On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 9:34 AM, Michael Vogt <[email protected]> wrote: > B1;2802;0cOn Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 08:05:34PM +0000, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Hi folks > Hi Matthew! > >> Since some work has started on allowing embedded videos in USC, I've >> started writing up the various use cases we need to consider -- >> specifying the language a video is in, reporting a video as >> inappropriate, copying video links to share elsewhere, and so on. >> <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwareCenter/Videos> > > Thanks, that looks really good! You raise a lot of important > points. Once we progressed a bit further, we should probably also post > some initial guidelines for video upload contributions, e.g. recommend > software to use, length, if/how subtitles can be done and if/how they > can be translated. A bit like the guidelines page for reviews (but > probably a bit more elaborate). > > I imagine that we will initially re-use a lot of the same > policies/practises as for the screenshots and we will most likely use > a hacked up version of debshoots (the same softare/server we currently > use for the screenshots) for the initial version. > > For the player UI we will initially have to use what we are offered by > the hoster (e.g. youtube). I'm not sure how well e.g. subtitles are > supported, but it would be great if someone would do a bit of research > on this.
Universal subtitles is a great way to do this in a platform independent way: http://www.universalsubtitles.org/en/ It grew out of a Mozilla project :-) -- Michael Nelson Canonical Ltd. +49 176 491 53481 (mob) [email protected] IRC nick: noodles (noodles775 on Freenode) Ubuntu - Linux for human beings | www.ubuntu.com | www.canonical.com _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~software-store-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~software-store-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
