Fair enough. :-) Thought it worth pointing out, in case you hadn't considered it yet. I won't be at debconf unfortunately. But do make a video of your setup and the app!
Silvia. On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 12:14 PM, Dafydd Harries <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Silvia, > > Thanks for the link! This is the sort of usage we're envisioning for our > tools. > > TextTrack/WebVTT seems promising, but browser support seems a little > lacking, > which makes me wonder how much it can do for us right now. Specifically, > Firefox doesn't seem to support it, and our current plans are to support > Chrom{e,ium} and Firefox.[0] > > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=629350 > https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/HTML/WebVTT > https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/HTML/Element/track > > That said, WebVTT seems useful as a data model and maybe even as an > internal > representation for our work. Indeed, some of our previous projects have > used > the similar SRT format for subtitles and annotations. > > So I think we'll be rendering subtitles ourselves for the time being and > switching to <track> when it's a little better supported. > > Daf > > P.S. Will you be at Debconf? I'd love to get your feedback on how this > project > turns out in person. > > [0] Our reasoning is that they're the most popular free software browsers > and > often lead in supporting useful new technology, and that supporting > both > encourages us to only use new technology that is likely to see > adoption > in the future (compare the current situation with the > incompatible/non-standard web audio APIs). > > On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 06:58:10PM +1000, Silvia Pfeiffer wrote: > > Can I suggest you use the TextTrack API to synchronize the video with > the text? > > You can do something clever like > > > http://www.viralblog.com/social-tv/swedish-radio-launches-cool-second-screen-campaign/ > > with the display of things. > > > > Cheers, > > Silvia. > > > > On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 10:00 PM, > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2013 13:46:09 -0400 > > > From: Dafydd Harries <[email protected]> > > > To: [email protected] > > > Cc: [email protected] > > > Subject: [Debconf-video] video annotations for DebConf13 > > > Message-ID: <20130408174609.GG31426@err> > > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > > > > > Hi DebConf video team, > > > > > > We are working on a live annotation interface for streaming video, > > > and want to bring it to bear on hacker conference videos. > > > The idea is that it lets viewers streaming the conference share notes > as > > > talks are happening (through web or IRC), integrates with a similar > "video on demand" > > > interface including the same annotations and allowing more refined > > > tagging, and even allows some form of basic editing for resynthesizing > out of > > > all of the videos. > > > > > > We'll be testing a system this summer at Ohm, the Dutch hacker camp, > > > and were thinking we could bring it to DebConf too. > > > > > > Our system will not require extensive hardware. > > > A single desktop will take encoded streams as input over the local > network > > > and expose chunked streamdumps with a one- or two-minute "tape" delay > > > through a web interface. Ideally we can make the service simultaneously > > > available both locally and on teh intarwebz!!11![1] > > > > > > All of our tools and development[2] are (A)GPL, and ideally would be > packaged > > > for Debian in advance of DebConf. > > > > > > Is there any interest? > > > > > > daf & rmo > > > > > > [1] Similar to > https://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/File:Network-debconf12.png > > > [2] http://readmes.numm.org/interlace3/ >
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