[HN Gopher] PlayPhrase: Site for Searching Cinema Phrases
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       PlayPhrase: Site for Searching Cinema Phrases
        
       Author : NKosmatos
       Score  : 95 points
       Date   : 2021-06-08 12:21 UTC (10 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.playphrase.me)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.playphrase.me)
        
       | geofree wrote:
       | Nice implementation, I like how it continuously plays. Similar
       | concept to my company https://getyarn.io, where you can search
       | into movies and tv shows :)
        
         | treejanitor wrote:
         | I wonder how many clips they have compared to the 10 million+
         | in Yarn...
         | 
         | https://www.getyarn.io/yarn-clip/2d30e3f1-6bc1-4aa0-bdc4-6d5...
        
       | josefresco wrote:
       | Neat, it handled "you can't handle the truth" swimmingly!
        
       | niksmac wrote:
       | Where is "Guns. Lots Of Guns"?
        
         | geofree wrote:
         | https://getyarn.io/yarn-find?text=Guns.%20Lots%20Of%20Guns
        
         | ghostpepper wrote:
         | I couldn't find anything from The Matrix or Ghostbusters
        
       | etcet wrote:
       | Ooo this is so cool [0]. I need to know the implementation
       | details. How are the clips stored? Are they dynamically generated
       | with ffmpeg or something or is every line of dialogue clipped out
       | ready to serve? How many films and what are the storage costs?
       | 
       | [0] https://www.playphrase.me/#/search?q=this+is+so+cool
        
         | WalterGR wrote:
         | And how did they even get their source material?
        
       | riffraff wrote:
       | I don't know what to do with this[0], but it's pretty nice, great
       | implementation, well done!
       | 
       | [0] Other than this sort of video
       | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzoPSV4ua94
        
       | mratsim wrote:
       | Is this scraping a subtitle service + retrieving the timestamp
       | from the subtitle and displaying it?
        
       | LargoLasskhyfv wrote:
       | Fails at: "I find your lack of faith disturbing."
       | 
       | (Darth Vader)
        
       | dvh wrote:
       | Search bar doesn't work in Android webview. Placeholder is not
       | placeholder, I had to delete it, pressing enter doesn't start
       | search and they're is no button to start search. Also font is
       | huge. You have reimplemented input field and complete broke it in
       | the process.
        
       | ChrisArchitect wrote:
       | the speed at results and seeing clips from some of my fave movies
       | left me super impressed
        
       | afranchuk wrote:
       | "with cheese" seems to be exclusively in Pulp Fiction :D
        
       | salmon wrote:
       | Not sure if it's because I didn't make an account, but 8 of the
       | 10 clips I got were all from The Dark Knight. I searched 2
       | phrases.
        
       | pkulak wrote:
       | https://www.playphrase.me/#/search?q=you+son+of+a+bitch
       | 
       | I wonder how long that would run for if I was a sponsor.
        
       | ampdepolymerase wrote:
       | How are you able to store all the videos?
        
       | NKosmatos wrote:
       | Allows you to search for a specific phrase or word and you get
       | video results from movies (with timestamp), where this
       | phrase/word is being used. Has around 2M phrases and the first 5
       | results are free, afterwards you need to become a sponsor.
        
         | WalterGR wrote:
         | Are you affiliated? Others and I have questions about
         | implementation...
        
           | NKosmatos wrote:
           | Nope, no affiliation or connection at all. Just me being the
           | average HN user posting something interesting I found :-) I
           | have questions myself, especially how they haven't shut them
           | down due to copyright issues.
        
             | WalterGR wrote:
             | Fair use?
        
       | epaga wrote:
       | This is incredibly impressive, especially the ability to
       | immediately download the snippet as an mp4.
       | 
       | How has this not been immediately shut down due to copyright?
        
         | NKosmatos wrote:
         | I had the same question...perhaps it has to do with the length
         | of the videoclip.
        
         | pkulak wrote:
         | This looks like bog-standard fair use to me.
        
       | roldie wrote:
       | This is really great! So much fun to try out different phrases.
        
       | ThisNameIsTaken wrote:
       | For those interested in playing around with something similar: it
       | looks like a sort of large scale implementation of Sam Lavigne's
       | Videogrep[1].
       | 
       | [1]: http://antiboredom.github.io/videogrep/
        
         | efferifick wrote:
         | Came here to point videogrep out. It is a great tool!
         | 
         | I don't remember if this is out of the box for videogrep, but
         | it is possible to generate "fine-grained" subtitle information
         | using speech to text and some massaging. In other words,
         | subtitles that match a specific word.
         | 
         | I worked on something similar to this using videogrep and
         | "fine-grained" subtitle information using Seinfeld clips. My
         | short experiment took as input a string and looked for the
         | longest matching subtitle and created a clip out of longest
         | matching subtitles of characters saying the contents of the
         | input string. I couldn't figure out how to get diarization to
         | work reliably back then, if anyone knows, please let me know!
        
       | ortusdux wrote:
       | One of the Daily Show's greatest strengths was their ability to
       | quickly compile relevant clips. I always wondered if they had a
       | service like this. I assumed that they were scraping CC text
       | themselves. Maybe they just had a phenomenal research dept.
        
         | realityking wrote:
         | The Daily Show, and I believe most similar shows, use a product
         | called Snapstream: https://www.snapstream.com/entertainment
         | 
         | Crucially this is not a cloud product, I suspect for copyright
         | reasons.
        
         | josefresco wrote:
         | I often wonder this too about a radio show I listen to with
         | several decades of archives. I wonder what the interface looks
         | like, and how hard it really is to assemble clips. Having a
         | database of thousands of hours of video and audio to search
         | sounds cool!
        
       | tabokie wrote:
       | I've been holding this idea of searching movie subtitles for a
       | long time, but haven't got the energy to actually code it out. So
       | glad to see someone else made it come true!
        
       | reificator wrote:
       | I've always wanted a service like this, for movies, TV, and
       | music.
       | 
       | I might be missing it, but is there a way to share a link to a
       | specific clip, preferably not including the text used to search
       | for it?
        
         | geofree wrote:
         | https://getyarn.io/yarn-find?text=Listen%20up%20you%20primit...
        
           | reificator wrote:
           | I edited right before you posted because I realized I
           | misremembered the line. Thanks though.
        
       | jonheller wrote:
       | This is one of the most impressive projects I've seen on HN in a
       | long time. Nice work!
        
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