I'm not sure I'm fully following this discussion, so apologies if this has already been covered.
It sounds like we might need to step back a little bit and consider the process from the user's perspective, thinking about how we want it to be designed, rather than how it currently works technically. I imagine a workflow that goes something like this: * A user has a video that they want to include in their WordPress blog/site * They use our plugin to either: a) upload the file directly (like, say, if they made the movie themselves in iMovie) b) point us to a video that's already on YouTube * If it's a YouTube video, our plugin checks Amara to see if there are already captions for it * If there aren't, or if the video is being uploaded by the user, it prompts them to caption it using Amara * There might be, if necessary, some "advanced options" where a user can choose to upload or link to a pre-authored caption file; but I suspect this isn't a typical use case Does this seem about right? Colin --- Colin Clark http://fluidproject.org On 2013-01-24, at 12:15 PM, "Cheetham, Anastasia" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I have listed the major pieces of functionality on this wiki page: >> http://wiki.fluidproject.org/display/fluid/%28Floe%29+Video+Player+Wordpress+Plugin+Exploration > > I've updated the wiki page with a bit more specificity about the > functionality. > > > Regarding your questions: > >> 1. Is any other metadata information required? i.e. author, description / >> summary, primary language, etc? > > At this time, no other information is supported. > > >> 2. Are any of the fields mandatory? I assume the Video URL and format are >> the only required fields? > > At least one videoUrl/format combination is mandatory. Any additional ones > are optional. > > Captions and transcripts are not mandatory, however, if they are added, all > information for the file is mandatory: url-or-name, format and language > > >> 3. How common is the Amara use case for either Transcript or Captions? > > I think that remains to be seen :-) > > >> 4. Can JSONcc or VTT resources be loaded from an URL? > > Not at this time, due to cross-site scripting restrictions. > > >> 5. Can the type of caption / transcript be detected given an URL? > > I suspect not, given that we can't count on what people will name their files. > > >> 6. Can an Amara transcript or Amara caption be uploaded locally or must it >> always be specified with an URL? > > AFAIK, it must be an URL. > > Amara is a service that hosts captions for videos. In this case, the URL is > actually the URL of a video that has Amara captions on the Amara site. Even > if it happened to be uploaded to the local WordPress instance, the Amara > captions would have to be referenced using the full URL of the > WordPress-hosted video; that's just how Amara works. > > The URL will not necessarily be the same as one of the video urls: it will > include a language code (since it refers to a specific language of caption). > For example (taken from our demo), if the original video is a youtube video > http://www.youtube.com/v/_VxQEPw1x9E > Amara might host two captions, referenced using these urls: > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VxQEPw1x9E&language=en > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VxQEPw1x9E&language=fr _______________________________________________________ fluid-work mailing list - [email protected] To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://lists.idrc.ocad.ca/mailman/listinfo/fluid-work
