[Athen] RE: captions when video on streaming server

[Ron Stewart]

The other issue maybe that the video needs to be recompiled to support the
system that your campus is using.  We ran into that at Oregon State, the
system we were using to caption/subtitle was slightly off in its time codes.
This will happen when you are using Mac technology along with PC technology.
Our campus media folks where very helpful in this process, we ran the
existing content through the CODEX they were using and it was great.  

 

Ron Stewart

 

From: athen-list-bounces at mailman1.u.washington.edu
[mailto:athen-list-bounces at mailman1.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of
Harris,John Paul
Sent: Monday, September 12, 2011 8:07 AM
To: 'Access Technology Higher Education Network'
Subject: [Athen] RE: captions when video on streaming server

 

Dean,

 

Does the media player from the streaming server have the capability to find
and play the ASX or SMIL files?  Sometimes, a media player cannot
synchronize an external caption file or open an SMIL/ASX file for video
playback.  A lot of times a player can only play captions when the info is
embedded in the file container, like an MP4 file container.

 

I am somewhat sure your issue is related to the media player that is
installed on your streaming server .

 

John Paul Harris

Assistive Tech IT Coordinator

Assistive Technology Resource Center

Colorado State University

 

 

 

From: athen-list-bounces at mailman1.u.washington.edu
[mailto:athen-list-bounces at mailman1.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of
Brusnighan, Dean A.
Sent: Monday, September 12, 2011 7:10 AM
To: ATHEN mailing list
Subject: [Athen] captions when video on streaming server

 

Hi,

 

I am looking for guidance on how to get captions to play with a video hosted
on a streaming server. 

 

A department on campus has a commercial video (with proper permissions) on a
streaming server. They have obtained a CD from the production company that
has three different formats of the video (WMV, MOV and FLV), as well as the
proper caption file formats for each. So far, I have been unsuccessful in
getting captions to play when the video is streaming. 

 

I have tried having the ASX file and the SMI file on the server with the
WMV. I have also tried having the ASX file and the SMI file on a local hard
drive with the WMV on the server. I've clicked on the ASX file rather than
have it embedded in a web page. Does that make a difference in this
situation?

 

Thanks in advance for any ideas or resources you can provide!

 

Dean

 

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Dean Brusnighan

Assistive Technology Specialist

Purdue University, Young Hall

155 S. Grant Street

West Lafayette, IN 47907-2108

Phone: 765-494-9082

dabrus at purdue.edu

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

 

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mailman12.u.washington.edu/pipermail/athen-list/attachments/20110912/694c3894/attachment.html>