Transcript Captioning Windows Media Files

Captioning Windows Media Files
Windows Media Player Version 7
and Later
Captioning Windows Media Files
 Delivery Method
 Stand Alone Application/File
 Embedded in a Web Page
 Windows Media Player 10
Stand Alone Application
 3 Required Components
 Video File
 Transcript or SAMI File
 Linker or Playlist File
Transcript or SAMI File
 SAMI – Synchronized Accessible Media
Interchange
 Simply a text file
 Consists of a tagged structure similar to
HTML or web page files
 Navigate again to www.dso.ufl.edu/ela
and follow the directions for the Windows
Media Caption Presentation file 1
Transcript or SAMI File
 Requires a <SAMI> tag to start and end
the file.
 The <SYNC> tag controls when that
particular caption should appear in
milliseconds.
Linker or Playlist File
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This file tells Windows Media Player
where the video file is and where the
transcript or SAMI file is.
Again it’s just a simple text file with tags
Open the captionhq.wvx file from the
Academy CD in the Accessible Windows
Media folder.
Linker or Playlist File
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Must start and end with an <ASX> tag
In the <REF> tag list the video and
SAMI file separated by a ? Mark.
Embedded in a Web Page
 3 Required Components
 Video File
 Transcript or SAMI file
 HTML or the Web Page File
Embedded in a Web Page
 The video file is the same
 The transcript or SAMI file is basically the
same with some added user controlled
options
 Navigate again to www.dso.ufl.edu/ela
and follow the directions for the Windows
Media Caption Presentation file 2
Embedded in a Web Page
 We’ve added a source item to name the
speaker
 We’ve added an option for small or big
text on the fly
 We’ve added an alternative language
Embedded in a Web Page
 Open the embedded.html file from the
Academy CD in the Accessible Windows
Media folder.
 The main component are the values
stored in the <SCRIPT> tag.
Embedded Captioning Exercise
 We are going to caption the Embedded.wmv
video file using the embedded.rtf file as our
transcript.
 We are going to use our previous caption and
HTML files as models and use MS Word’s replace
function to save us time.
 Here are the Milliseconds values 0, 14000,
35000, 46000, 61000, 77000, 96000, 120000,
148000, 173000, 210000, 246000, 279000,
294000, 315000
Windows Media Player 10
 New Lyrics Meta information built into the
file
 Brand new and still needs to be creatively
worked through