Thank you Mariano. This will be useful. Massimo
On Thursday, 6 December 2012 16:01:26 UTC-6, Mariano Reingart wrote: > > This should be useful for the web2py-conference: > > For PyCon Argentina 2012 videos I made a tentative site to do the > "post-production" in a colaborative way, mixing video, sllides > (images), subtitles and footnotes, adding more "interactivity". > Example at: > > http://ar.pycon.org/video2py > > IMPORTANT: it is just a proof-of -concept, videos nor slides nor > subtitles match, they are just synchronized to show the capabilities > (it can also be further extended to include google maps, wikipedia > pages, facebook or twitter interaction, etc.). > You can see an screenshot here: > http://ar.pycon.org/video2py/static/images/screenshot.png > > The app is very simple, and basically it uses the Mozilla Popcorn.js > library to handle HTML5 video: > > http://popcornjs.org/ > > You can see the source code at: > > https://code.google.com/p/video2py/ > > I've coded the models and CRUD for videos, slides, subtitules, but it > still misses: > > - a simple method for sync slides > - a simple method to write down and sync subtitles > > Mi idea is make it interactive: at the same time that the video is > playing, the user can choose the slide or write the subtitle.. > It can use Popcorn.currentTime() to get initial and final times, and > than make a ajax call to save that data. > > http://popcornjs.org/popcorn-docs/media-methods/#currentTime > http://popcornjs.org/popcorn-docs/events/ > > For example, we can show the slides with a "next" button, when > pressed, it stores the slide timing so then we can do the slideshow > automátically. > > For the subtitles, it is a little bit more complicated, because we > should detect the last pause (initial time), enable a textbox, and > save it when play button is presed again. (they may not synchonize > exactly with the voice in a first attemp, but I think it is a good > aproximation) > You can take a look something similar at: > http://www.universalsubtitles.org/ > (BTW, I prefer a web2py app, but popcorn.js also suports .SRT playback) > > I think this app could be important to enhance collaboration and > translation of videos, and is a good help for smaller conferences that > don't have resources (money nor collaborators, like PyCon Argentina > 2012) to do the final edition process. > > What do you think? > > (sorry if this has been proposed before, I didn't have time to read > all the mails) > > Best regards, > > Mariano Reingart > http://www.sistemasagiles.com.ar > http://reingart.blogspot.com > --
