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Re: synchronized captioning for windows media file - intermittently working

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From: Andrew Kirkpatrick
Date: Jul 12, 2004 9:54AM

> Does anyone know what is needed on the web server to get captioning to
> function properly? I have followed the tutorial on the webaim site
> (http://www.webaim.org/techniques/captions/windows/) however I am unable
> to get it work consistently. The web server is Apache running on Linux.
> I have set the proper mime types for the asx/asf file as well as for the
> sami/smil file types. However the captioning doesn't seem to be working
> consistently. The video plays fine. To view it you can go to:

I've found that the captions can't be on the streaming server - if you are
streaming the video, try putting the captions on http.

You can have everything on an http server, but use full urls for both the
video and the caption files.
AWK

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