[Xerte] Inclusion of close captions on video files and use ofplaylists

[Julian Tenney]

The play list is just an xml file, so Xerte could easily enough load it
and create a list of items, that when clicked loaded and flv into the
player. 

 

Synching up the display of captions to the playback of the video would
mean tracking the current playhead time in the video and showing the
caption. I assume that the caption file is also xml, something like
this:

 

<captions>

  <caption time="00:12"><![CDATA[Here is a caption</caption>

</captions>

 

Which is all the inforamtion you'd need to also support them,

 

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Johnathan
Kemp
Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009 5:14 PM
To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
Subject: [Xerte] Inclusion of close captions on video files and use
ofplaylists

 

Prior to looking at Xerte I have been experimenting with the jwflv
player, which is free for non-commercial use and has a modest licence
fee for commercial use.

 

This is flash based and allows for the playing of flv files, with
support for the use of playlists and close caption files.

 

Is there any support within Xerte for the use of playlists or close
caption files?

 

If not has anyone looked at the possibility of calling the jwflv player
from within Xerte?

 

Kind regards

 

Johnathan

 

Johnathan Kemp
IT Dev. Manager
Connexions Staffordshire
www.cxstaffs.co.uk <http://www.cxstaffs.co.uk/> 
01785 355714

 

 

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