[Athen] RE: captions when video on streaming server

[Brusnighan, Dean A.]

Thanks to each of you that responded to my question. Your suggestions and questions help me see how much I have yet to learn.

It appears that contacting the media folks in charge of the streaming server would be helpful, no matter what video format we end up choosing. I will make that contact to ask about the media player installed on the streaming server, and the possible CODEC issue.

Yes, I believe being cross-platform is important in this situation. Is QuickTime the only viable option then? My understanding is that Flash isn't available on Apple/Mac devices.

Thanks for your help!

Dean

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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<mailto:dabrus at purdue.edu>
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From: athen-list-bounces at mailman1.u.washington.edu [mailto:athen-list-bounces at mailman1.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Ron Stewart
Sent: Monday, September 12, 2011 4:34 PM
To: 'Access Technology Higher Education Network'
Subject: RE: [Athen] RE: captions when video on streaming server

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> [mailto:athen-list-bounces at mailman1.u.washington.edu]<mailto:[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> [mailto:athen-list-bounces at mailman1.u.washington.edu]<mailto:[mailto:athen-list-bounces at mailman1.u.washington.edu]> On Behalf Of Brusnighan, Dean A.
Sent: Monday, September 12, 2011 7:10 AM
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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

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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<mailto:dabrus at purdue.edu>
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