Subtitle and the future of the Player control

[OLIVER GMAIL]

Hi,

for a project I had to subtitle 63 hours of videos, I couldn't find any 
subtitle software that was speedy enough to manage such a huge amount, 
so I decided to make a custom subtitler for our specific needs and 
workflow. It was fairly easy to build it with Livecode. You simply need 
to regularily check the currentTime of your player object and compare it 
to the timecode in your subtitlefile. You then show/hide the subtitle at 
the right moment. As longs as there will be the currentTime property 
available you can work easily with subititles in Livecode. There is one 
major caveat though: It is not possible to show the subtitle on top of 
the video, otherwise it will decrease the playback performance 
massively. I had to place the subtitle outside of the player object, 
than it worked. In the good old quick-times alwaysBuffer worked well, it 
was easy to draw on top of a video without performance issues.

if you are in interested to hear more you can send me direct mail.

Best,

Oliver

On 07/11/23 19.00, use-livecode-request at lists.runrev.com wrote:
> Subtitle and the future of the Player control

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