--- Forwarded Message from Samantha Earp <[log in to unmask]> --- >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: Streaming QT: text tracks (!) >From: Samantha Earp <[log in to unmask]> >Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 12:51:44 -0500 Jorg, We've used a different app - Quicktime Pro- to add a subtitle box (hinted text track) to MPEG-4 video files. The text track is generated from a text file that includes Quicktime descriptors to set the various parameters, so this is a manual process and may be different from what you do with Textation - I'm not familiar with that tool. The text track is added to the MPEG-4 video file in Quicktime, and the resulting files are then uploaded to the streaming server. The last step is to use Quicktime again to create reference movies to point to the media files on the server. There were some problems when attempting to point directly to the file on the server (via http) when the subtitles wouldn't show up, but this has worked well using the reference movies to generate the link. (It seems to me that both should work, but a Quicktime engineer says it's more reliable with reference movies). I'd be happy to give you the step-by-step process we followed for the Quicktime side of things if you decide you'd want to look at that rather than Textation. Thanks, Samantha >Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2005 21:33:46 -0500 >From: Jorg Waltje <[log in to unmask]> >Reply-To: Jorg Waltje <[log in to unmask]> >To: Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: Streaming QT: text tracks (!) >In-Reply-To: <[log in to unmask]> >References: <[log in to unmask]> Dear Listlers: Another streaming problem encountered by yours truly: We have been using $E3Textation$E4 to subtitle some Quicktime files of German clips. We serve them over an OS X streaming server. When we add the text track (subtitle) however, it does not show up, although audio/video streams fine. When I try to redo the whole file so that the text track has a hinted track added to it, the whole file will not play. Que pasa?? It runs just fine from the computer HD -- Has anyone tried out QT with text tracks over a streaming server, please come to my rescue. Best regards, Jorg --------------------- Dr. Jorg Waltje Associate Professor Director LRC Ohio University Gordy Hall 17 D Athens, Ohio 45701 (USA) Ph: (740) 593-2748 Fax: (740) 593-0729 --------------------- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Samantha Earp Head, Foreign Language Instructional Technology Support Center for Instructional Technology Box 90198 - 223A Perkins Library Duke University Durham, NC 27708 919.660.5945 - [log in to unmask] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ *********************************************** LLTI is a service of IALLT, the International Association for Language Learning, and The Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning (http://consortium.dartmouth.edu). Join IALLT at http://iallt.org. Otmar Foelsche, LLTI-Editor ([log in to unmask]) ***********************************************