Movie text tracks
Richard Gaskin
ambassador at fourthworld.com
Wed May 18 12:53:35 EDT 2022
Good to see you here, Devin.
If your app can handle the RAM hit of embedding a browser app instance
with the Browser Widget, and if you can extract the text track info from
QT's proprietary format, HTML supports text tracks nicely via the WebVTT
standard:
https://www.3playmedia.com/learn/how-to-guides/html5-video-captioning/
--
Richard Gaskin
Fourth World Systems
Devin Asay wrote:
> I’m resurrecting some QuickTime movies from years ago, and some of
> them have text tracks. (Remember those?)
>
> In the LC player object you can still see that there is a text track
> with `put the tracks of player 1`. But there doesn’t seem to be a
> way anymore to show text tracks, either in the player object or in
> QT Player. All of the hits I get on the topic in a DuckDuckGo search
> are 15 - 20 years old.
>
> Anybody know how to show, or at least recover, old text tracks from
> video files?
>
> (Man I hate it when the technology gets *less* capable!)
>
> - Devin
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