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RealMTL
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Finally! It's really sad that this has to be news though. But maybe now I'll be more inclined to watch anime on Crunchyroll instead of VRV.
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getchman
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I don't know when the option became available but you can turn off the subtitles on funi's website. don't know about anything else since that's the only thing i use. they've had that option since at least the beginning of September, which is when I noticed it when i went to watch the 4 eps of Zillion they uploaded |
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Gina Szanboti
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I've been dreading this. Sure enough, all I get is a blank screen now. :/
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Key
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Posts: 18135 Location: Indianapolis, IN (formerly Mimiho Valley) |
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Admittedly I haven't tried it since probably the Spring season, so they must have updated that functionality sometime over the summer. Would have been nice to have had that back when Funi's site was still one of the major providers of subbed simulcasts. |
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BigHeadClan
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Welcome to 2010 Crunchy Roll! About time! Sooo about HTML 6... lol
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Fenrin
Posts: 693 Location: SoCal |
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I only care that free users finally get HD! I'll actually be using Crunchy now that it's not garbage 480p.
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SWAnimefan
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I feel Crunchyroll is still way behind the times. If they don't put some effort into keeping with the technology curve, it will ultimately hurt themselves.
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Zalis116
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Posts: 6864 Location: Kazune City |
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Nice to see that CR has implemented this long-requested update, though I'm not surprised that it didn't take long for the usual goalposts-moving to begin.
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MarshalBanana
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So what was the one that they were suing before?
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configspace
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That's the issue and likely one of the reasons CR took so long is that there's no actual standard beyond the dumbed down closed captioning style subtitles in html5 because literally no one else in the online streaming world cares about advanced subtitling or typesetting. Even Funimation had to use hardsubs (i.e. it's baked into the video). CR's implementation works the same across all browsers (I use Firefox, so a webkit based framework wouldn't help me) and languages. But even currently as stated in the article the typsetting is not still quite as good as before when they used flash. As far as WebVTT I took a look at the spec and it does seem to support a subset of ASS. It doesn't appear to support the the overlay of graphics and animation like ASS, to implement karaoke effects or scrolling text replacement on a cell phone. But then again, neither does CR's player. about the article's
Just an FYI while you can't disable subtitles currently, you CAN switch to a different language from within the episode's page with the language links and their country flags just under each video. Hopefully they bring all the functionality back from the flash version in a right-click menu or the player's settings button
On desktop or some device? On a desktop browser, I had some issues too. I had to log out and completely clear my cookies and cache then login. There's this thread: http://www.crunchyroll.com/forumtopic-1024556/new-html5-player-2018-unofficial-faq?pg=0 and these pages: https://help.crunchyroll.com/hc/en-us/categories/200405225-Technical-Questions https://help.crunchyroll.com/hc/en-us/articles/205402055-The-VIDEOS-AREN-T-WORKING-properly-What-s-wrong- |
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Maidenoftheredhand
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I honestly didn’t even notice a change. Just shows my lack of observation.
But really I am just here waiting to be able to download stuff to watch offline. |
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Beatdigga
Posts: 4352 Location: New York |
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IIRC VRV offers that. Anyway, good. Now I’m sure that will placate the fanbase and not cause more complaints to a company with worse PR than Konami. No sir, this is gonna be good for them. |
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Cam0
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Yeah, I had noticed that the player changed. Cool, I guess. I never really had any real issues with the old player. It wasn't good for using the seek bar thingy to get to a specific part in an episode among some other issues. But generally speaking I had no issues when watching an episode from beginning to end.
Well, that's annoying. Being able to turn off subs to take a screenshot was something I quite liked. |
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sputn1k
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The problem with WebVTT is probably that there's no proper editor for it that offers the same functionality as Aegisub does for .ass subtitles. Any platform wanting to take advantage of WebVTT while retaining easy editing will probably have to keep working with Aegisub and then convert the output via other tools for the time being. |
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Doc
Posts: 86 Location: United States |
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Whereas mine has been freezing up more... |
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