Idea to develop clickable subtitle text

[mythspal]

Hi everyone, I was thinking of developing the feature that allows users to click the subtitle text and retrieve the definition of the chosen text online or from a local dictionary application. I just started reading the huge dev. documentation and is thinking how can I implement this.

For the first and simple use case: Given a video file and its subtitle file in .srt format, I want the subtitle text to be displayed in a separate panel with transparent background, the text will be displayed and updated like normal subtitle stream when the video is played. When the user clicks a word in the panel, its definition is displayed in another pop-up-like box.

[tojewel]

That would be a nice feature to learn English. In fact, I was looking for this exact plugin for vlc and you after seeing your message I got confirmed that something like this doesnt exist

[ahmed maher]

i had the same wish guys , i'm not a pro in LUA though so i ended up creating this , check it out

https://github.com/engMaher/LLG-MP

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Nice.