VP-157: Add support for parsing and displaying YouTube-formatted captions in the Video Player

Metadata

Source
VP-157
Type
Bug
Priority
Critical
Status
Closed
Resolution
Won't Fix
Assignee
N/A
Reporter
Colin Clark
Created
2009-12-01T17:14:41.000-0500
Updated
2017-12-22T10:28:51.345-0500
Versions
  1. 0.1
Fixed Versions
N/A
Component
  1. captions

Description

At the moment, the Video Player supports only CapScribe's native JSON-based caption format. It would be excellent to write a parser for YouTube's captions, especially now that AutoCaps and transcription syncing are available. Here's a page that outline's the YouTube caption format:

http://www.google.com/support/youtube/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=100077

Should be pretty simple to write a regexp-based parser for this format, converting it into JSON.

Comments

  • Justin Obara commented 2010-05-07T14:59:20.835-0400

    a11y issue

  • Anastasia Cheetham commented 2012-10-25T11:24:25.879-0400

    We now support WebVTT captions. We should have another look at what formats YouTube supports, and how we work with them.

  • Justin Obara commented 2017-12-22T10:28:51.344-0500

    The video player repository has been archived.