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Re: synchronized captioning for windows media file - intermittently working

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From: Ho Ro
Date: Jul 13, 2004 9:20AM

Thanks Andrew! I agree it's a very large file to download - the video
is part of an interactive CD. That's strange that it works on a WMP 8
player. I've been testing with WMP 9 and have had no luck. Are there
any known workarounds to get it to play on all the players?

What is the recommended solution? I've talked to a few folks and they
recommended using Flash instead. Is that a better solution to ensure
accessibility for the majority?

Andrew thanks again for the information.

Thanks!

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From: andrew_kirkpatrick [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ]
Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2004 10:30 AM
To: WebAIM Discussion List
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] synchronized captioning for windows media file -
intermittently working



> Thanks Andrew. I tried using the full urls but it still doesn't seem
> to be sending the sami file with the video file.

I'm seeing text on WMP 8 on Windows XP machine and on WMP 7.1 on OSX.

This would be a lot easier to test with a file that wasn't so huge.
242Mbps for a video that is several minutes in length is a lot to expect
end-users to download...

AWK

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