YouTube SRV3 subtitles reportedly being disabled, users report custom captions no longer working
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YouTube appears to be cracking down on SRV3 subtitle files, disabling new uploads and deleting existing custom captions from major channels including Hololive, Dream.

These offer customization like colors, text styling and positioning and are used to distinguish who is speaking or for karaoke subs and are now potentially being lost forever.

  • carrylex@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    While I’m not quite sure about the exact reasons for the removal, here are some probable guesses:

    • it’s a bug
    • the unsupported, internal format - that allows for pretty much everything - is in some way exploitable
    • It’s getting replaced by something better/standardized as the current solution doesn’t seem to always work properly in YT’s apps
    • Lyrl@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      2 months ago

      the unsupported, internal format - that allows for pretty much everything - is in some way exploitable

      It prevents AI summaries of the video from including all the video content. Obvious solution: remove the information missing from the summary from the video itself. Now they match! /s