Captioning Online Videos January 2008 Update
Nothing new has happened with regarding to captioning online or downloadable videos. I researched iPod captioning again to see if something had changed since the iTunes v7.4 comes with show captioning option as shown in iLounge.
However, I came across DiveintoMark’s entry on how to view his videoblogs with captions. Reviewing this — we have a problem. Too many options, too many different ways of doing things, no standards.
How can we expect iTunes to work as it depends on the video’s settings/codecs? A video may have captioning available for one media player, but not for iTunes and others.
At least Project readOn requires nothing but a browser and Flash to view its captioned videos. If you want to watch an episode of The Office, you’re outta luck as I am sure the service doesn’t have the licensing to caption TV shows.
Project readOn provides a wonderful service. Since it depends on requests for captioning videos — it can take time before we can see a popular video.
Frustration aside, this inspirational video from Lamar Richardson — I Am the Standard — requires no captions. A deaf woman appears around seven minutes into the video. I even enjoyed the music and appreciated its message.
Comments
Hi, I don’t know if you’ve looked at iTunes lately, but I’ve noticed that some movies have the CC symbol attached when you look at them in the browse screen.
I haven’t really had a chance to rent or buy any of the movies, but you might want to take a look.
Posted by: Tim Mesa | January 30, 2008 6:18 PM
not only that but in the …not very legal terms, someone told me about bit-torrent, and a place called pirate bay, downloadable movies in all formats, and you can get seprate subtitle files to add to each movie :) handy… but of course… not the best way to go about it
Posted by: lette | February 3, 2008 2:25 AM
some movies with CC on iTunes can be purchase to own or rent. And test on iPhone show CC which is good readable. Check my video that display. ;)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpcjQaMRFw0
Posted by: Sam © Copright from Texas | February 4, 2008 10:47 AM
This video shows how to turn on captions on the iPhone courtesy Tecnocato.
Posted by: Meryl
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February 4, 2008 10:59 AM