Downloaded the last seven episodes of #ALeagueOfNobleman to watch while flying home—this involved installing Python 3 on my macbook air and then monkey-patching youtube-dl to make it work on 3.11, so you see my dedication!
Guess who forgot to download and embed the subtitles. Guess whose laptop didn’t have ffmpeg installed. Guess who’s been trying to upgrade Homebrew on airport wifi for the last half hour. 🤡
@villainousfriend your player can't play the subtitles in a separate file? VLC can do this, and I think it does it automatically if the filename is the same as the video file with just the extension changed.
@Betty@villainousfriend yeah, any kind of subtitle file works well this way! But I feel you, I also tried to update brew at the airport the other day and it was a fucking disaster.
@narie@Betty Thank you both, I didn’t realise that would work! Going to leave updating and installing whatever else Homebrew thinks it need till I’m safely at home. :)
@villainousfriend@Betty yeah the real danger here is when brew decides you might also want to update this extensive list of packages all of which require compilation from source. And you just wanted to watch the pretty TV show.
@narie@Betty Final update: the files were playing in Quick Time Player, which it turns out can’t play external .vtt files, but past!me had already installed VLC and now we’re good to go!
You can probably tell this isn’t the computer I ever do anything technical on. 😅 Generally, it’s just for Youtube and word-processing.
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