Security researchers have discovered an exploit found in various media players that allow hackers to use subtitles to take over computers, smartphones, and smart TVs. Binge watchers, especially those ...

Security firm Check Point reports a new breed of malware is spreading in fake movie subtitles. You think you're loading a subtitle, but what you're actually doing is giving a hacker full access to ...

Here is a guide for you to create SRT subtitle files in Windows 11/10. SRT stands for SubRip Text and is a subtitle file used to insert captions to movies and videos. It is a text-based file that ...

Subtitles are crucial for videos, especially when they’re inaudible or not in your local language. This is why it’s annoying when subtitles are missing from your videos. VLC Media Player subtitles can ...

I used Whisper AI, OpenAI’s free and offline speech-to-text tool, to generate subtitles for any movie by installing it locally with Python, PyTorch, and ffmpeg. Once set up, you just run a simple ...

A report by Checkpoint Research titled “Hacked in Translation” says a new exploit can take over your PC through fake movie subtitle files. The exploit reportedly affects users of Popcorn Time and VLC ...

Researchers at Check Point Security Labs have uncovered a nasty new hacking technique that takes advantage security deficiencies in several popular media players. The exploit uses phony subtitle files ...

An SRT file contains the dialog and timing information used to display subtitles on your media player. SRT subtitles are often used with movies encoded with an AVI container such as H.264 or DivX. In ...

In R&D's Broadcast and Connected Systems team we've done a lot of research into how the BBC can best deliver audio and video content to viewers via the Internet, and in particular how we might do this ...

Google Play’s crazy automated app review process strikes again. This time, the puritan robot overlords that run the Play Store briefly decided that listing support for common subtitle files is enough ...