I’m wrong, apparently AVfoundation does do text tracks. https://www.raywenderlich.com/30200/avfoundation-tutorial-adding-overlays-and-animations-to-videos
Will there be the capability to create these tracks in LiveCode? For Windows? I know not. Peter Bogdanoff On Apr 23, 2016, at 10:59 PM, Peter Bogdanoff <[email protected]> wrote: > You can do timed subtitles now using callbacks—if you want the text to > display outside the player, like in a field. > > Look up “callbacks" in the dictionary. Basically you build a list with lines > like this: > > <time>,<command> > > When the player reaches that time it sends that command. > > The handler that receives the command has the job of putting the appropriate > text into the field. > > QuickTime has always had the ability to display subtitles (“text track”) > directly in a player video window. I don’t think AV Foundation does that. > > Peter Bogdanoff > UCLA > > > On Apr 23, 2016, at 8:15 PM, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Panos: >> >> I will throw in an important use case here as we need LC to move forward to >> gain parity with the world of audio and video that runs in sync with >> >> 1) subtitling >> 2) full transcript >> 3) song lyrics >> >> This requires a backend where subtitles/yrics/transcripts are timecoded >> “along the way” so to speak, so that as the narration (audio or video) >> progresses, the visual text elements (presentation varies, on screen… a >> field off to the right of the video etc. below the player… >> >> So, whatever you do… make sure that we can support this on all platforms w/o >> quicktime >> >> Been waiting “decades” …that’s an exaggeration.. Just 17 years… not decades. >> We might even be able to give SMIL a kick (he’s been asleep since 2008) and >> make it useful again. >> >> Imagine this + sound >> >> https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9b/SMIL_missile_demo.svg >> >> BR >> >> >> >> On 4/23/16, 9:34 AM, "use-livecode on behalf of panagiotis merakos" >> <[email protected] on behalf of [email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> >>> *>>>A related question: One thing I currently use when saving files as >>> QuickTime is Fast Start (Prepare for Internet Streaming). This allows files >>> to start playing before they are completely downloaded. Will the new >>> Windows player support some kind of streaming format like this?*All I can >>> say now is that implementing a Windows player is of higher priority than is >>> was before, and we will give our best to make the new Windows player to >>> provide the full functionality as before, without relying to QuickTime. >>> >>> Best, >>> Panos >> _______________________________________________ >> use-livecode mailing list >> [email protected] >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription >> preferences: >> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
