adityausathe / vlc-subdics

VLC Extension to lookup subtitle-words in an English-dictionary. Helpful for someone who is a non-native English-speaker.

VLC SubDics

❌ Not Working

⚠️ Historical Project

Due to changes in VLC API, this plugin no longer works.

Functionality

• The intention behind this idea is to help non-native English speakers lookup meanings of difficult words in the movie. This uses subtitle information to do so.
• When user pauses a video, the plugin filters out trivial words from the current subtitle-line and displays the meanings of remaining non-trivial words.
• Once user plays the video again, the plugin hides the popup.

Implementation

• The plugin listens to pause/play events.
• The loaded subtitle file is used to find out the relevant words. Then the words will be searched in an in-memory dictionary and results are displayed.
• This plugin makes use of a XML-based lightweight word-dictionary and a third-party xml-parsing library.

Dependencies

• Works with VLC players running on Windows and Linux environments.
• Lacks autoconfig to detect Operating System. Need to update a OS-name flag manually in the source-code.