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From: Léonie Watson
Date: Jun 25, 2013 1:39AM

Loretta Guarino Reid wrote:
"If a YouTube video has captions, there will be a searchable transcript
available on the watch page. (Note that this is not available if the video
has been embedded in another page.)"

The media player from Nomensa solves this problem. It enables a locally
stored captions file to be synchronised with content pulled in from YouTube
or Vimeo. Unfortunately it doesn't use the same captions format as YouTube
though.
http://www.github.com/nomensa

Léonie.

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