觉醒年代 Age of Awakening is rated 9.3 on Douban, on par with Minning Town, and is almost unheard of in the West. At the same time, the production quality (at least from what I see) is the best the country can offer. But I think the reason they won't bother with English subtitles, is (1) that it's produced by CCTV therefore non-commercial and (2) the nature of the series itself.
That being said, I don't see why not I try and give translating this show a shot, so I translated the trailer and here it is.
I've uploaded the subtitles to a remote Git repository so feel free to contribute whenever you can:
https://forge.chapril.org/agentofchange/age-of-awakening.git
There's a reason why Chinese GenZ is talking about this drama all the time
CCTV actually has the entire series on YouTube but with hard-coded Chinese subtitles only, I'm using that as a reference:
https://youtu.be/playlist?list=PLa213RC5YYIwYGZg9_ffwmsQO_UiEhjxL
The thing is, I really need some helping hands since it's quite time-intensive to translate so I'm making these clips to grab people's attention and get volunteers
EDIT: Also, this is the ten minutes clip ComradeSage is referencing: https://ptube.xmanifesto.club/videos/watch/dc4234cd-0846-4975-a0bb-152ad56ca711
This is actually exactly what I needed, thank you. The issue now is that I'm having troubling installing it, since its opencv dependency requires libstdc++ shared object file but cannot detect it, I'll try to work this out.
tesseract is already in PATH, I'm referring to OpenCV (or opencv-python). The full traceback is:
$ python3 ocr.py Traceback (most recent call last): File "ocr.py", line 1, in <module> from videocr import save_subtitles_to_file File "/home/user/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/videocr/__init__.py", line 2, in <module> from .api import get_subtitles, save_subtitles_to_file File "/home/user/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/videocr/api.py", line 2, in <module> from .video import Video File "/home/user/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/videocr/video.py", line 6, in <module> import cv2 File "/home/user/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/cv2/__init__.py", line 5, in <module> from .cv2 import * ImportError: libstdc++.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directoryI'm running Guix System so the problem is probably related to the distribution I use and not the module.
Unfortunately no, I think the problem is how my distribution packaged opencv, there's something wrong with the compilation in CI
Tesseract is not the problem, openCV is the issue. Anyways, I've managed to run videocr on Ubuntu on a 4-core NUC (not my 12-core machine), it's been 2 hours and it's not finished processing the 5 minute trailer.
I have it working too. The 5-minute video takes at most 20 minutes on a 12-core machine. The problem now is finding the right parameters to get the Chinese subtitles in place. Two subtitles lines are sometimes merged together, not properly timed, and some are ignored completely. Fortunately, when it does correctly extract the subtitle, the text is fine albeit with spaces between them.
I'm trying out ffmpeg filters to isolate #FFFFFF and make everything else black, I've tried colorhold but it changes everything else to gray which is not useful.
Thank you so much for your effort, have you read my PM yet?
Awesome job! This series looks amazing! It’s high fucking time the Chinese started (?) cranking out high quality leftwing movies and TV shows since it’s almost impossible to make that shit anywhere else.
Check out The Last Emperor if you haven't already. The story is framed by the last emperor of China's time in prison after he's captured by Soviets and turned over to the CPC at the end of WWII. It's a biography of him, but it touches on a lot of Chinese history from about 1910 through the Cultural Revolution. Directed by an Italian Marxist, has a ton of beautiful on-location shots of the Forbidden City.