Questions tagged [closed-captions]

Closed captioning is the process of displaying text on a visual display to provide additional or interpretive information to individuals who wish to access it.

Closed captioning is the process of displaying text on a visual display to provide additional or interpretive information to individuals who wish to access it.

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from Closed Captioning on Wikipedia

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How do you display closed caption format of HLS video stream from an m3u8 URL

I'm working on a Roku and TVOS app that is going to play HLS videos (VOD and live) as well as MP4. According to the Roku docs EIA-608 is supported on both and should also work on TVOS. My question is, given URL to the m3u8 how can I tell what…
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How to extract closed-captioning from streaming online video

I found this, but it seems to be about streaming videos that have been downloaded. Is there any way to extract the SRT from streaming videos without downloading them? Or is there any way to download a streaming video from, say, cbs.com or HULU or…
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Can html 5 video and its captions be served from a CDN?

I was wondering if its possible to serve a video and its subtitle from a CDN such as AWS Cloudfront with HTML5 VIDEO? This is my html5 video code : jsfiddle
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Unable to download closed captions in Youtube API v3

Im using the PHP example code given in Youtube API v3 : https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/docs/captions/download , to download captions from 3rd party, publicly available YouTube videos in my webapp i.e. I have NOT uploaded the content on…
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What subtitle formats are supported by Chromecast?

What subtitle formats are supported by Chromecast (when streaming HLS and) when using the Default Receiver? /BE
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Turning off CC button in Androids Youtube Library

I am trying to solve a problem i currently have with the Youtube player in a android app. I want to play a video with controls such as play, pauze, volume and fullscreen. The only Playermode as far as i know that does this is the default player.…
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Integrate Captions on Web Page with JWPlayer

I am trying to implement Video Captions like at Lynda.com e.g. http://www.lynda.com/JavaScript-tutorials/Foundations-of-Programming-Fundamentals/83603-2.html The captions run with the player and also in a block of HTML below the player. I am using…
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Youtube-API: Upload binary captions file (ebu-stl)

Youtube supports some binary caption file formats, such as ebu-stl. I've got an *.stl file that uploads and processes just fine when I upload it via the web interface. But when I try to upload it via the API v2 with a POST request, it does not seem…
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How To Disable Youtube Captions in a Youtube Embed Link

When creating an embed link on youtube the Captions are on by default. Is there a way to disable to the captions or turning them off when embedding a youtube link? The documentation indicates: Make captions automatically appear for an embedded video…
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Which one is better DOTSUB or AMARA

I am looking for a user friendly caption creator which support multiple language. I have come across AMARA and DOTSUB.Both are looking pretty good, hard to choose , so i was looking for some expert opinion. I will be using Jwplayer for my videos…
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Turning off closed caption on HTML5 video by default

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How do I get only the first closed caption from a video file?

I need to find the start date of some video files on my hard drive. Date modified, or filename, etc won't help me - the true start time is in the closed captions. Using CCExtractor and some Python Popen... import subprocess process =…
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Can an iOS app access the subtitles or closed captions of a video in the device's Videos library?

Is there a way to do this, by using the Media Player Framework or any other means? I would like to build an app that allows the user to work with the subtitles of a store-bought video.
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React Native Expo Audio API - Sync UI Elements

Is there any way to sync UI elements or animations to sound playing in the Expo Audio SDK? https://docs.expo.dev/versions/latest/sdk/audio/ I couldn't find much more on this topic in the official docs and googling turned up pretty dry. Effectively,…
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How to make custom coloured closed caption for videos in YouTube?

See this video with caption on (Warning: Contains violent language but of not such a great deal. Its just a animation) https://youtu.be/Hk_S1mbfsQA This video have animated color caption. I cannot change the color from the settings Can anyone say…
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