Cliparr 3.1: a new mobile experience, now with cropping | Cliparr
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Meet Cliparr's redesigned mobile editor: more room for your preview, a bottom action bar, and new cropping tools. Trim, reframe, and add your media server's subtitles from your phone.

Cliparr 3.1 just released with an overhauled native-like mobile experience and a new cropping tool.

What is Cliparr?

Cliparr is an open-source, self-hosted companion tool that integrates directly with your Jellyfin and Plex media servers to make extracting video clips from what you are currently watching seamless.

Cliparr performs 100% of its media tasks, including transcoding, directly in the browser and works on all devices.

What is it for?

Creating clips from your media library: memes for forums, short clips/GIFs for social media, or clean video segments for personal archives and sharing.

What does it need to run?

Almost nothing. Any modern smartphone, tablet, or desktop can run Cliparr. Host it locally alongside your media server and install the PWA directly to your device. It requires no external internet connection and can edit local media completely offline.

AI Disclosure

In accordance with community rules, here is the breakdown of AI involvement in this release:

  • Implementation - Assisted
  • Testing - Assisted (CI integration, browser automation tests, and extensive manual testing across multiple physical devices were written/executed with AI assistance)
  • Documentation - Hint (Release notes and documentation primarily human-authored with minor AI assistance)
        • TechSquidTV@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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          23 hours ago

          Just make sure you can see subtitles in Jellyfin or Plex first. In Plex for example, I often need to use Plex’s subtitle search first and enable subtitles on the stream.

          • Autonomous@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            20 hours ago

            I see them in jellyfin, they just didn’t show up in cliparr. They may be the subtitles built into the MKV file though, it that matters.

            • TechSquidTV@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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              4 hours ago

              That’s good to know, appreciate that. It SHOULD still be working. It has the ability to read the subtitle tracks off any supported media. I will say, I am not as thorough in my manual testing of Jellyfin as I am for Plex.

              Any chance I could bother you to open a GitHub issue? Or just give me some details here? I will definitely get this fixed and make sure there is a test case for whatever this specific scenario is.

              Here’s what would be super helpful for me:

              1. In Jellyfin, open the “Media Info” and scroll down to the Subtitle section. What codec and language is it showing? You can paste the full info if you want. There may be more than one track.

              2. In Cliparr, while those subtitles are visible and playing in Jellyfin, look in the right-side Subtitles sidebar. See where it says “+ Add subtitle”? To the right of that is a (…) menu. Click that (…), what does it say in there?

              I assume for you, it might say “Start Blank”, which would mean it did not recognize any subtitle tracks, either from the file, or as a “sidecar” stream.

              I’m going to get a PR open to add more logging around subtitles specifically. I checked and unfortunately I do not have the log in place that would be the most helpful here. But please do tell me if you see any browser console logs. If you do open an issue, I’ll send you 3.1.1-rc soon.

              Be careful to check any logs for private info before sharing. Anything you might not want to share, like maybe user folder names, etc.