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Mac Forum / Applications / Media Player / November 2005closed captioning HOW?
As a technology support coach at NYCDoE, I am surprised to find that the WMP for Mac v9 does not automatically open the closed captioning for a downloaded video. This is a new thread as there was no previous discussion pulled up from my search. I am working with united streaming video from Discovery website. Please advise > As a technology support coach at NYCDoE, I am surprised to find that the WMP > for Mac v9 does not automatically open the closed captioning for a downloaded > video. This is a new thread as there was no previous discussion pulled up > from my search. I am working with united streaming video from Discovery > website. Please advise WMP *should* support CC (as stated on the MS site): http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/software/Macintosh/osx/def ault.aspx It could be (yet another) bug though :-\ I've never encountered a file with CC. Corentin WMP FAQ: http://www.cortig.net/wordpress/?page_id=30 blog on MS apps for Mac: http://www.cortig.net/wordpress  Signature--- Mac:MS MVP (Francophone) --- http://www.mvps.org - http://mvp.support.microsoft.com MVPs are not MS employees - Les MVP ne travaillent pas pour MS Remove "NoSpam" to e-mail me - Retirez "NoSpam" pour m'écrire Hi Corentin, If you are interested, you might want to visit unitedstreaming.com to see a list of mostly educational video clips to download. As for the WMP supporting CC, I know it does well with PC version of WMP. But the Mac version seems to have a problem. And I am trying to find out if anyone else might have found it to work on Apple. Can you direct me to any cool site that you know of? > WMP *should* support CC (as stated on the MS site): > http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/software/Macintosh/osx/def [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > WMP FAQ: http://www.cortig.net/wordpress/?page_id=30 > blog on MS apps for Mac: http://www.cortig.net/wordpress >> As a technology support coach at NYCDoE, I am surprised to find that the WMP >> for Mac v9 does not automatically open the closed captioning for a downloaded >> video. Yes, it does. Are you sending it as a SAMI file or as script commands? Are you sure the SAMI file is correctly formed - the parser on PC seems a little more robust. Also are you sure you've selected File -> Show Captions from the Mac WMP menu ? It definitely shows them on my Mini with Tiger and WMP9. If you're sending as "script commands" (which I'd advise against from a file maintenance standpoint) have you selected WMP Preferences -> "Run script commands when present" as well as "Within a web page" ? > This is a new thread as there was no previous discussion pulled up >> from my search. I am working with united streaming video from Discovery >> website. Please advise If you go to http://www.captionkit.com and pick the Photostory video from the front page, does it show the captions in the caption area now you've selected "Show Captions" ? If not maybe we need a chat, because if it doesn't, my site is broke ! >WMP *should* support CC (as stated on the MS site): >http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/software/Macintosh/osx/def >ault.aspx > >It could be (yet another) bug though :-\ >I've never encountered a file with CC. http://www.captionkit.com has lots of them ;-)) > Corentin > >WMP FAQ: http://www.cortig.net/wordpress/?page_id=30 >blog on MS apps for Mac: http://www.cortig.net/wordpress > >It could be (yet another) bug though :-\ > >I've never encountered a file with CC. > > http://www.captionkit.com has lots of them ;-)) Right. Thanks a lot for the tip Neil. They show up perfectly on my Mac :-)) Corentin Signature--- Mac:MS MVP (Francophone) --- http://www.mvps.org - http://mvp.support.microsoft.com MVPs are not MS employees - Les MVP ne travaillent pas pour MS Remove "NoSpam" to e-mail me - Retirez "NoSpam" pour m'écrire Neil, Thanks for mentioning this website. Right now, I just viewed your PhotoStory clip and saw the captioning come on. Was the program being shown is part of PhotoShop? I didn't get a chance to view the whole clip yet. I will have to spend some extra time to make sure that the caption comes on the Mac version of WMP-9. How did you get started on the use of captioning? Tony > >> As a technology support coach at NYCDoE, I am surprised to find that the WMP > >> for Mac v9 does not automatically open the closed captioning for a downloaded [quoted text clipped - 34 lines] > >WMP FAQ: http://www.cortig.net/wordpress/?page_id=30 > >blog on MS apps for Mac: http://www.cortig.net/wordpress >Neil, >Thanks for mentioning this website. Right now, I just viewed your PhotoStory [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > >How did you get started on the use of captioning? Dunno really. I had a lot of spare time between jobs, and looking around, I had to consider that from an accessibilty standpoint, HOH users and foreign language speakers are *very* poorly provided for with online video. It seemed like a good 'pet project' to write. I guess really, there's no good publishing system out there I can find to publish captioned media for the layman. It's all like "buy our software" (though Magpie is free) then "host it yourself" once you've worked out how to manage the caption file storage and player matching. And if you change the video player format, well you'd better "go off and re-caption it". It didn't seem like a good way of working IMO. I tried to make things a bit more joined up here. You can host the video <wherever> and let the site manage the hookup and publishing of captions, video indexes and so on without the viewer needing to know anything's happening in the background. In some ways it's a "metaservice" since the caption file used by any one player type never exists as-is, it's generated from a XML file held in the DB. That means you can transition from a QT to a Real or WM video, change the video URL and your captions stay the same, they're just re-rendered for the new player type. I'll be making the site tools free in a few weeks (have to tear down some payment scripts first) because the takeup has been extremely limited over 18 months - apart from the fact the captioning tool is only designed to work in IE on PC ;-) Maybe then there will be a few more contributors. >> >> As a technology support coach at NYCDoE, I am surprised to find that the WMP >> >> for Mac v9 does not automatically open the closed captioning for a downloaded [quoted text clipped - 34 lines] >> >WMP FAQ: http://www.cortig.net/wordpress/?page_id=30 >> >blog on MS apps for Mac: http://www.cortig.net/wordpress > I'll be making the site tools free in a few weeks (have to tear down > some payment scripts first) because the takeup has been extremely > limited over 18 months - apart from the fact the captioning tool is > only designed to work in IE on PC ;-) Maybe then there will be a few > more contributors. Good luck with that then :-)) Corentin Signature--- Mac:MS MVP (Francophone) --- http://www.mvps.org - http://mvp.support.microsoft.com MVPs are not MS employees - Les MVP ne travaillent pas pour MS Remove "NoSpam" to e-mail me - Retirez "NoSpam" pour m'écrire |
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