limits it to a few narrow and specific use-cases.
[0] https://languagelearningwithnetflix.com