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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> xerte-dev-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Fay Cross<br><b>Sent:</b> 30 May 2012 10:37<br><b>To:</b> For Xerte technical developers<br><b>Subject:</b> [Xerte-dev] Re: Video and subtitles from external file in Xenith project<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Hi Johnathan<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>The HTML5 version will support mp4, ogg and webm file types. It will also support the flvs that we currently use but these will obviously need flash so won’t work on iPads etc.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I have made a simple tool that will make a timed transcript files to go with audio / video files – I’ll send you it in a sec.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Not sure about the best way to convert files at the moment though.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Fay<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> xerte-dev-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Kemp Johnathan<br><b>Sent:</b> 30 May 2012 10:25<br><b>To:</b> Xerte Developers Discussion List<br><b>Subject:</b> [Xerte-dev] Video and subtitles from external file in Xenith project<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'>I have recently produced some documentation to support the new pages in the next release of Xerte / XOT.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'>I used Open Office so that <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'>a) I could supply anyone who wanted to translate it with an editable copy<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'>b) so that I could output in pdf format<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'>But it occurred to me this morning that it might be useful to use something like camstudio to create some demo videos.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'>If I left off any sound and used subtitles driven from an external file (are they subtitles or closed caption?) then it would enable translators to create alternative subtitles.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'>So I was wondering if any decisions have been made regarding the Xenith project as to what video format would be best to use and if anyone had considered what format of subtitle / close caption file they would want to go with it?<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'>If I am going to have a go at this it makes sense (to me at least) that any end result should work with whatever results from the Xenith project.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'>As a real long shot has anyone identified any free software products e.g. for generating the subtitle files, converting the video format, playing the video / subtitles?<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'>Kind regards<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'>Johnathan<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></body></html>