Movie text tracks

[Richard Gaskin]

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