My Question Briefly
I am looking for the ability to select text (e.g. word, or group of words) from a subtitle sentence that's shown on a video — within VLC Player interface — in order to copy/reuse text snippets without the need of retyping them.
I've subtitles stored within external files (e.g. .srt), so I believe it's possible to make subtitle text selectable on the VLC Player's interface. The OCR solution would require additional manual steps and won't be accurate all the time, also it's unneeded processing while we already have the content of subtitles written within the .srt files.
Why it's important to make VLC subtitles text selectable?
On Lynda courses video player — and similar in-browser players — I can select text within subtitles simply on the video without digging elsewhere.
It's so powerful to make subtitles text selectable because of the potentials this provides.
- If the subtitles are selectable, I can select the word I want to translate and hit the shortcut key for GoldenDict — or any-alike program — to popup the translation
- I can also copy to search a word on Google.
This would save a lot of time specially when we're translating, taking-notes, or searching a lot what mentioned within the subtitles.
Personal Info
- VLC Player version I'm using: VLC v2.2.4
- OS: Windows 10