[HacktionLab] mutli-language subtitles for online video

Andy S andys at bristolwireless.net
Thu Mar 28 09:06:55 UTC 2013


On 27 March 2013 19:39, m <marmar at ucrony.net> wrote:

> On 27/03/2013 16:18, Charlie Harvey wrote:
> > Grab a copy of your video, get jwplayer installed and pointed to the
> > video. Then you can specify multiple caption files which are typically
> > text files stored on your webserver (srt files or the new html5 format
> > which I can't remember the name of).
>
> That would mean we'd have to host the video ourselves, no? We were going
> to put it on vimeo and youtube, as to not have to think about bandwidth and
> also for the serendipity factor.
>
>
> On 27/03/2013 18:00, Mick Fuzz wrote:
>
>> DotSub I think will allow this.
>>
>
> Sadly, they have a 25 minute limit. Our film is 40 minutes. Other than
> that I will definitely have a closer look, it does look rather neat.
>
> Split the video in two and use Vimeo would be the more open solution, as
> Vimeo has far better licensing than Yahoo/others:
>
> http://vimeo.com/creativecommons
>
> A
>
>

>  Or create subs in Amara and transfer to YouTube - apparently that's a
>> popular video sharing site and allows multilanguage subs:)
>>
>
> We might actually end up using youtube. We were going to go with Vimeo as
> primary thing and use the Amara embed code to add titles, but it doesn't
> seem like a great plan at this point.
>
> Thanks for the responses and links, I'll keep looking around too.
>
> xm
>
>
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