YuzuLingo vs Voracious (rsimmons)
YuzuLingo stays in the browser. You cover burned-in subtitles on the video you are already watching, including YouTube, Bilibili, and other web players. There is no media player to set up and no subtitle file to start from. Turn on Interact to read the burned-in line on your device, with furigana or pinyin when the language has them. Show that text always, on hover, or while you hold a hotkey.
Voracious is rsimmons’ video player, in the repo voracious. It runs on Mac, Windows, and Linux. You point it at a local media folder laid out like Kodi or Plex, with a subtitle file whose name matches the video. It can show more than one subtitle track, replay the current line, and step forward and back by subtitle. Viewing modes pause and hide or reveal the subtitles. For Japanese, it adds furigana. The hover dictionary is Japanese only. The README names EPWING files. The code also loads local Yomichan dictionary zips, so that lookup stays on the device. It is not the live Yomitan extension. Export sends the line to Anki through AnkiConnect, with the sentence, readings, audio, and an image. It does not read burned-in text. It cannot play some codecs, including H.265 and AC3. Search across the whole subtitle library is listed as coming soon. Release 0.6.0. The last commit was about 7 years ago. The download is marked alpha. MIT license.
GitHub - rsimmons/voracious: A video player for studying foreign languages (esp. Japanese)Where each one fits
| Feature | YuzuLingo | Voracious |
|---|---|---|
| Install in the browser, no media player to set up | ||
| Cover burned-in subs while a web video plays | ||
| No video file to start from | ||
| No subtitle file to start from | ||
| Read that burned-in line while the web video plays, on your device | ||
| Furigana or pinyin on that line | ||
| Show that text always, on hover, or while you hold a hotkey | ||
| Show more than one subtitle track | ||
| Furigana on a Japanese subtitle track | ||
| Look up a Japanese word in a subtitle track | ||
| Replay the current subtitle and step by subtitle | ||
| Add the line to an Anki deck |