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dealing with hard subs - kraemder - 2015-03-07
I'm curious what others do when they have to watch stuff with hard subs. I just found this option in this MPlayerX video viewing program on Mac that lets me reverse the image so it's backwards and I can't read the English subs. Well I could probably get used to reading reverse images but I intentional am not even trying to at all. This only works on this app and there's times on my iPhone for example watching Crunchyroll where I can't turn them off. I mostly just read them then and try to make an effort to listen to the Japanese of course. I do listen to it but if you have a ready translation in front of you, you don't have to work as hard to pick stuff out. It's not the same.
dealing with hard subs - gaiaslastlaugh - 2015-03-08
I find a version without hardsubs, or I just don't watch it. There's so much content out there that I don't spend time fretting about it.
dealing with hard subs - EratiK - 2015-03-08
I usually zoom the very bottom part of the image, which when you aim right is like putting the subs under a blurry cover. Not very aesthetic but efficient.
dealing with hard subs - kraemder - 2015-04-05
Just found out that VLC player has a perfect option to crop video for you. You can crop the top and or bottom. I'm watching 名探偵コナン (Detective Conan) and it's an older series so good luck finding it without hard subs. But this crop feature is fantastic. On my iPhone I like the app nPlayer. I can view pretty much all video formats and the zoom feature pretty much does the same thing as the cropping.
Unfortunately, although it has the crop feature, on the mac it doesn't seem to do anything. I have to use the Windows version.
dealing with hard subs - Bokusenou - 2015-04-05
Generally I just put an object in front of the subs. XD Any rectangular object which isn't too big usually works well, although if you can get your video player to crop it off, that might be better. If you don't mind editing the files, you could also probably crop the part with the subs off using a video editor.
dealing with hard subs - Helena4 - 2015-04-06
I used to put open a small window of notepad and position it over the subs. However with the last drama I downloaded I realised that VLC player has a "disable" and "add subtitle track" option in its subtitle drop down menu. It will actually disable hard subs and all low me to add new Japanese ones if I want. This also worked to remove sub's from my hardsubbed DVD of the anime FMA, which for some reason had no menu option for watching in Japanese without English sub's (except it wouldn't allow me to watch a DVD with my own Japanese subs) so I'm assuming its going to work for most things.
dealing with hard subs - Flamerokz - 2015-04-06
Helena4 Wrote:I used to put open a small window of notepad and position it over the subs. However with the last drama I downloaded I realised that VLC player has a "disable" and "add subtitle track" option in its subtitle drop down menu. It will actually disable hard subs and all low me to add new Japanese ones if I want. This also worked to remove sub's from my hardsubbed DVD of the anime FMA, which for some reason had no menu option for watching in Japanese without English sub's (except it wouldn't allow me to watch a DVD with my own Japanese subs) so I'm assuming its going to work for most things.Err, that sounds like those aren't hardsubs then.
dealing with hard subs - Helena4 - 2015-04-06
The page of the drama had a check box for hardsubs or and it said hardsubs, and the dvd said it cam e in only English or Japanese with efnlish subtitles. Neither of these could be disabled in any other program and they came within the video file, there was no external sub's file. You're right it doesn't work for my other dramas, but it's still helpful because obviously some files appear to be harsubbed and aren't. Dammit, I thought I'd found myself a system for replacing all esubs with jsubs.